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SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS.
Edited by J. HORSFALL TURNER,
Idel, Bradford.
Vol. I.
firtnt** for *|p (Bbitov
By T. Harrison, Queen Street, Bingley.
1888.
(THE NEW YORK
PUBMCUBRA.RY
'63795
ASTO*, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATION*'
1897.
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7
PAGE.
J. M. W. Turner - 1,
Bretton Hall Ballad 1, 191.
Yorkshire M.P's., 1758 5.
St. John of Beverley - 6.
— Extinct Yorkshire Magazines 7.
Stanbury Quaker Register 9.
Latter Day ' Sinner ' - 15.
Akroyd Scholarship - 16.
Akroyd'sWiU - - 18.
Fire of London - - 19.
Refusing Knighthood - 19.
M.Ps. for York, 1718-1882 20.
Ripley Memorial Slabs 28.
W. Riding Sessions Rolls,
(numerous topics) 28,47,78,
188, 288.
Yorkshire Church Livings 29.
Quakerism in Sedbergh 29.
York Cattle Fairs - 82.
Batley Grammar School 87.
John Berry's Journal,
(numerous topics) - 89.
Cheap Trips - - 44.
Bullhouse - - 45.
Bullhouse Chapel - 46.
'; Yorkshire Pottery 52,119,285.
Village Feasts - - 56.
Fylfot ... 66.
Baildon - - 64,94.
„ Darton Registers - 64.
Fulneck - - 65.
Reins of land - - 68.
High Sunderland - - 68.
Woolcombers - - 77.
•*/ Wentworth's Letter, 1497 78.
Ardsley Notes - - 79.
Kirklees Nunnery 82,97.
Eldwick Stone Circle - 105.
Ackworth Parish Registers,
107,129,166.
Reptile Symbolism 118.
PAGE.
Muster Rolls - - 118.
Extinct Congregational
Colleges - - 124.
Sir John Hotham - 129.
York Mint 182,186,228.
Pontefract Shilling - 188.
Yorkshire Waterfalls and
Caves - - - 188.
King's Manor House, York 188
141.
- 142.
150, ass.
- 158.
- 159.
- 160.
- 161.
178.
178.
County Records
Assessment, 1584 -
Yorkshire Crosses
Holy Wells
Roman Altars
Halifax Gibbet Law
Merry Bauk
Wordsworth of Wadworth 161,
286
Grassington Schismatics
Fors Abbey
Dr. John Hall's MSS.
[Nonconformist History]
Plague of Mirfield
Ledgard and Shepley
Bridges
Briefs - 191,198,284
Ducking Stool at Mirfield 195
Rev. J. Ismay's Diary,
(numerous topics) - 196
History of Mirfield, 1755 201
Blount's Yorkshire Tenures,
211, 228
Saltaire - - - 224
Yorkshire Coins - 226
Washburn Place Names 282
Wakefield, Pontefract,
Knaresborough, and
Tickhill Manors
Halifax Militia
Silkstone Registers
175.
187.
187.
288.
285.
286.
Indexes
241, 256.
Scaleber Force
.
. . .
.
PAGE.
188.'
Saltaire
224.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Bretton Hall
2.
Keyingham Stump
-
158.
Ripley Slabs
28.
Ravenspurn Cross
-
154.
Bullhouse Chapel
46.
Keyingham Cross
-
155.
Fylfot, (82 figures) 57, 64.
Swine Cross
-
155.
Fulneck
65.
Hornsea Cross
-
155.
High Sunderland
69.
Brandsburton Cross
-
156.
Baildon Hall
95.
Leven Cross
-
157.
Heckmondwike Academy
126.
Nunkeeling Cross
-
157.
Rev. James Scott
127.
Atwick Cross
-
157.
Sir John Hotham
181.
Stainland Holywell
-
158.
Edward VI's. Coins (4)
182.
Roman Altar, Slack
-
159.
Pontefract Coin
188.
Roman Altar, Greetland
159.
Thornton Force
184.
Sir Titus Salt
-
224.
Easegill Force
186.
Saltaire Congregational
Ingle borough Cave
187.
Church
-
225.
Stainland Cross
150.
Ulf s Arms
.
280.
Beverley Frithstool
152.
Ulfs Horn
.
281.
Bradford Cross
158.
Bradford Horn -
-
281.
[orfcsjjire |totcs wto (Sutras.
J. M. W. Tubner. " There was no County in England to which
Turner was so much attached as Yorkshire. . , It was here
on the Wolds, and beside the banks of the Wharfe, that he first
(after Wales) saw really wild scenery. ... He loved it
because he had gathered in its ruined Abbeys the chief treasures
of his * Liber/ and because there he found the past and pre-
sent times in the most striking juxtaposition. . . • Mr.
Buskin says, and we cannot quote a higher authority, — ' The
scenery, whose influence I can trace most definitely throughout
his Works, varied as they are, is that of Yorkshire.' " — Thorn-
bury's Life of Turner.
Vitus on a fUmarkable Ciraxmstanr*
CONNECTED WITH BRETTON HALL, NEAR BARNSLEY.
[From an undated Broadside, once very popular, and taken for
fact. Fortunately for their credit they are simply styled
Lines.]
At Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, known so well,
Sir William Wentworth Blackett once did dwell ;
That mansion was his own, — there, with his bride,
In pomp and splendour, he did once reside ;
Yet, in the midst of all that he possessed,
A rambling mind disturb'd Sir William's breast.
His lady and his home he left behind, —
Says he, * The end of this wide world I'll find ;
The earth's extensive, but you may depend on 't,
Before e'er I return I'll find the end on 't.
So he embark'd on board a ship we find,
And, sailing, left her ladyship behind,
Who, oft in sorrow did his absence mourn,
And, sighing said, ' 0 that he would return,
For be his voyage rough or smooth at sea,
It is a cruel, bitter blast to me.'
8ir William, he rolls on through winds and waves ;
Undaunted, he all kinds of weather braves ;
Nor his strange project ever relinquish'd he,
Till one and twenty years he'd been at sea ;
Y.N.Q. B
YORKSHIRE NOTE8 AND QUERIES.
Then, p'rhaps he thought, ' Good lack the world is round,
The end is nowhere, so it can't be found ;
And as I'm weary of this wild-goose chase,
At home again, ere long, I'll show my face.'
Then off he set, but little was aware
What would transpire on his arrival there :
For, while Sir William roved, as here express'd,
Another • Sir ' his lady thus address'd : —
* Sir William *s gone, ne'er to return again,
Fast this world's end, which long he sought in vain ;
There's not a doubt he's found the end of life.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
But don't be troubled, yon shall be my wife.'
She listened, till at length she gave consent.
And straightway, then, to church this couple went.
Sir William does about this "wedding hear,
As he unto his journey's end draws near ;
And thus, he does within his mind reflect —
' This sly usurper I shall now detect ;
Soon shall he know* (though much against his will)
At Bretton Hall I have dominion still.
Those woods and fertile fields my own I call,
With this magnificent, this splendid hall ;
And now I come to claim them as my own,
Though by my dress not from a beggar known,
My clothes are turned to rags ; and, by the weather,
My skin is tann'd till it resembles leather ;
So now I'll act the beggar, bold and rude,
And, at this wedding boldly I'll intrude ;
And though, admittance I may be denied,
I'll rob the merry bridegroom of his bride.1
Then at his own hall door one rap he gave,
Resolved the inmate's charity to crave ;
So he presented his request, 'tis said,
And they presented him a crust of bread !
The bread he took, and then, to their surprise,
He ask'd the servants for some beer likewise.
' No, no,' said they ' beer we shall give you none,
Tou saucy, drunken vagabond, begone ! '
At length (with much ado) some beer he got,
And quickly he returned the empty pot ;
And straightway then into the hall went he,
And said, he wished her ladyship to see.
* You can by no means see her,' answered they,
' She is newly married ! 'tis her wedding day.'
* Married ! ' die feigned beggarman replied,
1 Then I'll not go till I have seen the bride,'
Then towards the dining-room his course he bent ;
The servants quick pursued with one consent,
And seised him, with intent to turn liim out.
4 Come back, you villain ; what are you about ? '
* About my business, to be sure,' quoth he ;
' The room I'll enter and the bride I'll see :
'We'll see you out of doors,' the servants said!
And now of course, a clam'rous din they made.
Just then, the bride, on hearing such a clatter,
Open'd the door to see what was the matter.
This noble beggar, thus obtained a sight
Of her who erstwhile was his heart's delight !
He viewed her in her nuptial garments dress'd,
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
And did of her a glass of wine request,
Which she denied — who little did suppose
The ragged stranger was her wealthy spouse.
Then straight into the dining room he went,
And down he sat among the guests, content.
Says he, * You'll grant me my request, I know ;
A glass of wine I'll have before I go.'
The bride, at length, complied with his request,
Thus thinking to dispatch their ragged guest,
But when he did this glass of wine obtain,
He drank and filled, and drank and filled again.
The guests, astonished and disgusted, view'd,
Whilst he proceeded to be far more rude ;
Around the bride's fair neck he threw his arm,
And gave a kiss, which did her much alarm/
On him she frown'd, and threaten'd him with law,
Says he, ( Your threats I value not a straw ;
My conduct to reprove is all in vain,
For what I've done I mean to do again.
Madam, your bridegroom's in an awkward case,
This night I do intend to take his place.
And, while upon her countenance he pores,
The guests agree to kick him out of doors.
1 The deuce is in the beggarman,' they cried ;
1 He means to either beg or steal the bride.'
•No, no,' says he, « I mean to claim her as my own.'
He smil'd, and then he did himself make known ;
Saying, ' William Wentworth Blackett is my name.
For my long absence I am much to blame ;
But safe and sound I have returned at last,
So let's forgive each other all that's past.'
The bride did her first bridegroom recognize,
With joy transported, to his arms she flies :
And, whilst they each other tenderly kiss,
The disappointed bridegroom they dismiss ;
Who inwardly did his hard case lament,
Hung down his head, and out of doors he went.
* I'm robb'd of this fair jewel, now,' thinks he ;
* How cruel is this tender spouse to me ! '
Awhile he scratched his head, then heaved a sigh :
Then eyed the hall again, and wiped his eye.
Sir WiUiam freely did forgive his wife ;
They lived together till the end of life.
My honest story I must now conclude ;
Which may, by some, be as a fiction view'd ;
But, Sirs, the boots in which Sir William went,
Are kept in memory of that event ;
The very hat he wore, preserved has been
At Bretton Hall — where they may yet be seen.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 5
YORKSHIRE M.Ps. in 1758. Ebor, 30 Menders.
County. — Rt. Hon. Sir Conyers D'Arcy, of Aske, Privy Coun.
Served in six parliaments. [Not necessarily for same consti-
tuency.] Rt. Hon. Henry Pleydei Dawney, Vise. Downe, in
Ireland; Cowick, Yorkshire; F.R.S. ; chosen in April, 1750, in
the room of Sir Miles Stapylton , who was made a Commissioner
of the Customs.
York. — William Thornton, of Cattal, Esq. George Fox, of
Bramham Park, Esq., and of East Horsley, in Surrey. Served
in three parliaments.
Kingston-upon-Hull. — Rt. Hon. Lord Robert Manners, half-
brother to the Duke of Rutland, Col. of a Regiment of Foot,
Lieut. Gov. &c, of Walcot, Lincolnshire. Thomas Carter, of
Redbourn, co. Lincoln, Esq.
Knabesborough. — Sir Henry Slingsby, of Red House, Bart.
Served in six parliaments. Hon. Richard Arundel, of Allerton
Mauleverer, Esq., F.R.S., Treasurer of His Majesty's Chamber,
and Clerk of the Pipe in H. Maj. Exchequer for life. Served
in six parliaments.
Scarborough. — Edwin Lascelles, Esq., (son to Henry Las-
celles, Member for Northallerton), of Gawthorpe Hall. Served
in two parliaments. Roger Handasyd, of Gaynes Hall, co. Hunt.,
Esq., Lt. Gen. and Col. of a Regiment of Foot. Served in four
parliaments.
Ripon. — William Aislabie, of Studley Park, Esq., one of the
Auditors of the Imprest for Life, and Principal Registrar of the
the Archbp's. Consistory Court at York. Served in six parlia-
ments. Sir Charles Vernon, of Famham, Surrey, Kent.
Served in three parliaments.
Richmond. — John Yorke, of Richmond, Esq. Rt. Hon.
William Kerr, Earl of Ancram, son and heir to Marquis of
Lothian, chosen in the room of Sir Conyers D'Arcy, who made
his election for the County.
Heddon. — Luke Robinson, Esq., Counsellor-at-Law. Two
parliaments. Sir John Savile, of Methley, K.B., LL.D.
Boboughbridge. — Hon. Will. Murray, Esq., Solicitor Gen-
eral. Uncle to Lord Visct. Stormont. Two parliaments.
Hon. George Monson Watson, Esq., brother to Lord Monson,
chosen in April, 1750, in the room of the Earl of Dalkeith,
deceased.
Malton. — Hon. Henry Finch, Esq., youngest brother to the
Earl of Winchelsea, Surveyor General of His Majs. Board of
Works, F.R.8. Served five parliaments. John Mostyn, Esq.,
Col. in Foot-Guards, Groom of the Bedchamber to His Majesty,
6 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
brother to Sir Thomas Mostyn, Member for Flintshire. Served
two parliaments.
Thibsk. — Thomas Frankland, co. Backs, Esq., Capt. in Navy.
Served two parliaments. Bt. Hon. Wm. Monkton, Lord Visct.
Galway, Beceiver-General of H. M's. Fee-farm Bents in the
six Northern Counties, before in this parliament for Pontefract,
and chosen for Thirsk in the room of Frederick Frankland,
Esq., made a Commissioner of the Bevenue in Ireland, in
March, 1749.
Aldbobough. — Andrew Wilkinson, of Borougnbridge, Esq.,
Storekeeper of the Ordnance. Three parliaments. Nathaniel
Newnham, Jan., Esq., co. Sussex, brother to the Member for
Queenborough. Served two parliaments.
Beverley. — Charles Pelham, Esq., co. Lincoln. Served in
five parliaments. Sir Wm. Codrington, of Dodington, co.
Gloucester, Bart.
Nobthallebton. — Henry Peirse, of Bedal, Esq. Five pari.
Daniel Lascelles, Esq., chosen in March, 1752, in the room of
his father, Henry Lascelles, Esq., who accepted a place.
Pontefbact. — George Morton Pitt, of Twickenham, Esq.
Served in three parliaments. Bobert Monckton, Esq., Col. of
a Beg. of Foot, chosen in November, 1751, in the room of his
father John Vise. Galway, who was chosen in Dec. 1748, in the
room of his son William, now Vise. Galway, who accepted a
place, and was re-chosen for Thirsk.
Thos. Lister, of Gisburne Park, Esq., was one of the Mem-
bers for Clithero. Edward Wortley, of Wortley Hall, sen.,
Esq., sat for Peterborough. John Hill, of Thornton, near
Malton, Esq., Governor of Scarborough Castle, F.B.S., repre-
sented Higham-Ferrers. Sir Lionel Pilkington, of Stainley,
Bart., had sat for Horsham from December, 1748, in the room
of Charles Ingram, senr., Esq., deceased. Charles Ingram,
Esq., Nephew to Lord Yisct. Irwin, was the other Member for
Horsham. Sir John Bamsden, of Byram, near Ferrybridge,
Bart., was a Member for Appleby. Thomas Duncombe, of
Duncombe Park, Esq., became M.P. for Down ton in April,
1751.
Some of the places then represented in Parliament are mere
hamlets, and the choice of members was frequently vested in
one family. The Nobility had a great number of seats at their
disposal. Gband Old Man.
Bevulby and its Saint. — "Upon the taking up of a thick
marble stone, lying in the middle of the choire of Beverley, in
Yorkshire, neare the entranoe into the choire, was found under
Y0BK8HIRE NOTE8 AND QUERIE8. 7
it a vault of squared free-stone, five foot in length, two foot in
breadth at the head, and one foot and a half at the foot. In
this vault was discovered a sheet of lead, four foot in length,
containing the dftst of St. John of Beverley, as also six beades,
three of which were cornelian, the other crumbled to dust.
There were also in it 8 great brass pins, and 4 iron nayles.
Upon this sheet of lead was fixed a plate of lead, whereon was
this following inscription, a copie of which was sent to A. W.
Anno ab incarnatione Domini mclxxxviii (1188), combusta fuit
iuec ecclesia, in mense Stpt, in sequenti nocte post Festum Sancti
Mattiuri Ajtosttdi, et in anno vcxcvn. (1197), vi Id. Martii, facta
fiat Inqumtii Heliquutrum Bead Johannu in hoc loco, et inrenta
*unt httc <Huta in orienUili parte Sepulchri, et hie recondita, et pulvi*
cemento mijrtus ibidem inventus <C reconditm.
A box of lead, about 7 inches in length, six inches broad,
and five in height, did lay athwart the plate of lead. In this
box were divers pieces of bones mixt with dust, yielding a sweet
smell. Sep. 14, 1664."— Life of Ant. a Wood. The * sweet
smell ' reminds us of a Yorkshireman's story. An antiquary
had carefully preserved the ashes of his grandfather in a small
urn on the mantel-piece, but, to his consternation, a rude
Torkshireman, who took a fancy to this snuff, ' snooked' all the
precious dust up.
Extinct Yobkshibe Magazines. — Just a century ago the first
Yorkshire Magazine was started. It consisted of thirty-two
pages, monthly, 8vo., in double columns. No. 1, " The York-
shire Magazine for January, 1786," opens with a letter to the
Editors from E. (of York), who writes — "I have sometimes
thought it a matter of surprize, that a publication of the above
kind has never yet been attempted here. The extensiveness of
the County of York, its population, the celebrity of its capital,
its distance from the Metropolis, are all considerations favour-
ing the attempt, and leave little room to fear its being success-
ful. A similar work published at Edinburgh, and continued
for some time ; and another lately begun at Newcastle, are the
only attempts of the kind, that I know of, out of London.
Magazines are, especially at this day, read with avidity, parti-
cularly by young people." Notwithstanding this favourable
opening "The Yorkshire Magazine, or Universal Repository
of Arts, Sciences, and various other branches of Polite Litera-
ture, for the Year 1786," as the engraved title reads, ran only
one year. The last three lines of the Preface to this Sixpenny
Magazine we venture to appropriate for our venture of 1886 :
M 77m* aid of the curious and candid is earnestly solicited, as every
article of instruction, information, and entertainment, which comes
recommended by merit r wilt ahcays demand a place."
S YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
A generation passes away, and then another attempt is made
nnder the style — "Northern Star, or, Yorkshire Magazine,"
No. 1, July, 1817. This was a venture of eighty pages monthly,
and emanated from Sheffield. This was, in every sense, greatly
superior to its predecessor, and is very highly valued for its
intrinsic worth now, and must have commanded admiration
then. It was 'embellished,' like its forerunner, but in a much
superior style, and with more attractive subjects. From the
first number we cull a short paragraph, and would ask our
Readers' favours in like manner : There are very fete toicns which
do not 2>088e*8 a something peculiar to themselres. They hare eitlter
some interesting piece of antiquity; some modern edifice; some
relit fious estttblishment ; some foundation or chanty school ; or they
possess some character, which either is, or has been, remarkable for its
eccentricity, its literature, its patriotism, or some other quality, by
which it stands distinguished from the general mass of inhabitants.
For notices of such singularities either in places or in jtersons, as well
as for the account of tlie vegetable or mineral productiotis, — the agri-
culture or manufactures of any jtarish or district ; the Editors must
solicit the communications of tlteir Fiiends" The title page runs:
" The Northern Star, or, Yorkshire Magazine : a Monthly and
permanent Register of the Statistics, Literature, Biography,
Arts, Commerce and Manufactures of Yorkshire, and the
adjoining Counties." This valuable work ran to a third, or
part of a fourth volume, that is, lived nearly two years, and,
alas ! died of heart-disease.
Nearly two generations pass away, and to the family mem-
orial tablet must be added the record of the birth and death of
the third child, — "The Yorkshire Magazine," or as the full
title reads "The Yorkshire Magazine, a Monthly Literary
Journal;" bora October, 1871, and ushered into the world
by The Yorkshire literary Union, Limited. Its favourite
flower was the White Rose, which even blossomed at Christmas.
Bradford was its home, and there it struggled on until June,
1875, when No. 89, or No. 8 of the fourth volume proved its
death-stroke. The main feature of this child's character was
story-telling, though many valuable archaeological, biblio-
graphical, biographical apd poetical contributions were promin-
ent : embellishments very scarce.
Eight years passed by, and a fourth " Yorkshire Magazine "
was anounced, but this was almost strangled at its birth, for
the title had been transferred to a Bradford printer, who en-
closed about a dozen pages of London matter in a quarto cover,
endorsed " Yorkshire Magazine." The true child was born in
December, 1888, and bore the name "Yorkshire Illustrated
Monthly.'1 It lived until August, 1884, and then died of teeth-
ing in the town of Bradford, where the unhappy-titled London-
Yorkshire (penny) Magazine still lingers. The Editor hereof
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 9
issued The Isocal Magazine about 1871, which lived two full
months, and cost 'a bonny penny.' There has been great
mortality amongst Yorkshire Serials, especially of late. " The
Yorkshire Wonderful Magazine, or Notes from my Scrap Book,"
(Bradford again !) opened its pages — like our own — to
Archaeology, Antiquities, Apparitions, and Amulets.
B ibliography, Biography, and Ballads.
C uriosities, Country Customs, and Charms.
D ialects, Dark Deeds in History, and Deeds of Daring.
E pitaphs, Eccentric Characters, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes.
Folk Lore, Fearful Crimes, Famous Men and Women.
G arlands, Garters, Great Battles, Great Sieges, Inventions.
H istorical Facts, Heathen Mythology, and Humorous Sketches.
I nteresting Truths, Impostors, and Impositions.
J okes of Great Men, Jests. and Jesters.
K ings, King's Evil, Knaves, and Knavery.
L ocal Legends and Local History.
M ysteries, Mutinies, Murders, and Marriage Customs.
N ature and Art, Naval and Military Heroes.
Origins, Old Pedigrees, Old Coins, and Belies.
P opular Tumults, Proverbs, Plays, Players, and Pestilences.
Queer, Quaint, and Quiet Men and Women, Quacks, and
Quackery.
Rhymes, Becords, Bings, Boman Belies, Riots, and Rebellions.
S uperstition, State Secrets, Sages, Saints, and Scamps.
Traditions, Topography, Topical, Trophies, Tempests, and
Tumults.
Unabolished Laws, Uncaught Scamps, Undaunted Heroes,
and Unmerciful \ Uains.
Visions, Verdicts, Veterans, Villainy Unpunished, Valour Un-
rewarded, and Valorous Deeds.
W eather Wisdom, Wise Sayings, Wills, Witches, and Witch-
craft.
X cellent Traits in Character.
Yorkshire Customs, Yorkshire Belies, Nature, and Art.
Zoography, Zoology, and Zoophytes/'
With such formidable brain-power and a small stomach there
is no wonder that it died with the fifth issue, having the word
" Monthly " substituted for " Wonderful."
To be continued.
Stanbttoy Quaker Register, ( Haworth). Pages 1 & 2 lost,
and Title page damaged. Page 8. The birth of Joseph Turner
the son of Jonas Turner the : 80 : 10 : month Jan. 1668
The birth of Johnathan Smith the Sonn of Joseph Smith
the : 28 : of the : 12 : month in the year 1668
10 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The birth of Annah Tayler the donghter of John Tayler the :
4 : day of the : 9 : month in the year 167 —
The birth of Joshua Crabtre the son of Richard Crabtre the
: 15 : day of the : 6 : month in the year 1682
The birth of Nathan Clayton the sone of Nathan Clayton
half an hour past Twelve a Clock in the night Seqen befor the
: 16 : day of the : 11 : month in the year 1685.
4 k 5 missing. On page 6 — The birth of Richard Crabtre
the son of Richard Crabtre the : 20 : day : 6 : month in the
year 1692 (This is the last entry of births.)
GDonsartung* ilj* JEarriag* of tlje ptopl* of
ill* lorfc at $ta|&blrarg.
fforasmuch as it hath bene Appearantly manefest before vs this
day Who are here met together at the house of Joseph Smiths
in Standbury to Wait vpon the lord to be tought of him in the
pish of haWorth k County of york that Jonas Turner of Lou-
denden in the pish of Halifax k County of Yorke hath taken to
Wife Grace Heaton the doughter of Nathan Heaton of Stan-
dbury in the pish of Haworth k above Said County before vs k
in our prsence as we are eye Witteneses whose names are vnder
Written this : 80 : day of the : 2 : month in the year of our
lord : 16G5 :
JONAS SMITH JOSEPH SMITH
JOHN TAYLOR JOHN PIGHEL8
To all people to whome this prsent Writing shall Consarn
this may Certifie you that William Smith of Cloughbank in the
pish of Eighley k County of York husbandman this : 9 : day of
the : 8 : month in the year of our lord : 1679 : hath taken to
Wife Susan Smith, of Standbury Within the pish of Bradford
k County aforsaid Spinster before a lawfull assembley of people
at the house of Jonas Smiths of Standbury in the aforsaid
County the said William Smith k Susan Smith having publishd
the intents of this marrage seuerall times before according to
the order now vsed amongst Christeans Within this our Realmo
Afrinds k Relations of both pties being prsent k the thing
being done with their genarall Consent in Wittness where of
vnto the pties aboue mentiond haue joyntly put to their hands
the day k year aboue Written
-SMITH SMITH
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 11
On the back of p. 4, in one handwriting :
The Wittoeses ■ for William k Susan Smith
Jonas Smith John Smith
Susan Smith Ghristopr Smith
Sarah Smith Grace Smith
Ellin Smith Mary Taylor
John Pighells Thomas Taylor
John Clayton Thomas Pearson
John Brigg
Gonsarainge th* Stefmng* ©f tlft $topk of
®lj* Jtovb at JltanbimriJ
In the : 11 : month : 1661 :
The Constable haueinge a war ante to bringe in to the
Sessions such persons as meet together Contrary to the Lawes
of the nation which came not to their Chourch Soe Caled and
Soe by his Warrant apprehendes Christopher Smith John
Jessop Jonas Smith John Pighels John Clayton Bobart Clayton
William Clayton : Bobart Clayton William Clayton and being
brought before the Justises at the Sessions at Wakefield and
the oth of aleagense tendered to them and they Could not
Sweare for Consience sake was Comitted to the gaile at Yorke
and pute in amongest to felons because they Could not hire
Bewmes and beinge soe thronge that they Could not lye downe
all at once nor not haveinge any bedes for : 8 : nightes together
and then the gailor beinge trubled Bemoued them into better
Bomes and soe Bemained prisonars : 18 : weekes and soe being
Caled before the Judge and Bequired to obey the Kings Lawes
and goe to there Church and answers beinge made that they
should obey all Bightons laws but unrightous lawes they Could
not for Consience Sake and soe haueing a debetation made to
appeare the next asises went to there outward habetations and
did appeare the next asises according to their debetation and
was Released.
I William Clayton being at a meeting at Padeham the : 20 :
day of the : 7 : month 1668 to worship the Lord in Spirit k in
truth k I having a Word of Exortation in my hart to speake
vnto the people there mett together k being speaking to the
people there Came the Constable k the Preest with others with
a Warrant from Colonal Nowell to apprehend some of us k the
prest Laid vilant hands on me k pulled me down k out of the
meeting and Soe pulled me into the towns street k I was by
the Constable and others brought before Thomas Brauddell k
Thomas Parker Called Justices of the peace for Befusinge to
Sweare was Comited to the goaill at Lonkaster vntill the next
12 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
quarter Sesions lioulden at preston in Aroonderness & being
brought before tbe Justises in the open Sessions & there being
accused to haue ben at an vnlawfull meeting k to have meet
prseumptously Contrary to the Laws of the nation & not being
permited to Reasan with them but the Justises being filled with
Wrath fined me in fiue pounds And for Refusing to pay the
fine was comited to prson for thre months & being put in the
hands of unreasonable bailifs to be Conuaied to the house of
Corection which for their fees & Drnking pulled of my Coat &
Coneied me to the house of Corection with out Coat & the
gouernar there put me in the Dungon fiue dayes & fiue nights
vntill modrat people of the towne procured my Liberty into
better Homes & thus like preist like Justise Hke bailiff like
gouerner all filled with wrath & conspired together to punish
the Inosent people of the Lord without moderation as men &
without mercy.
The Impropreator of bradforthdale demanded tith wooll &
lambe of Christopher Smith of Haworth for shepe that he had
& Christopher could not pay tithe for Consience Sake there
fore the Impropreator Sued him at the Exch. at London & by
a writ apprehended Chris. & Christopher was Comited to prisan
at Pontifract & put into the low prisan, & Remained prisan er
fue yeares
Comited : 8 : month 1664 Released : 9 month 1669
William Clayton being at a meeting at Halifax the : 22 : day of
the : 5 : month (1669) & there was Apprehended by the Constable
brought before the Justices for Refusing to take the oath of
Aleiganc wa6 Comited to prisan vntill the next quarter Sessions
houlden at Wakefeld & there was brought before the Justises in
the open Sessions & for Refusing to take the oath of Aleigance
was Comitted to prisan vntill the next quarter Sessions holden
at Wakefeld & there was brought before the Justises in the
open Sessions & there being a bill of Inditment drawn ageanst
the said William for being at an vnlawfull Asembley at Halifax
as aforsaid & is found by the Jurey & a fine of forty pounds
was Laid upon him & for not paying the said fine he was Com-
itted to prison where he Remained thre years & thre months in
all & then was Released be the Kings pardon & fiue hundred
more in the Nation of England dominion of Wals & town of
barweek in the : 9 : month in the year of our lord : 1672 :
Justis. Will Farrer Will batt frasis Whit Sanforth Neuell
Edward Copley & Will Louther Justises.
And Abraham Tillitson Constable & Thomas Akroid Churh-
war. did make distress of their goods & did take goods from
Jonas Smith to the vallew of forty shillings & from William
Clayton goods to the vallew of forty Shillings the : 14 : day of
the : 5 : month 1696 & made Saill of the goods & Returned the
oner plush to Jonas Smith Sixpence & to William Clayton
Seuen Shillings in goods.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 18
• Joseph Smith being at a meeting at Halifax the : 22 : day of
the : 5 : month & being apprehended by the Constable &
brought before the Justises & for Refusing to take the oath of
aleigens was Gomitted to prison vntill the next quarter Sessions
houlden at Wakefeld & there being brought before the Justises
in the open Sessions & for Refusing to take the oath of Aleig-
anee was Comitted to prison vntill the next quarter Sessions &
there at Wakefeld was brought before the Justises in the open
Sessions Was seet at liberty being near nine months prisoner
being Comitted by Will farrer Will Batt francis Whitt Edward
Copley & Sanforth Neuell Justises in the year of our lord : 1669
ffrance Pemberton prest of Bradforth demanded Small Tithes
of Jonas Smith & William Clayton for Twenty years past &
according to a lat act of parlament mad in the : 7 : year of the
Beigne of King William the : 8 : Called an act for the Spedy
Recouery of Small Tithes hath prseeded According to the act
to make his Compleant to Robert ffarrand & Beniaman Wade
Justises of the peace & they gave forth a warrant for said Jon.
Smith & Will Clayton to appear before them to shew their
Reasons why they would not pay Small Tithes & Will Clayton
did appear & shewed his Reasons why they could not pay Small
Tithes before the said Justises & Two prests & they did prseed
to giue forth a Warrant to the Constable & Church, of Haworth
to make destress of tbe goods of Jon. Smith & Will Clayton for
charges & all of Jon. Smith the sum of 11 5s & of Will Clayton
11. 10s lOd. See Eighley the ii
(RonsJLnunge &b* Suriall of ®b* Seab JUt
%\}t taring* plare JUt £ianbIrartT
The buriall of Sonn Still borne to Jonas Smiths the : 8 : day
of the : 8 : month in the yeare 1656
The buriall of John Jecorngill the : 28 : day of the : 6th :
month in the yeare 1659
The buriall of Michell Crosley the : 18 : day of the first
month in the year 1660
The buriall of Ellen Smith the doughter of Christopher
Smith the : 21th : day of the : 10 : month in the yeare 1660
The buriall of margrat Smith the Wife of Christopher Smith
the : 8th. day of the : 2 : month in the year 1661
The buriall of Robart Clayton the : 21 : day of the : 6 : month
in the yeare 1662
The buriall of Sarrah Crosley the : 29 : day of the : 7 : month
in the year 1664
The buriall of Susan Smith the wife of Jonas Smith the : 11
: day of the fourt month in the year 1681 [correct date.]
14 YOBKSHIRE NOTES AND QUEBIE8.
The burial of Mary Clayton the Wife of John Clayton the :
12 : day of the : 8 : month in the year 1667
TJie buriall of Ann Smith the wife of Joseph Smith the : 25
day of the : 8 : month in the year 1669
The buriall of Jonathan Smith the son of Joseph Smith the
: 11 : day of the : 8 : month in the year 1669
The buriall of Robert Smith the sonn of Jonas Smith the : 1
: day of the : 6 : month in the year 1678
The buriall of Joseph Smith of Standbury the : 22 : day of
the : 11 : month in the year 1676
The buriall of Martha Smith the : 28 : day of the : 12 :
monthe in the year 1681
The buriall of John Taylor the : 8 : day of the : 1 : month in
the year 1681
The buriall of Patieance Taylor the Wife of John Taylor the
; 9 : day of the : 1 : month in the year 1681
The buriall of Joseph Turnar the sone of Jonas Tttrnar the :
9 : day of the : 9 : month in the year 1688
The buriall of Grace Pighels the Wife of John Pighels the :
21 : day of the : 10 : month in the year 1685
The buriall of Grace Pighels the donghter of John Pighels
the : 18 : day of the : 11 : month in the year 1685
The buriall of John Pighels of Standbury the : 6 : day of the
: 2 : monthe in the year 1685
The buriall of Mary Clayton the doughter of John Clayton
the 20 day of the : 8 : month 1686
The buriall of Eline Bobart the Wif of Joseph Robart the
Twelft day of the ninth month in the year of our lord 1686
The buriall of Sarah Smith the doughter of Jonas Smith the
: 16 : day of the : 8 : month in the year 1688
The buriall of Nathan Clayton the Sixth day of the third
month in the year 1690
The buriall of Susan Pighels the Leaventh day of the third
month in the year 1690
The buriall of Ann Pighels the 22 : day of the : 8 month in
the year 1690
The buriall of Christopher Smith the : 20 : day of the fourth
month in the year 1690
The buriall of Edmond Turnar the twenty fourth day of the
: 8 : month in the year 1690
The buriall of Martha Clayton the wife of John Clayton the :
20 day of the first month in the year 1694
The burial of Bichard Crabtre the sone of Riohard Crabtre
the : 9 : day of the : 12 : month in the year 1694
The buriall of Elessabeth Pighels the : 18 : day of the Tenth
month in the year 1694
The buriall of Bobart Turner the : 26 : day of the : 10 :
month 1694
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 15
The bnriall of Martha Widap the : 10 : day of the : 7 : month
1698
The bnrieall of Jonas Smith the : 14 : day of the : 2 : month
in the : 82 : year of his age 1699
The Bnriall of Mary Clayton the Wife of Michaell Clayton
the : 21 : day of the : 2 : month in the year of onr Lord 1699
the bnriall of John Smith the 20 : day of May 1699
The Bnriall of William Clayton the : 12 : day of th : 4 :
month 1699
The bnriall of William Clayton the 5 day of th 8 month in
the year 1700
The Bnriall of William Pighels the : 8 : day of th : 9 : month
in the year 1700
Sarah Clayton Widdow to Wm Claton Buried the 16 day of
ye 9th month her husband died in 1699 as above 1700
William Clayton of Stanbnry Taken out of ye Body the 2d
day of the 8th month and buried the 5th of the same 1700
Sara Clayton Wife of the Same William Clayton Taken out
of the Body the 28th of the 9th month and was buried the 3d
of the 10 month 1700
Sara Smith Daughter of Jonas Smith of Cold Knowle near
Stanbnry Taken out of the Body the 28th of the 10th month
and buried the 27th of the same at friends burying place in
Stanbnry 1700
Jonas Turner of Scoles in the Parish of Eighley and County
of York Buried in ye Burying place in Stanbnry the Day of
ye 5th month in the year 1705
John Clayton near Stanbnry in the parish of Haworth De-
parted this Life the 28d day of ye 2d month and was Buryed
the 25th of ye same in friends Burying plaoe at Stanbnry 1718
Latter Day 'Sinner,' — A gravestone in Idel Churchyard,
now turned with inscription out of sight, bears the follow-
ing : "In memory of Lorenzo de Barnes, who died Dec. 20,
1840 He was a native of the United States, an Elder of the
Church of Jesus Christ, of the Latter Day Saints, a Member of
the High Priest's Quorum in Zion's Camp in the year 1884.
He was one of the first Gospel Messengers from Novou who
has found a grave in a foreign land.
Sleep on Lorenzo erelong from this
The conquered grave shall yield its captive prey,
Then with thy Quorum shalt thou reign in bliss
As king and priest to an eternal day."
The grave did yield his body, for it was removed one mid-
night about 1858, by leave of the Home Secretary, we presume,
and conveyed to America. E. Hutchinson.
16 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
A Yorkshire Scholarship Examination. — Mr. W. Claridge,
M.A., of the Grammar School, Bradford, writes : —
Will you allow me to call attention to the present administra-
tion of a valuable public trust ? In doing so I wish to assure
those who are concerned that it is far from my wish to com-
ment on the past, or to express dissatisfaction with what is
beyond recall, but simply to make such a plain statement of
fact as shall lead to an immediate and necessary reform.
The Rev. William Akroyd, rector of Marston, near York, in
1518, founded the scholarship in question, and it is now thrown
open to competition to boys of Yorkshire schools who are pro-
ceeding to the universities. The value and number of the
scholarships vacant seem to vary in a remarkable way. This
year there was one vacancy. The examination lasted two days.
I hope that the following account of the examination will prove
the need of an alteration in the system. On the first day three
papers were set. The first — from 9.0 to 12.80 — was a Latin
paper, and consisted of a stiff piece of " prose," four pieces of
" unseen," from Livy, Cicero de Amicitia, Catullus, and Lucre-
tius, and several questions on grammar. After only half-an-
hour's interval a paper was set on elementary mathematics,
and lasted from 1.0 to 8.80. In 20 minutes more a third
paper, on history and geography, was set, and lasted till six.
Here, I maintain, were two errors of judgment. It is prepos-
terous— and in the interests of the candidates we are bound to
protest against it — that boys should undergo a severe examin-
ation for nine hours together with only two short intervals of
thirty and twenty minutes respectively. The other error, and
it is one which every classical scholar will join in condemning,
consists in including " prose," " unseen " pieces, and grammar
in a single paper which was intended as a test of classical
scholarship.
On the second day there were again three papers. The first
consisted of Greek " unseen," and included Demosthenes adv.
Leptinem, Thucydides, ^Eschylus Prometheus vinctus, and
Sophocles (Edipus Bex; a few grammatical questions and
about eight lines of " prose " were added. The second paper
consisted of French and German. The paper announcing the
examination said French or German, but the examiner allowed
candidates to do both. This paper, be it remarked, was much
below the standard of the Lower Certificate of the Oxford and
Cambridge Board. The last paper was in higher mathematics.
Finally, candidates were not allowed to bring away with them
copies of the questions.
I think, Sir, I have proved my case that there is urgent need
for reform. The examination as at present conducted gives
absolutely no clue to the real abilities of the candidates. I
venture to hope that those who have charge of this trust will
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 17
see that next year the examination is conducted on rational
and, I may add, humane principles.
Ackboyd's Exhibition, (from the Liber Scholasticus, 1829.)
William Ackroyd by his will, bearing date 12th September,
1518, willed and devised that Henry Ackroyd fend Edmund, his
brother, with Henry Draper, and other feoffees, who then occu-
pied the lands and tenements of him, the said William Ackroyd,
should keep one scholar at the University of Oxford or Cam-
bridge, until the end of the world, and that such scholar should
be near unto him, the said William Ackroyd. in blood, and of
his name ; and if there should not be one of his name able or
fit, the said Henry Ackroyd and Edmund, his brother, and
Henry Draper, should choose one able and fit, near to him in
blood, and of another name ; and when that scholar should be
there beneficed to the value of 10 marks per annum, the feoffees
should keep another there out of their expenses, to the value of
six marks and one noble by the year, and not above ; and if
there should be none capable of his blood, the feoffees should
choose one out of Marston or Hutton who was able, so that
there should be always one.
By an inquisition and decree of commissioners of charitable
uses, bearing date the 22d May, 1699, after reciting the will,
and that it had been found by the jurors that one Richard
Nettleton, and others therein named, had acted as trustees of
the lands given to the charitable use, lying in Batley, being of
the value of 132. 10s. per annum, without any authority, and
had nominated a scholar in Cambridge to receive the rents and
profits of the said lands in Batley, who was not of the blood
of the donor, nor belonging to Marston or Hutton ; it was de-
creed, that Thomas Crofts, and three other persons therein
named, with the Rector of Long Marston, for the time being,
should be trustees for the said charitable use, and that they, or
the greater number of them, should from time to time demise
the said lands and tenements to the best advantage of the
seholar so to be sent to either of the Universities, and should
from thenceforth nominate such scholar, pursuant to the will,
and receive the rents and profits of the premises, and pay the
same according to the true intent and meaning thereof; and
upon every departure or removal of such scholar, should elect
another, so as always to keep a scholar at the University ; and
thai when any of the trustees should die, the survivors, or a
majority of them, should elect others in their place, so that
the same number of trustees, and no more, might continue for
ever.
The present trustees of the charity are, Thomas Perrott, Esq.,
of Sandford Park, Oxfordshire, the Rev. Joseph Smith, Vicar of
Kirby Moorside, the Rev. Waite Robinson, Rector of Badenham,
in Herefordshire, and James Croft, Rector of Saltwood, in the
y.n.q. c
18 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
county of Kent, and Alexander Origan, D.D., the present
Rector of Long Marston.
From a manuscript account of the charity, of a very early
date, in the possession of one of the trustees, it has been sup-
posed that the property comprised in the bequest or devise of
the said William Ackroyd, consisted of lands, lying part in the
parish of Batley, and part in that of Buerley, in the West
Biding of this county ; but the only property now held by the
trustees, or that can be traced into their possession from the
time of the inquisition in 1699, and even before that period, is
the estate of Batley therein mentioned, which is situate near
Leeds, and consists of four ancient houses, a barn, and sundry
inclosures, containing all together 82a. 1b. 18p., in the occupa-
tion of several different tenants from year to year, at the annual
rent of 1081. 18*. being the full value.
The estate is under the management of an agent, who receives
and applies the rent, subject to necessary out-goings, to the
use of a student at one of the Universities of Oxford or Cam-
bridge, who continues to enjoy the same as an exhibition, for
the term of three years and a half, when another is appointed
to receive the benefit of it. The objects of the charity are se-
lected by the trustees from the founder's kin, and their places
are supplied as vacancies arise ; but from the distance at which
several of the trustees reside from each other, some incon-
venience is experienced in the execution of the trust.
An account of receipts and disbursements is kept by the
agent, Mr. John Moisier, of Huntington, near York, and the
account is examined and audited by the trustees from time to
time.
Will of Sib William Akbboyd, Priest. — In the name of
God, Amen. Sep. 12, 1518. I, William Akeroyd, sound in
mind, but old and weak in body, do make my will in this man-
ner: First, I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, and the
Blessed Virgin Mary, and to All Saints, and my body to be
buried in my chancel of Marston, otherwise Hoton-Wandsly,
by the body of my mother. Item, I bequeath my best beast to
the most reverend Father in Christ, Lord Thomas, Cardinal of
Borne, of the title of St. Cecilia, and Archbishop of York, or
any other having canonical possession of that See, as my
Mortuary. Item, I bequeath to a fitt Priest, seven marks of
good lawful money of England, that he may pray for my soul,
and for the souls of my parents, and all my benefactors, for the
space of one year in the said church ; and one gradual, and two
quarters of fine flour, to the four Orders of Brethren in the city
of York, to be divided amongst them. Item, I bequeath two
quarters of malt, made of barley, to the poor of my parishioners.
Excerpta Antiqua.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 19
Fire op London. — The following is a copy of a letter pre-
served at Shibden Hall, written by Mrs. Phoebe Lister to her
son.
Samuell.
I need not aquaint yon with the lamentable acsedent
that hath befalne Londun. I know yon haue heard of it and
indeed it is a most heuy judgement not only upon them but
upon the whole land. John received a leter this day from my
cosen Thomas he saith that the Lord hath delt gratiously with
them tho their house be burnt yet much of their best goods is
safe. Thomas Dicanson hath writ to Mr. Palin that he is now
redused to the same condition he was at first and where as he
hath been able to releeve others he fears he shall now nede re-
leefe. I suppose yon have a great losse with the rest at Blacwell
Hall, but we must be content to submit to the wise providence
of God, and as we have had a hand in the sin that hath
brought this judgement so let us be content to submit to the
punishment. I would not have you discouraged, but trust in
the Lord, he hath bidden us cast our care upon him, and he
will certainly prouide for his in these said prouidences. I have
not yet heard anything of Jerimie, whether he be alive or no.
Remember my love to Mary, and to all our frends at Shibden
Hall and lower brear.
Your louing Mother,
PHEBE LISTER.
Writ whether my bridle came home with the hors or no.
The letter is directed at the back —
For Mr. Samuel
Lister, at Upper
Brea, nigh Hallifax
but bears no mark indicative of the process by which it was
conveyed thither.
Knighthood. — Mr. John Lister, father of the Samuel above-
mentioned, was fined £10 for declining to be knighted at the
coronation of Sing Charles the First. The receipt for this £10,
of which the following is a copy, is preserved to this day, in the
family records at Shibden Hall.
Sexto die mends Octobris annoqe Regni Eegno Caroli Anglice
etc Sexto 1630.
Eboru. Receaved tlie day and yeare above said of John
Lister of North Owram, in tlie county of York gent: tlie some
of Ten pounds. And it is in discharge of a Composicon by him
made witli my selfe and others his mat Comissioners for com-
pounding the fynes and forfeitures for not attending and
receaveing the order of Knighthood at his mat9 Coronacon
according to the lawe in that case provided. I say receaved tlie
somme of x lb. Wbntwobthk. J.H.T.
20 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR YORK,
17181882.
General Election, 1718— Sir Wm. Robinson, Bt., 1868,
Robert Fairfax, Esq., 885 ; Tobias Jenkins, Esq., 802. Total
votes— 8005.
Gen. EL, 1714— Robinson, 1888; Jenkins, 1225; Fairfax,
844. Total 8457. Upwards of 400 persons were admitted to
their freedom purposely to vote for Mr. Jenkins. Claimants of
freedom by patrimony or apprenticeship have now to give a
fall month's notice of claim, and can vote as soon as admitted.
Those who purchase their freedom cannot vote for twelve
months.
Gen. EL, 1722.— Sir Wm. Milner, Bt., 1421; Edward
Thompson, Esq., 1899; Sir Tancred Robinson, Bt., 1076.
Total 8896.
Gen. EL, 1727.— Milner and Thompson. Nem. con.
Gen. EL, May 1784.— Rt. Hon. Edward Thompson, re-
elected, and Sir John Lister Kaye, Bt., vice Sir W. Milner.
Gen. EL, May 18, 1741.— Rt. Hon. Edward Thompson, 1447;
Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., 1825 ; Sir John Lister Kaye, Bt.,
1815 : Sir Wm. Milner, Bt., 1115. Total 5202. There were
only 27 single votes, which were given to Mr. Thompson. Sir
W. "Milner withdrew after the first day.
Election, vice Rt. Hon. Ed. Thompson, deceased, 8 July,
1742. Sir John Lister Kaye, Bt.. was nominated, but declined
next day, and strenuously recommended George Fox, Esq.,
who was elected on the 21st, and great rejoicings took place on
the day of chairing.
Gen. EL, June 27, 1747.— George Fox, Esq., re-elected.
William Thornton, Esq., vice Godfrey Wentworth, Esq. Henry
Ibbotson, Esq., of Leeds, and Mr. Wentworth retired.
Gen. EL, April 15, 1754.— George Fox-Lane, Esq., was
re-elected, and Sir John Armytage, Bart., was chosen in the
room of Wm. Thornton, Esq., who had retired.
Election, 1768, consequent on the melancholy death of Sir
John Armytage, who lost his life in an expedition on the coast
of France. Sep. 25th, Wm. Thornton, Esq., was nominated.
Mr. Robert Lane, son of Mr. George Fox Lane, of Bramham
Park, came to an agreement to withdraw, but broke his word,
and the election took place December 1st to 7th. Thornton,
1289 ; Robert Lane, 994. William Jolliff, Esq., of Nunmonk-
ton, was chaired for Mr. Thornton.
Gen. EL, March 27, 1761.— Sir George Armytage, Bart.,
and Robert Lane, Esq., who were chaired in usual manner.
Mr. Fox-Lane and Mr. Thornton refused re-nomination.
Gen. EL, March 21, 1768.— The Hon. Lord John Cavendish
and Charles Turner, Esq. Sir George had declined to stand,
and recommended Mr. Turner, of Kirkleatham, in his stead,
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 21
who was nominated with Mr. Kobert Lane. Mr. Lane also
withdrew on account of bad health. Great feastings took place
on the 21st, the day of chairing.
Gen. EL, October, 1774. — Lord John Cavendish and Mr.
Turner offered their services, but Martin Bladen Hawke, Esq.,
son of Sir Edward Hawke, Ent., who had petitioned to be
admitted to the freedom of the city, and was admitted at a
house held at Onse-bridge Hall, declared himself a candidate.
On the 10th of October, after parading the streets on horseback,
the three candidates proceeded to Guildhall, and the poll began.
A mob of young men who claimed their freedom, but had not
given due notice, caused such commotion next day, that a post-
ponement took place for that day. On the 16th the votes
stood— Turner, 828 ; Cavendish, 807 ; Hawke, 647 ; Total, 2282.
The two first were thereupon chaired through the principal
streets of the city. Mr. Hawke had 537 plumpers, and only
1419 polled.
Gen. El., Sep. 11th, 1780. — Lord John Cavendish, and
Charles Turner, Esq., unopposed. Instead of balls and treats,
they gave, through their committee, a considerable sum to poor
freemen.
Election, April 8, 1782. — Rt. Hon. Lord John Cavendish
was re-elected without opposition, having vacated his seat by
accepting the office of Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of H.M.
Exchequer. He resigned the Chancellorship in July 1782, on
the death of the Marquis of Rockingham.
Election, April 8, 1788, having accepted the same office
again, Lord John Cavendish asked re-election, and was elected
nem. con. Peregrine Wentworth, Esq., acted as his proxy.
Election, Nov. 17th, 1788.— Vice Sir Charles Turner, Bart.,
deceased. Charles Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., was nominated
Oct. 81. Lord Visct. Galway, who had retired, was induced to
become a candidate, and Mr. Duncombe retired. Lord Galway
was chaired Nov. 17th.
Gen. EL, 1784, March 81— April 6th, Lord Visct. Galway,
1088 ; Richard Slater Milnes, Esq., 1024 ; Rt. Hon. Lord John
Cavendish, 918 ; Sir Wm. Mordaunt Milner, Bart., 812 ; total,
8882. The two former were declared duly elected, and chaired.
Gen. EL, June 18, 1790.— Richard Slater Milnes, Esq.,
re-elected. Sir Wm. M. Milner, Bart., vice Lord Galway,
resigned. Chaired.
Gen. El., May 27, 1796.— Sir W. M. Milner, Bart., and R. S.
Milnes, Esq., re-elected. Chaired.
Gen. EL, July 5, 1802.— Sir W. M. Milner, Bart., re-elected.
The Hon. Lawrence Dundas, vice B. S. Milnes, Esq., who had
resigned on account of ill-health. Chaired. Great feastings.
Gen. EL, Oct. 81, 1806. Milner and Dundas, re-elected.
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Gen. El., 1807.— On the Nomination Day, May 7th, Sir W.
M. Milner, and Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Barts., were
declared eleoted by show of hands, but the Hon. Lawrence
Dundas demanded a poll, which was concluded May 14th.
Milner, 1454; Sykes, 1816; Dundas, 967. Total, 8787.
Number of Freemen who voted was 2288. The two Members
were chaired as usual.
Election, 1811.— Vice Sir W. M. Milner's decease. Hon.
Lawrence Dundas, then Lord Mayor, was almost unanimously
approved. Unopposed. Chaired.
Gen. EL, 1812. — Dundas and Sykes, unopposed. Chaired
Oct. 6th.
Gen. EL, 1818.— The Hon. L. Dundas, and Sir Wm. Mor-
daunt Milner, Bart., of Nun-Appleton, son of the late Sir
William M. Milner, who had faithfully represented York in five
Parliaments, were invited to stand nomination. Sir Wm. de-
clining, Wm. Bryan Cooke, Esq., eldest son of Sir George
Cooke, Bart., of Wheatley, who began his canvassing five days
after his opponents. Dundas and Cooke secured the show of
hands, but Sir M. M. Sykes demanded a poll, which commenced
on Friday, June 19th. At the close of the fourth day, Col.
Cooke withdrew. Sir M. M. Sykes and Aid. Chaloner (as proxy
for Mr. Dundas, who suffered in health in consequence of
heavy domestic affliction) were chaired. The numbers stood at
the end of the fourth day — Dundas, 1446; Sykes, 1276 ; Cooke,
1055. Sir M. M. Sykes had 902 plumpers. The list of voters
has been printed.
Gen. EL, 1820, March 8th- 18th.— Hon. Lawrence Dundas,
1647; Marmaduke Wyvill, Esq., 1527; Lord Howden, 1201— of
whom 1072 were plumpers. The list of voters was published
in book form.
Election, 1820. — Hon. Lawrence Dundas succeeded to the
peerage as Lord Dundas, and Robert Chaloner, Esq., was
elected June 28th.
Gen. EL, 1826.— The ' Blue party ' had taken measures for
regaining their share in the representation which was lost in
1820, owing to the late appearance of Lord Howden. Col.
Wilson, of Sneaton Castle, came out as Blue Candidate, and
was returned, with Marmaduke Wyvill, Esq., the Hon. Thomas
Dundas having retired after two days' canvass.
Gen. EL, 1880, July 29th-August 8rd.— Samuel Adlam
Bayntun, Esq., (Tory), 1928 ; Hon. Thomas Dundas, 1907 ;
Hon. E. R. Petre, 1792.
Gen. EL, 1881.— Reform test. Bayntun and Dundas re-
elected without opposition.
Gen. EL, 1882.— First Reform-Bill Election. The poll,
limited now to two days, commenced Dec. 11th. The result
was declared on the 18th. Hon. E. R. Petre, 1505 ; S. A.
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Bayntun, Esq,, 1140; John Henry Lowther, Esq., 884 ; Hon.
Thomas Dtmdas, 872.
EBOB.
%* A continuation will be thankfully received. — Ed.
Incised Memorial Cross Slabs at Ripley. — In the church-
yard of Ripley, in Nidderdale, is a number of incised memorial
slabs, brought there from the ruins of the old church, or
"Sinking Chapel," which formerly stood near to where the
railway station is now situate. The materials of the old church
are said to have been used, about a.d. 1400, to build the pre-
sent structure.
The design on eight of the slabs is similar to that on no. 2,
in the sketch appended ; some of the crosses having shafts, and
some being without. Three bear a cross like no. 4, and there
is one of the pattern shewn in no. 8. Most of them are of small
size. The most peculiar of the slabs bears a design on each
side, sketched in figure 1. This has often been a puzzle to
antiquaries, and doubtless many readers besides myself would
like to know the meaning of the vessel represented on it ; and
also the approximate dates of all the designs. S. M., Calverley.
ANCIENT SESSION NOTES EXTRACTED FROM
THE ORIGINALS.
Pillory. — Whereas James Oiler ton, of Bowling, was indicted
at these Sess: [Leeds, July, 1677,] for a comon barracter,
and upon his travse to the same was found guilty — whereupon
the Corte ordered That for the said offence he should stand vpon
the comon pillorye at the mkt townes of Leeds, Bradforth, and
24 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Hallifax on the next market dayes, one houre at each towne
each day between the homes of eleven and two of the clocke,
with a paper sett on his head with this Inscription in Text
letters to witt : James Ollerton, a comon barracter, and then be
taken to gaol at York Castle till he find sureties for good behavr
for 7 years.
Poor Belief. — John Sharp, aged 3, son of Samuell Sharp,
of Manningham, late soldyer in H.M. service ; petition for his
relief and support, 1680.
Ordered that the Chwdns and Overseers of the poor of Skip-
ton pay and allow one Mr. Ann Mott, being sprung of that good
family of the Malhams, five shillings monthly being now growne
into great want and necessity, 1680.
Coal Pit. — David Hartley, sinking a Colepitt in Barkerend
in Bradford, by misfortune of a fall of earth was most lamenta-
bly crushed; petitions for relief, Wakefield, October, 1687.
Oaths. — John Sharp of Alford, Lincolnshire, Clerk, produced
[Wakefield, October, 1688,] certificate from the hands of the
Vicar of Bradford of having received the Sacrament, and then
in open court took the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and
subscribed to Test Act.
Eavesdropbeb. — Bichard Whitehead, of Horton, was charged
with frequenting the house of Thomas Wainwright, innkeeper,
Bradford, as an eavesdropper. Wakefield, January, 1690
CAKRIEB8, Bates.— Pontefract, April, 1692, rates fixed by the
Justices according to the late Act of Parliament :
London to Leeds, Halifax, &c, Id. per pound throughout
the year.
London to places twenty miles further than Leeds, 2d. per
stone more than the said penny, and so for every additional
twenty miles.
York to Wakefield or any place twenty miles from York, 2d.
per stone, proportionable by greater or less distance.
By Carts : Leeds to Selby and Turnbridge: a truss containing
four horse packs— May-day to Mchlmas, 6s. 6d. ; Mmas to
Xmas, 10s. 6d. ; Xmas to May-day, 15s. 6d. ; and so ac-
cording to weight and distance.
Selby, Turnbridge to Leeds, &c, May-day to Mchlmas, 12s.
per tunne ; Mmas to Xmas, 18s. per tunne ; Xmas to May-
day, 24s. per tunne. A fine of £5 liable to be imposed if
carriers demanded more.
Fibes.— Edward Bradley, of Horbury, gent., late captain m
royal cause, having suffered imprisonment, and had four con-
siderable houses accidently burnt downe att the cittye of Yorke,
petitions for grant from the riding; Pontefract, 1675.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 25
Peticon of Richard B&ttye of Kilnsey to the magistrates at
Skipton, 1675, — " Losse of goods by a sudaine accident of fire
which happened unfortunately for to, burne all the dwelling-
house wherein he inhabited, and barne together with much of
hie household stufle and other goods whereby yor. petr. was
quite beggerd and ever since hath suffered great misery for want
of some residence ;"* petitions for relief against winter.
On Thursday, April 1st, there hapned a sudden, sad, and
lamentable fire at Snaith, betwixt the houres of twelve and one
of the clock in the night, wch, in two houres time, burnt and
consumed eight dwelling-houses with sevrall barne s, stables,
kilnes, and other outhouses, together with the goods and chat-
tels of yor. petitioners, the losse whereof doth amount unto
£1002 lis. 6d., as shown to the Hon. Ld. Yisct. Downe. Peti-
tion, Pontefract, April 1686, that justices present the same to
his Matie and his honourable Councill to the end yor. petitioners
may obteyne his Matie's Gratious lettrs Pattern [patent,] for
the gathering the charity of all well disposed persons in the
countyes of Yorke, Lincoln and Nottingham.
Doncaster, January 1682, vpon consideracon had of .ye hum-
ble petticon of Thomas Oervas of Whiston setting forth That
vpon Sonday the nyneteenth day of November last, between the
houres of eleaven and twelve of the clock in the night tyme,
there happened a soddayne and lamentable fyre in said Towne
of Whiston first beginning in the dwelling-house of the said
Thomas Gervas without any propr. fault or negligence of his
owne and by reason of a great wynd in a short time burnt to
the ground the dwelling-house of the said Thomas Gervas with
all the out-houses, kilne, corne chambers, and other buildings
conteyneing nyneteen bages and consumed most of his corne,
hay and other goods whieh did amount in the whole to £150.
Ordered a collection to be made in all parish churches and
chappells in the riding, and the ministers there are desyred to
stirr upp their people to contribute freely to soe pyous a work.
Skipton, July, 1684 ; petition for the King's letters patent on
account of loss by fire at Sicklinghall in Kirby Overblow of 28
houses, 2 barns, kilns, &c, valued at £1180 05 00. and value
of goods lost £843 12 00.
Skipton, July, 1690; fire at Ffollyfoot, four houses, four
barns, &c, value £516 17 06.
Pontefract, April, 1696 : the vallue of the losse of ffewston
Church viewed and vallued by substantiall workmen whose
names are hereunder written :
Imp. the value of the stone worke, plasteringe, leading and
glasse £855 ; for the roofe, £249 18s. ; sleepers, boards
and seats in ye church £110 ; ye pulpit, reading Box and
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
bannisters betwixt ye church and Quire and four doores
£9 00 09 ; whole losse is £728 18 09.
The Justices sent an address to the Lord Keeper of the Great
Seale respecting the great and suddain fire at ffewston Church
through the negligence of the plumber who was repairing the
leads.
Witchcraft. — Whereas Michael Woodhouse of Wadsley,
Tayler, for professing to declare where stolen goods were to be
found — being a breach of the Statute concerning Witchcraft,
has failed to find sureties for good behaviour, ordered to be sent
to York gaol till he find such sureties. Barnsley, Oct. 1677.
Margaret Reyner, of Wentworth, went to Michael Woodhouse
(just mentioned,) to know who had stolen a spoon, and he des-
cribed a young man. He demanded a shilling ; she gave him
fourpence, all she had. Oct. 1677.
William Wilkinson, of Parkgate in Ecclesfield, bound to
answer for goeinge to a Wizard or Wiseman to enquire for a
shirt which hee had lost. Don caster, 1677.
Scolds. — Whereas Ann wife of Henry Greene of Cudworth,
and Ann Anderson of the same, stand eevrally indicted these
Sess. for common scowlds and disturbers of his Mats, peace
and being called in open corte to plead to the said Indictment
did both of them enter their travrses but did not fynd suertyes
for ther good behavyer wch they refused to doe. These are
therefore in his Mats, name to will and require you to receave
into yr Gaole (York Castle) the bodyes of the said Ann Greene
and Ann Anderson till they fynd sufficient suertyes. Barnsley,
Oct. 1677.
Eliza wife of Joshua Rhodes, of Earlsheaton, tried for a
oomon scould. 1678.
Whereas Sarah wife of Mathew Lund, of Wakefield, stands
Indicted and convicted at these Sees, for a comon Skowld, a
great Disturber of her neighbours : It is therefore ordered by
this Corte that the said Sarah Lund bee sett vpon the markett
Crosse at Wakefield the next friday being the Markett Day
there to remayne by the space of one hour with a papr. signi-
fyinge her offence. Pontefract, Apr. 1680.
Treason and Oaths. — Tour petitioner (Robert Rainer, Master
of the House of Correction at Wakefield,) was ordered by Sir
John Eay and Mr. Horton to maintayne one James Trenchard
committ to yor petticonr. for beeing suspected to have been in
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the late plott, yor petticonr. hath kept him a quarter of a yeare
which cost him 20s. Pontefraot, April, 1686.
Robert Beyner, of Wakefield, gent., Keeper of the Prison,
took the sacrament, 1675.
1693. Henry Hemingway gives information, saying that,
being sent for by Mr. Edward Deane, Vicar of Batley, to the
house of Michael Parker, in Dewsbnry, alehouse keeper,
Nathaniel Burd, gent., of Dewsbury, talking about the B. of
Boyne, said that King William was but a rebel.
1692. John Barton, of Kighley, bound to appear for drinking
Sing James' health.
Magistrates had to produce periodically certificates from the
vicar, churchwardens, and two other witnesses, that they took
the sacrament as administered at the Church of England. They
were also required to deny the doctrine of tran substantiation.
John Gibson, minister of the Parish Church of Hartshead, and
others testify that Sir John Armytage received the sacrament
of the Lord's Supper there, 1677.
John Ellis of Bumsall, charged with uttering treasonable
words. Knaresborough, Oct,, 1677.
The Battle of Mons was much talked about. A carrier is
charged with saying that he knew where £700 was held for
King James. Leeds, July, 1691.
Thomas Bentley, constable, of Southowram, indicted Thomas
Wakefield for not going to the Parish Church at Halifax, calling
the constable a fforsworne rogue, and saying the king's precept
was a f&atching paper ; and others of the locality indicted for
not receiving the sacrament. 1675.
The collectors of the " ffire-hearth tax " were required to
take the oath. 1676.
William Woofenden, constable, of Quarmby, on oath, 1677,
gave information, as collector of H. Maties revenue of hearth-
money, against William Hirst, of Quarmby, for saying, when
arrested for hearth-dues, that Woofenden was a knave, and Sir
John Eaye was a knave, and said that soon one could not let a
f— rt but a Justice of Peace was ready to send out his warrant.
Fined £10. Leeds, 1677.
William Wilson, of Linton, for speaking scandalous and
seditious words that ye king was a knave and a theife. Wetherby,
January, 1677.
Christopher Lancaster, minister of Burnsall, and the church-
wardens certify that Ambrose Bland, of Burnsall, M.A., took
the sacrament. 1678.
We doe hereby certifie that Alexander Stileman, at Turne-
bridge, this day, before us, two of His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the Bidd., tooke the several oathes of allegeance and
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supremacy, as alsoe the oath of a gager. 1677. — Thomas Yar-
burgh, J. Boynton.
To certifie yt, Thomas Smith, officer of ye Excise, received
ye sacrament ye 80th of Sept., 1677, at ye Parish Church of
Badsworth, according to the custom of ye Church of England.
Edward Dodsworthe, rect.
Richard Oddie, of Meagill, and Chr. Brayshaw, of Skipton,
leade miner, gave information on oath, before Mr. Cuth. Wade,
J.P., that " This psent morneing they heard one Henrie Slater,
of Thorp, a collier, say yt all cavalears weare roagues, and yt
the king was no better, and further sayth not." Skipton, 1677.
John Buck and five others, of Sheffield, bound to appear for
beinge unlawfully assembled in the towne of Sheffield with drum,
guns, swords, and other weapons. Exonerated afterwards. 1677.
A number of Burstall men indicted for drinking King James*
health. 1693.
The chief constables issued orders to bring Papists before
justices to take the oaths ; also to disarm them, to seize their
horses, if above the value of £5, and sell them. The arms to
be taken for their Majesties' use. Skipton, July, 1691.
Mary Coppley, of flarrigate, widdow, being suppressed from
keeping a comon tipleing house, because she was a Catholic,
petitions to have it restored on account of her poverty. Wether-
by, January, 1691.
Tempest llling worth, of Tong, labr., indicted for speaking
severall maliciouse and oprobious words in contempt and dero-
gation of the Booke of Comon Prayer. Leeds, July, 1687.
Revolution. — " Yorke, October ye 2d, 88. [16881 • Gentlemen,
Haueing heere reed his Maties pclamaoon, Insinuateing that
an Invasion of this Kingdom is designed from beyond the seas
and the vsuall way for giueing notice of such Invasion to the
people of the Kingdom to rise for the defence thereof is by
fireing of the Beacons in Every place where they were sett up.
Now being given to vnderstand that the Beacons in most places
are either quite pulld down, or rendred vseless, I desire that at
this time of yr Sessions (The prsent Juncture of affairs require-
ing it), you will take effect uall order that they bee forthwith
repaired and made vsefull if there shall be need to vse them. I
hope you will looke upon this as a reasonable thing to bee done
at this time and therefore doe recommend it to you, and remain
Gentlemen, Yr most humble Sernt, T. Rokeby."
Pretender. — A particular list of the names of all persons
within the township of that are lyable to take the oath
to his Majesty and Government according to the present Act,
1715 :
Wyke. — Mr. John Empson, sick, Mr. William Richardson,
jur., Wm. Pollard, Wm. Law, Wm. Ashley, Wm. Brook, jur.,
Isaac Holdroyd.
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Thorneton. — Abraham Brooksbank Schoolemaster, jur., Wil-
liam Hyrd, Quaker, Jeremy Gleydhill, Joshua Firth, Timothy
HorsfaU, Thomas Short, William Pearson, Jonas Pearson, John
Jennings, John Shackle ton.
Shelf. — Mr. Wm. Clifford, clergyman, Wm. Holmes, quaker
[and others].
Pudsey.— ^John Milner, gent., Dr. of phisick, Mr. Elcana
Berry, dissenting minister, &c.
Heaton. — Joseph Kittson, Quaker, &c.
Hecxmoxbwike. — John Lister, clerk, &c.
Horton.— Isaac Sharp, Abraham Sharp, Mr. Eli Dawson,
Dissenting Preacher, &c.
DBiGHLiNOTON-crDM-GiLDERsoME.— Sam Dickinson, John Thac-
kerah, Wm. Reyner, quakers, &c.
Idle. — John Swaine, Nehemiah Sandall, quakers, Mr. John
Wilson, preacher Dissr., and many others. J.H.T.
THE RICHEST LIVINGS IN YORKSHIRE.
There are ten livings in the diocese of York over £1000 a
year, and nine in that of Ripon, making a total of 19 livings in
Yorkshire of £1000 each and upwards : —
York Diocese. Ripon Diocese.
Darfield £1600
Settrington 1500
Leven 1800
Rowley 1800
Cherry Burton 1268
Bolton Percy 1240
Burton Agnes 1075
Barmston 1065
Kirby Misperton 1050
Sheffield 1000
Bedale £2000
Halifax 2000
Stanhope (Dur.) 1650
Wensley 1830
Spofforth 1820
Thornhill 1250
Bradford 1200
Leeds 1200
Gilling 1000
Yorkshire Post, 1885.
A BRIEF HISTORY OP QUAKERISM IN SED-
BERGH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.
The meeting house of the Friends is at Brig Flat over a mile
on the west of Sedbergh, and on the north of the river Rawthy.
It is pleasantly situated in a fertile plain with romantic hills
on the north, east and south. It is said to be the oldest Friends'
meeting house in England with one exception. The edifice is
plain and substantial and void of all architectural adornments.
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It was built in 1675 by the liberality of Friends at Sedbergh
and the neighbourhood. At that time it consisted of four bare
walls and a roof of timber, laths, and slate. On account of
this unfinished state at the approach of winter the openings in
the slates had to be stopped with moss to keep out wind, rain,
and snow. Modern places of worship after this model would
have caused a sad falling off of worshippers during severe
winters. For thirty-six years Friends met in this uncomfort-
able building, and still they increased and became so numerous
that in 1711 it was considered necessary to put up a gallery.
The Friends met in council to devise means for defraying
the cost of this addition to the meeting house. Those Friends
who had timber on their estates were requested to contribute a
sufficient quantity of oak for the erection of a gallery, and those
who had none to cart it to the place free of cost. After the
timber had been carted to the place, a meeting was held for the
purpose of selecting a joiner to do the work. A deputation was
appointed to see a person named John Gopeland, who made a
bargain to put up the gallery for £5. A similar piece of work
at the present day would cost nearer £50. Shortly after the
SUery had been completed other improvements, such as under-
awing the roof and fixing backs to the seats, were made. In
connection with Brig Flat meeting house there is an old burial
ground which is nearly full of the graves of the dead. In the
17th century the burials in this old graveyard were very
numerous. There is a stone in one of the walls dated 1712.
At the meeting house there is a library of ancient and modern
books chiefly of Friends' literature. The times of religious
worship are weekly on the mornings of First and Fifth days.
Though Brig Flat Meeting-house was built in 1675 the intro-
duction of Quakerism into the neighbourhood was at a much
earlier date. In 1652 George Fox ascended Pendle Hill from
the top of which the Lord let him see at what place he had a
great people to be gathered. At night he stayed at a neigh-
bouring Inn where he felt he had a call from the Lord to visit
Wensleydale and Sedbergh. Major Bousfield, who lived in the
neighbourhood of Sedbergh, received him in his house and
treated him kindly. Richard Robinson and Justice Benson
opened their houses for meetings which, in spite of cruel perse-
cutors, were crowded with anxious hearers. Through George
Fox's ministry numerous persons were convinced of the truth
and a large meeting of Friends was gathered at Sedbergh.
Happening to be at Sedbergh during the time a great fair was
held, and when many servants were there for hiring, he opened
his mission in the street and declared unto the listening crowds
the day of the Lord. Afterwards he went into what he called
the steeple house yard where he was followed by many of the
fair people. There were many priests and professors of religion
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present. Though George Fox did not fail to deliver his mes-
sage with great plainness and earnestness he had upon the
whole an attentive hearing. A captain said, " Why will you
not go into the church ? This is not a fit place to preach in."
One Francis Howgill, who was a preacher to a congregation,
stood by him and said, " This man speaks with authority and
not as scribes." One of the priests who had been rather too
plainly dealt with, said, " You are mad," and then went away.
A Captain Ward on this occasion embraced the truth, and
proved his sincerity by living and dying in it. Francis How-
gill, who became a Friend of sterling integrity and blameless
life, was tried in 1664 at Appleby Assizes before Judge Turner
for refusing to swear when the oath of allegiance was tendered
to him. For this refusal he was put out of the King's protec-
tion and the benefit of the law. His land was confiscated to
the King and his goods and chattels seized, and he was to be
a prisoner for life. After suffering in prison for four years and
eleven months he " sweetly finished his course in much peace
with the Lord."
The day after Oeorge Fox held his meeting in Sedbergh
Churchyard he went to Firbank Chapel on the north-west side
of the Lune, and not very far from Brig Flat. About 1000
persons gathered together to hear him and he spoke to them
for the space of three hours. It is a question whether the most
popular preacher in England at the present time could draw
1000 persons to hear him in a neighbourhood so sparsely popu-
lated as Firbank. In 1668 George Fox again visited Sedbergh.
At that time there was a large meeting and a precious people.
While he was holding a meeting at John Blakeling's, Sedbergh,
he escaped some constables, who expected to find him at a
meeting which was being held on the same day at Ann Audland's
in another part of the neighbourhood. In 1674 Oeorge Fox was
at Thomas Cam's at Cams-gill, when John Blakeling, of Dran-
well, Sedbergh, brought him to his house where he stayed for
two or three nights. On the First day following there was a
large meeting at Brig Flat. Friends came from the several
meetings round about so that there was a concourse of 500 or
600 people. This appears to be the last visit George Fox paid
to Sedbergh.
It was not long after the introduction of Quakerism to Sed-
bergh before the believers in George Fox's teachings had to
pay dearly in goods and imprisonments for their faith. In
1661, Bichard Bobinson, of Sedbergh, for a church rate of 8d.,
was deprived of goods worth £1 10s., and John Blakeling for a
rate of £1 10s. was deprived of goods worth £&. At a meeting
at Thomas Taylor's house, Sedbergh, in 1662, fifty persons
were taken by constables and retained in their custody until
ordered by the justices to appear at the Sessions. Out of that
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number twenty of them were committed to York Castle.
Whether they were sinners abdve the liberated ones or not,
their names are worthy of being recorded: John Blakeling,
Bichard Robinson, James Gray, Edward Atkinson, John Lang-
ton, Thomas Greenwood, William Baines, John Hodgson, John
Holme, Bichard Walker, Christopher Walker, Bichard Harrison,
Bichard Speight, John Croft, Joshua Nelson, William Golding,
F. Blakeling, Edward Branthwaite, Joseph Baines, and Bichard
Stones. In 1668, for church rates, goods worth £1 6s. were
taken from John Langton, John Thompson, and Edward At-
kinson, of Sedbergh, and goods worth £3 from Thomas Winn
and Bichard Wilson, of Grisedale. In 1671 various fines were
inflicted upon the following persons by Justice Henry Wilson,
of Eirby Lonsdale, for attending meetiugs at Sedbergh. Bichard
Walker and his sister Margaret, of Middle ton, were fined £1,
James Corney and Bichard Parrott, of Eillington, eaoh 15s.,
Joseph Baines and Margaret Walker, of Eillington, £1 15s.,
Bobert Atkinson and John Thirnbeck, of Middleton, £1 5s.,
Miles Walker of the same place, 5s. ; and James Corney and
John Thirnbeck, the second time, £2 15s. In 1682 George
and Anthony Mason, of Dent, and John Dent and James Dick-
inson, of Sedbergh, for non-attendance at the Parish Church,
had cattle taken from them worth £51. In 1685 Edmund At-
kinson, Francis Blakeling and James Thomson were committed
to prison for tithes at the suit of Bichard Trotter and Anthony
Fawcett, farmers of the tithes of the rectory of Sedbergh.
James Thompson died in prison. These are honoured names
of men who valued religious freedom more than earthly good
or even life itself. Though in some things we from them may
differ, still they were noble men for their times, and honoured
indeed are they who have sprung from such a godly race.
L.G.
Yobk Cattle Faib. — The 24th part of Patents in the thirty-
second year of the Beign of Queen Elizabeth.
The Queen, to all to whom Ac, greeting.
Whereas our well beloved the Mayor and Aldermen of our
city of York have represented unto us that by reason of the dis-
tance of the Fairs and Markets appointed for the buying and
selling Cattle from the City of York the Citizens of the said
City are compelled to make inconvenient journeys to procure
such things as are necessary for their food And also the Farm-
ers there in driving their beasts to such distant Fairs are very
much fatigued—
We willing to Lighten such inconveniences and to provide
them with more convenient marketting of our especial grace
and of our certain knowledge and mere motion for us our heirs
and Successors Do grant by these presents to the aforesaid
Mayor and Commonalty of the city of York aforesaid and their
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES, S3
successors that they from henceforth for ever may have, hold,
and keep in the City aforesaid, or the Suburbs of the same,
yearly for ever on every Thursday next before the Sixth Sunday
in Lent, commonly called Palm Sunday, one fair and Market
for selling and buying sheep horses and; other cattle and beasts,
and that moreover on every second Thursday yearly between
the aforesaid Sunday commonly called Palm Sunday and the
feast of the birth of our Lord then next following, the same
Mayor and Commonalty of the City of York aforesaid, and their
successors, may have hold and keep and may and shall be able
to have hold and keep from henceforth for ever a like Fair and
Market for selling and buying Sheep, Horses and other Cattle
and beasts within the City aforesaid or the Suburbs thereof,
together with a Court of Piepowder there to be holden at the
time of the same fairs and markets. And together with all
Liberties and Free Customs to such Court appertaining so
nevertheless that the Fairs or Markets aforesaid, be not to the
injury of other neighbouring Fairs and Markets. And that the
said Mayor and Commonalty of the City aforesaid and their
successors from henceforth for ever may have and receive and
may and shall be able to have and receive within the Fairs and
Markets aforesaid from every Buyer of Beasts and Cattle within
the said Markets or Fairs the tolls following and no other,
(that is to say) for every Horse or Gelding to be hereafter
bought in the said Fairs or Markets one penny — For every
Mare with a foal one penny, for a Mare alone one penny, for
an ox or cow with a Calf or without a Calf one halfpenny for
two heifers of the age of two years or less one halfpenny, for
every ten sheep one halfpenny, for five ewes with their lambs
one halfpenny, for every ten lambs one farthing, together with
the stallage piccages fines Amerciaments and all other profits
Commodities and Emoluments whatsoever in the said fairs and
Markets and Court of Pie Powder coming happening arising or
growing And with all liberties and free customs to such Fairs
and Markets appertaining or belonging. And that at the time
of the fairs and Markets aforesaid and every of them the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City afsd. for the time being shall receive
and collect by themselves or by their deputy or deputies the
Tolls afsd. to the use of the City afsd. for all and other manner
of Beast and Cattle hereafter to be sold within the Fairs and
Markets aforesaid from the Buyers of the same Beasts or
Cattle without impeachment of us our heirs and successors or
others whomsoever.
Whereas also by the faithful Report of the said Mayor and
Aldermen we have been informed that our said city is very
much endangered by occasion of too many Maltkilns kept
within the same City everywhere dispersed in the best places
Y.N.Q. D
84 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
thereof, also the same city is rendered subject to Fires and
Conflagrations, and also on account of the immense quantity of
wood and Fuel in such Business consumed a great want and
scarcity of wood & Fuel has arisen and daily seems very likely
to increase more and more, We being willing to obviate which
said inconveniences and dangers, of our Especial grace and of
our certain knowledge & mere motion, will ordain and for us
our heirs and successors by these presents Do grant to the
aforesaid Mayor and Commonalty of the City of York aforesaid
and their Successors that hereafter there may and shall be
within the City aforesaid and the suburbs thereof so many
Maltkilns as to the Mayor Aldermen & Sheriffe of our said City
of York for the time being and to such persons who heretofore
have been or hereafter shall be sheriffs of the same City after
they may or shall have quitted the office of Sheriff of that City,
as to the greater number of them according to their prudence
and sound discretions, shall seem convenient necessary and re-
quisite, to be disposed in places fit and least dangerous and that
the same Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of the City aforesaid
and all those who have been or hereafter shall be sheriffs of the
same City after they may or shall have quitted the office of
Sheriff or the greater part of them may or shall have from
henceforth for ever full power and authority from time to time
to suppress put down for ever all and singular other Maltkilns
except those which shall be approved of and appointed by them
And if it shall happen hereafter that any possessors and owners
of the said Maltkilns by them so as aforesaid to be approved of
and appointed shall desert and neglect the exercise and use
thereof or transfer and convert the buildings applied to such
business to any other use Then We will and grant by these
presents that the sd Mayor Aldermen & Sheriffs of the City
afsd. for the time being and all those who have been or here-
after shall be sheriffs of the said City after they may or shall
have quitted the office of sheriff or the greater part of them
shall and may be able from time to time for ever to appoint
assign and constitute other buildings fit for such business and
other Exercisers of the work afsd. within the City aforesaid
the suburbs and precincts of the same to fill up such number of
the said Kilns as to them shall seem necessary and requisite.
And Further of our more abundant grace We Will and for u»
our heirs and successors Do grant to the aforesaid Mayor and
Commonalty of the City of York aforesaid and their successors
that the Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of the City afsd. for the
time being and all those who have been or hereafter shall be
Sheriffs of the said City after they may or shall have quitted
the office of Sheriff or the Major part of them met together and
assembled may and from henceforth for ever shall have full
authority power and faculty of framing constituting ordaining
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 86
and establishing such reasonable Laws ordinances and consti-
tutions as to them or the Major part of them shall according to
their sound discretions seem good wholesome useful honest and
necessary for the good Rule and government as well of the
aforesaid Maltkilns and the owners thereof as for the Rule and
Government of all and singular the Citizens inhabitants and
Besiants of the City aforesaid or the Suburbs and Precincts
thereof And that the Mayor aldermen and sheriffs of the City
aforesaid for the time being and all those who have been or
hereafter shall be sheriffs of the said City after they shall or
may have quitted the office of Sheriff or the Major part of them
as often as they shall frame make ordain or establish such laws
institutions ordinances and constitutions in form aforesaid shall
and may be able from henceforth for ever to assess impose and
inflict such and the like pains penalties imprisonments of the
body fines and amerciaments or any of them towards and upon
all delinquents against such Laws ordinances and Constitutions
or any or either of them as and which to the same Mayor
Aldermen and Sheriffs of the City aforesaid for the time being
and all those who have been or hereafter shall be sheriffs of the
said City after they shall or may have quitted the office of
Sheriff or to the major part of them shall seem necessary and
requisite for the observance of the aforesaid Laws ordinances
and Constitutions And that the said Mayor and Commonalty
and their Successors shall and may be able to levy retain and
have those Penalties fines and amerciaments from time to time
by themselves or by their officers by distress or by any other
lawful means to them and their successors for ever to the use
of the City aforesaid without the impeachment of us our heirs
and successors or of either or any of the officers or ministers of
us our heirs and successors whatsoever, all and singular which
Laws ordinances and constitutions so as aforesaid to be here-
after made We will and by these Present firmly enjoining do
command to be observed under the pains to be contained in the
same so that such Laws ordinances Institutions and Constitutions
be not repugnant nor contrary to the Laws & Statutes of our
Kingdom of England. Altho Express mention &c. In Witness
whereof &c
Witness the Queen at Westminster the 29th day of June.
By writ of Privy Seal &c. 82 Eliz.
7Chas. L 19 July, 1682.
11 We have willed and ordained constituted declared 'granted
and confirmed and by these presents for us our heirs and suc-
cessors we will & ordain constitute declare grant and confirm
to the aforesaid Mayor & Commonalty of the City of York afsd.
and their successors for ever all and all manner of such like
86 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Franchise liberties faculties powers authorities annuities exemp-
tions privileges fines issues forfeitures Amerciaments before our
justices of the peace within the Liberty of the City aforesaid
and the suburbs and County of the said City. Emerging hap-
pening or proceeding to be levied and received by their own
proper officers as in prior charters is contained. And also the
profits commodities advantages exemptions cognizance of Pleas
Jurisdiction Manors Messuages Lands tenements wastes vacan-
cies Farms Common feasts fairs & markets Courts of pie powder
with all the liberties and free customs to the same Court
belonging or appertaining as also the Tolls Stallage pickages
and Emoluments and Hereds. whatsoe'r or of what kind or sort
so ever heretofore given or granted or mentioned to be given or
granted to the Mayor Aldermen or Commonalty of the City of
York aforesaid or to the Citizens and Inhabitants of the said
city by whatever name or names by means any Charter or
letters patent of the aforesaid King James late King of England
our father or any other of our progenitors or predecessors late
Kings or Queens of England or any of them in whatsoever
manner granted &c.
84 Charles 2nd
5 July 1688.
Inspeximus Charter of 5 July 19. R. II.
But we are led to exemplify by these present the tenor of the
premises aforesaid at the request of the present Mayor and
Commonalty of our said City of York In Witness &c.
84 Charles 2.
5 July 1688.
Inspeximus & Exemplification of Charter 11 Feb. of 27th
Hen 6.
16 Charles II, 8 June 1666. York.
" Sicut in prioribus cartes continetin, neo non proficua
commoditales advantagia quietantias cognitiones placitorum
jurisdictiones maneria messuagia unas tenementa vasta vacua
funda comminas ferias nundinas mercata curiam pedum pulver-
izator : cum omnibus libertatibus ac liberis consuetudinibus ad
hujusmodi curiam pertinentibus sura spectant: nee non [tolls]
stallagia piccagia ac emolumenta et hereditamenta quecumque
cujus &c. . .
6 Eliz. York.
Whereas besides the same Citizens have, and they & their heirs
and predecessors aforesaid hitherto have had, in the absence of
us and our progenitors afsd., the Assize of Bread & Beer the
Keeping and Assay of measures and weights and all other things
belonging to the office of the Market in the City and Suburbs
aforesaid We grant to them and by this Charter of ours we
have confirmed for us and our heirs that they and their heirs
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and successors afsd. hereafter in the presence of us and our
heirs do and Exercise for ever the Assize of Bread & Beer the
Keeping and Assay of Measures and Weights and all other
tilings whatsoever belonging to the office of the Market in the
City of York and Suburbs of the same, and the transgressors of
the said Assize of Bread & Beer in due manner punish, and the
defects of measures weights and other things belonging to the
said office of the Market correct and amend so that the Clerk
of the Market or any minister of us or' our heirs shall not
enter the said City of York or Suburbs of the same to do and
perform in the same any of those things which belong to the
said office of Clerk of the Market and also that all profits thence
arising be always the said Citizens their heirs and successors
afsd. in aid of the farm of their city above mentioned. Save &c.
Quod ipsi etc. imppm. treant teneant & custodiant ac here.
tenere. et custodere possint et Valeant in Civitate pr dca. aut
surburbiis ejusdem annuatim imppm. qualibet die jo vis p'x ante
sextum diem dnicam in Quadragesima vulgarites Vocat Palme
Sondaye unam Feriam et Nundin p. ovibus eqius aliisque Cattallis
et Pecudibus vendend. et emend. Qdque in sup quit sexto die Jovis.
[We have given our readers a specimen or two here of old,
unpunctuated, tautological law records from the MSS. of the
late Fairless Barber, Esq.]
o
Batley Grammas School. — Novel way of Electing a Master.
After the death in 1831 of Mr. Sedgwick, the late Master of the
Batley Grammar School, the Trustees advertised for another
Master, and arranged with the Bev. Martin Joseph Naylor,
D.D., Master of the Wakefield Grammar School, and Robert
Hall, Esq., A.M., of Leeds, Barrister, to be present on the day
of appointment to examine the candidates as to their fitness for
the mastership. A meeting was fixed for the 18th of January,
1882, when the following report was delivered by the Examiners
to the Trustees and Churchwardens.
44 To the Trustees of Batley Grammar School.
Gentlemen,
In execution of the duty undertaken by us, at your request,
we have this day subjected the candidates for the Head Master-
ship of Batley Grammar School to a General Examination in
the Latin and Greek Languages. It appears to us on the result
of our examination, Mr. Senior and Mr. Bichardson are
decidedly superior to the other candidates, and though not so
perfect as might be desirable, yet, with the requisite attention
to their own improvement they will be competent to fulfil the
purposes of the Foundation. Next to them, but at a very con-
siderable interval, we place Mr. Elgood and Mr. Briggs.
M. J. Naylor, D.D.
Batley, January 18th, 1882. Kobebt Hall, M.A.
88 YORKSHIRE? NOTES AND QUERIES.
The following is from the Trustees* Minute Book :
" Batley, February 18th, 1882, Monday.
The Trustees of the School in pursuance of the Investigation
and decision laid before them by the Examiners of the Candi-
dates, having resolved at' the conclusion of their last meeting to
take time for enquiring also into the personal character of the
two gentlemen whose superiority in literary qualifications were
attested and pointed out to them, and enquiries having been
made, and Testimonials received in consequence, respecting
their moral estimation, and also respecting their fitness in point
of patient and suitable aptness for teaching Scholars and for
their ability and capaoity as to being able to impart and com-
municate to Pupils that learning and knowledge which they
themselves were deemed by the Examiners to possess, came
this day at a meeting at Charles Ward's to the determination
that the two Candidates, Mr. Joseph Senior and Mr. George
Bichardson, were so equally poized in reputed desert, and merit,
that they could not decide or distinguish to whom the preference
was justly and fairly due. They therefore resolved to leave
that decision to the drawing of Lots, and to choose by Ballot,
which of the Candidates should be conditionally elected to the
Mastership of the School, and into possession of the House and
Premises connected therewith. The names of these two Candi-
dates were accordingly each written on six different small
pieces of paper, making together twelve lots, six for each, and
all being put into a Hat, six Lots were drawn out by the four
Trustees, and the two Churchwardens present, four of which
Lots contained the name of Mr. Senior, and two the name of
Mr. Richardson, upon which result Mr. Senior was declared
fairly, and duly elected on conditions that will appear in future
proceedings. Present,
Luke Blakeley,
Morris,
Churchwardens.
Batley. Lucy F. Dyson.
The Rev. W. M. Heald,
Norrison Scatcherd, Esq.,
Mr. John Nussey,
Mr. Ab : Greenwood,
Trustees."
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Jin ©l& Unrksbtmnan's lournaL
Mr. George Roberts, Lofthouse, contributes extracts from the
MS. journal of John Berry, who was, early in the century,
magistrates' clerk at Wakefield. Reprinted with additions, from
the Merctay Suffllement, by Mr. Roberts' leave.
Act for paving Wakefield streets passed, 1771.
Act for lighting and paving in Wakefield, 1796.
Wakefield Enclosure Act passed, 1798.
Thatched public-house, at Kirkthorpe, near Wakefield, occu-
pied by Mr. Billinton, burnt down by a flash of lightning, July
25th, 1800.
On May 29th, 1799, I went to be clerk with Mr. Scholefield,
of Horbury, and remained there till 23rd of October, 1808,
when I left ; and on ye 81st of that month I went to Mr. Daw-
son's, of Wakefield.
An evening lecture established at the parish church of
Wakefield, and the first lecture given by the Rev. Thos. Rogers
(then master of the Free Grammar School), on the 26th of
July, 1801.
First newspaper at Wakefield, called Wakefield Star, was
published 4th November, 1808, by Stuart Arnold.
March 18th, 1800. — Richard Linnecar, a coroner at Wakefield
died. He was succeeded by Edward Brook, an attorney, who
died 18th of September, 1825, and he was succeeded by Thomas
Lee, a young attorney at Wakefield.
August 1st, 1800. — Granville Wm. Wheeler Medhurst, Esq.,
of Kippax Hall, tried at York, before Baron Graham, for the
murder of his wife, and acquitted, being declared insane.
September 20th, 1802. — Hops rose from £4 to J616 per cwt.>
all at a stroke.
March 14th, 1808. — John Terry and Joseph Heald, two young
men from Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, were hanged &t York
for the brutal murder of widow Smith, at Flanshaw. She was
buried at the west end of the Unitarian Chapel in Wakefield,
and a stone placed over her, on which were carved the imple-
ments used in the murder.
January 17th, 1806. — A lunar rainbow appeared at Wakefield
from half-past nine till half-past ten.
July 7th 1806.— Otley fortnight fair first held.
1810.— At the Exeter Lent Assizes, Wm. Gourd and Wm.
Rose (two children 11 years old each) were sentenced to death
for stealing a few hanks of thread.
May 28rd, 1811. — I was admitted a member of the Hon.
Society of Gray's Inn.
At the York Summer Assizes, 1811, James Thackrah, a
6oldier, was convicted of perjury respecting the enlistment of a
recruit at Bewsbury, and transported for seven years.
40 YORKSHIKE NOTES AND QUERIES.
William Burrell, of Wakefield, was drowned at Kirktborp dam
while hunting, Feb. 6th, 1810.
Rev. Eichard Monkbouse, Vicar of Wakefield, D.D., died
January 20th, 1810, aged 58. He was succeeded by the Rev.
Samuel Sharp, bis curate.
March, 1810.— The White Hart Inn offered for sale. During
this year Dewsbury was made a regular market town.
May 17th, 1810. — Francis Maude, of Moor House, died, aged
78.
January 10th, 1810. — West Riding Sessions first held in the
new court-house at Wakefield.
October, 1810. — One Ryan, a soldier, killed in an affray at
the Cock and Swan Inn, at Wakefield, for which Tom Shaw,
deputy-constable, was indicted at the following assizes, when
the grand jury ignored the bill. For particulars of the inquest
see Wakefielil Star of Oct. 26th, 1810.
November 12th, 1810. — A Mr. Harper fitted and used the
White Barn, at the top of Northgate, as a theatre ; closed Dec.
28th.
November 28th, 1810.— Wm. Heald elected Clerk to the
Commissioners of Wakefield Streets; John Robson having
resigned.
March 1st, 1811. — The Wakefield Star appeared under a new
title, the Wakefield and Halifax Journal.
Wm. Shackle ton, grocer, poisoned himself at the bailiff's
house, whilst under arrest, lltb of July, 1811.
Wm. Hodgson, a Leeds woolsorter, tried at York, Aug. 3rd,
1811, for a rape upon Hannah Halliday, at Leeds, for which he
was hanged.
September 2nd, 1811. — First stone of Leeds Court House
laid by Alexander Turner, the Mayor.
April, 1812. — The Wakefield Harriers were advertised for
sale, and the Wakefield Hunt given up.
October 26th, 1812. — The Leeds mail to London was robbed
near Kettering, for which Jeffrey White and Richard Kendall
were tried at the Northampton Summer Assizes (1818), and
both hanged.
Leeds new Court House opened for public business, 5th
October, 1818.
James Bowling, formerly proprietor and editor of the Leeds
Mercury, which he revived in 1767, died April 80th, 1818.
August 8th, 1818.— Died Thomas Fenton, Esq., of Rothwell
Haigh, aged 85.
In October this year, 1814, the Asylum at Wakefield was
ordered to be built; and in November the Wakefield Bible
Society was established.
On the 24th of December, 1814, Joseph Blackburn and
Thomas Wainwright, two attorneys at Leeds, were committed
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to York Castle for forging deed stamps ; they were tried at the
following March Assizes, and Blackburn was hanged.
Daring this year local silver tokens were called in, and there
was a great noise about Johanna Southcote.
February 27th, 1815.— William Hepworth, a shoemaker, did
penance in the parish church for defaming the character of an
old woman named Elizabeth Blacketer. They both lived in the
Cock-and-Swan yard, Wakefield, and the suit was carried on by
George Robinson, an attorney, out of spite to the cobbler.
[In the Wakefield churchwardens' accounts between 1780 and
1760, ** sheets " for penance in church are constantly mentioned.
In 1850 a shoemaker at Gloucester was ordered to do penance
in church for defaming the character of a young woman, the
daughter of an innkeeper. In addition to the penance, he was
also mulcted in £12 costs. Can any one give later instances of
punishment by penance, and also state how the ceremony was
performed? In Scotland the delinquent had to sit on a low
stool in front of the pulpit, and after service, had to stand on
the stool and receive the minister's rebuke.]
A new organ opened at Rothwell Church, September 15th, 1816
A new peal of ten bells brought from the Old Navigation
Wharf to Wakefield Parish Church, November 80th, 1816.
In December, 1816, Captain Magill was elected Governor of
Wakefield Prison, in the room of Strawbenzee. Magill was
carried by a majority of one vote.
September, 1818. — Mr. Oddie, of Woodlesford, drowned at
Filey.
July 16th, 1819.— Kean played Richard III., in Wakefield
Theatre.
August 18th, 1819.— Matthews played at Wakefield.
September 7th, 1819, appeared the first number of the West
Yorkshire Gazette, published by Greaves and Kemp, of Hudders-
field and Barnsley.
Trial of Henry Hunt commenced at York, before Mr. Justice
Bayley, March 16th, 1820, and lasted nine days.
March 24, 1820, appeared the first number of the Wakefield
Chronicle, published by Rich. Nichols. It only lived a few weeks.
First stone of a new church at Stanley laid by Francis Maude,
Esq., who died the 19th of April, 1842.
November 18th, 1821.— This morning (being Sunday), Wm.
Webber, the clown at a circus in Wood Street, was found dead
in the area of the south end of the new Music Hall (then in
course of construction), in Wood street, Wakefield.
May 1st, 1822. — I took the old Library, Crown-court, for
offices.
June 20th, 1822.— Godfrey Wentworth, of Woolley Park,
married his cousin, Miss Fawkes, of Farnley Hall, who died
9th July, 1842.
42 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
April 3rd, 1822. — Wakefield Gas Company's Act passed, and
the town first lighted with gas 81st January, 1828.
April 12th, 1823. — James Ramsden and Robert Gill hanged
at York, for breaking into the shop of Mr. Bright, silversmith,
at Doncaster.
June 28th, 1828.— The weather-cook of Wakefield Parish
Church taken down and carried through the street, accompanied
by a band of music.
June 15th, 1828.— James Bigmore, the American pedestrian,
ran ten miles in fifty-seven minutes, upon Westgate Common.
March 28th, 1824.— John Carr, of Horbury, formerly an
attorney at Wakefield, died, aged 61.
June 1st, 1824. — John Berry (writer hereof) admitted a soli-
citor of the High Court of Chancery.
February 19th, 1825. — John Travis Thompson fell out of one
of the attic windows at the Wool Packs Inn, Wakefield, in his
sleep, and was killed.
Leeds (Haigh Park) races were run, the first time in June,
1825, and the last time in 1829.
July 23rd, 1825. — Appeared the first number of the Bradford
and Wakefield Chronicle,— Stansfeld and Son.
No drought equal to that of the present year (182G) in this
country since 1762, in which year there was no rain from the
3rd of May to the 19th of July.
November, 1827. — A day coach, called The Tradesmen, driven
by a drunken fellow named Dick Bather, was returning from
Wakefield to Leeds, and upset going down Bell-hill, at Roth well
Haigh, owing to the fault of the driver, and several passengers
were severely injured. Mr. Cope, an artist, of Leeds, was killed.
February 8rd, 1829.— Celebration of Bishop Blaize at Wake-
field.
November 14th, 1829.— Madam Yestris played at Wakefield.
Lord Wharncliffe burnt in effigy at Wakefield for voting
against the Reform Bill in ye Lords, Ootober 6th, 1881.
March 10th, 1882.— Petty Sessions first held at Dewsbury.
June 24th, 1882.— A poor man in New street died of ye
cholera, and another in ye House of Correction.
July 4th and 5th, 1882.— Wakefield Fair held at the bottom
of Westgate, and Bradford Sessions held at Wakefield, owing
to the Cholera in the House of Correction.
July 9th, 1882.— John Wood, of Blacker Hall, married Sarah
Coldwell, .... a very clever woman.
October 26th, 1882.— Owing to a dense fog this night the
London mail from Leeds was an hour and a half behind its
time into Wakefield, and Jaok Upperdale was engaged to walk
before it with a lantern all the way to Barnsley.
[When opposition coaches were running between Leeds and
Wakefield, it was a custom for young men to run in .front on
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dark nights, and carry aloft a blazing piece of tarred rope. Two
or three usually accompanied the coach, and relieved each other
by alternately riding and running. On one occasion the man
with the flambeaux led the coach into a ditch ; but no serious
accident occurred.]
June 2nd, 1888. — This day three men were dip't into the
river Calder near Dirtcar, the Bev. Mr. Hattersley officiating —
curious adult baptism.
April 25th, 1885. — Wm. Atkinson, a clerk in the Eegister
office, was struck blind by lightning whilst looking out of a
window.
September, 1885. — The Duchess of Kent and her daughter,
the Princess Victoria, afterwards Queen, visited York Festival,
and on tbe 14th passed through Wakefield on their way from
Harewood House to Wentworth House. They called at Mrs.
Hargraves* house at Sandal.
July 81st, 1887.— -Election riots at Wakefield. Mr. Carter,
of Ossett, killed, and many people injured.
November 8th, 1887. — George Dyson, an attorney at Halifax,
elected a Coroner for the West Biding, in place of Michael
Stocks, resigned.
November 18th, 1887.— The first number of the Xortlieni Star
(published by Feargus O'Conner,) appeared.
May 24th 1848.— Martha Kaye, of Nether Thong, my aunt,
died.
June 24th, 1848. — Thomas Bish worth, formerly a banker at
Wakefield, died at Hemsworth, upon a small farm, in his 72nd
year.
June 25th, 1848.— The Bev. G. C. Davies, minister of Holy
Trinity Church, preached his farewell sermon. He was the
first minister at that church, esteemed by his congregation, but
ill-treated by his brother clergymen, and especially by the Vicar.
July 1st, 1848. — Zion Chapel, Wakefield, which was built in
1782, having been pulled down in order to be enlarged, the
first stone of the new building was this day laid by the Bev. J.
D. Lorraine.
September 18th, 1848. — Bichard Everingham died, aged 98.
May 18th, 1844.— Died, Sir John Lowther, Bart., of Swil-
lington House, aged 85. His widow died on the 19th (six days
after), aged 77, and they were both buried together at Swilling-
ton Church.
On June 1st, 1844, two women were attacked and worried by
a bear, kept in the Zoological Gardens, in Back lane, Wakefield.
One of them died on the 9th.
July 9th, 1844.— The Church Sunday Scholars had a cheap
ride by railway to York to see the lions there. [Can any reader
of Notes and Queries give earlier instances than this of " cheap
trips M from this neighbourhood ? See Addenda.]
44 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
July 20th, 1844. — First marriage celebrated in the Wealeyan
Chapel, West-parade, Wakefield, the Rev. J. Pitts officiating.
July 27th, 1844.— James Cook opened an extensive Circus in
Wood street ; closed on September 14th following.
August 19th, 1844. — Died in the Wakefield Poorhouse, aged
40, Henry Rishworth, formerly an attorney, and son of Thomas
Rish worth, the banker.
August 20th, 1844. — Married, Thomas Nicholls, jun., book*
seller, to Ann Gregory, both of Wakefield, at the Unitarian
Chapel, this being the first marriage solemnised in that building.
March 21st, 1845.— Died, George Westerman, aged 84, the
oldest woolstapler in Wakefield, if not in the West Riding. He
was buried inside Wakefield Church on the 26th.
July 12th, 1845. — The Leeds Mercury began to give a supple-
ment, and increased the price from 4£d. to 6d.
July 12th, 1845. — Bradshaw's Railway Gazette first published.
October 3rd, 4th, and 5th.— The Wakefield Troop of Cavalry
on permanent duty at Wakefield. On the 5th their captain
(T. Taylor) treated them with a dinner at the Strafford Arms.
October 18th, 1845. — Ben Dunnill, late postman at Horbury,
opened his public house in York street. There were donkey
races, and a leg of mutton on a pole.
1845. — A Trial day for the Manor of Wakefield, there not
having been one for a long time — 11 causes before George
Wailes, Esq.
Easter Sunday, April 22nd, 1848.— The Chapel of Wakefield
Bridge, having been repaired, was this day opened for divine
service as a Chapel of Ease for the recently appointed district
of St. Mary's.
Feb. 1852. — The vicarage of Wakefield sequestered by the
West Riding Bank, and the Rev. Samuel Sharp's furniture sold
by auction by John Becket.
July 28rd, 1852.— Wakefield New Boro' Market opened.
Addenda Copied.
1729, April 15th.— Mr. Scott, Vicar of Wakefield, died.
1781.— A great thunderstorm that broke the windows in
Wakefield Market and tore one corner of the Cross to pieces.
1787. — Wakefield Workhouse erected.
A Cheap Teip Fifty Years Ago. — With my father, I went
from Leeds to Hull by a cheap trip on Good Friday, 1885.
The journey was made from Leeds to Selby by railway, thence
by steamer (the Adelaide) to Hull, where we arrived, I think,
about two o'clock. At six we started on the return journey,
getting to Leeds about midnight. The prices I do not remem-
ber.—J. W.
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Bullhouse, a name familiar to the student of Nonconform-
ist history, has recently acquired a publicity of a sad character
in connection with the awful railway accident, which happened
on July 16th, 1884. The line passes within a few feet of the
Chapel built by Sir Elkanah Rich, and near to Bullhouse Hall,
the residence for many generations of the Eich family, of which
the late Lord Houghton was a descendant. Situate on the
easterly termination of an elevated ridge which stretches away
to the moors, the view along the valley of the Don, from its
source near Dunford Bridge to where the tower of Penistone
church stands conspicuous, is varied and highly picturesque.
In the deep clough below, the village of Thurlstone, birthplace
of that wonderful genius, Dr. Nicholas Sanderson, the blind
professor of mathematics, occupies the sunny slope ; further
along the same hillside is Netherfield Chapel, where the Bev. W.
Thorp, previously of Burton -lane-head Chapel, and subsequently
of Chester and Bristol, ministered. In the valley, encircled by
a bend of the river, stands Water Hall, one of the seats of the
Wordsworth family, whose names appear in transactions connec-
ted with the parish as far back as 1585. On the brow of the hill
opposite stands the fine old Parish church of Penistone, wherein a
tablet records the gift of £500 by Samuel Wordsworth, merchant
of London, and one of £200 by Josias Wordsworth of the same
place. The poet Wordsworth and the late Bishop of Lincoln
were descendants of a collateral branch of the Wordsworths of
Water Hall.
Behind and above Penistone the moorlands rise in un-
dulating masses from the Little Don to Derwent Edge, an
elevation of nearly 1,800 feet; to the south of Bullhouse,
Hartcliff with its tower, from whence on a clear day York
Minster may be seen, reaches an almost perpendicular height
of 1,176 feet. The old coach road to Manchester, passing
within a stone's-throw of the Chapel, goes by Koad End, where
lived and died " Billy Wilson, " the celebrated violinist, and so
on across the moors, by Gallows Moss to Saltersbrook, one of
the highest inhabited places in the kingdom.
Returning to Bullhouse by the valley of the Don, we pass
Hazlehead, the residence of Captain Adam Eyre, who served
in the Parliamentary Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax. Mr.
Hinchliffe, Lord Houghton's tenant at Bullhouse, is owner of
the adjoining colliery and gannister works. The Hall has
recently been renovated, and some fine oak panelling in some
of the rooms has been brought to light. The Chapel is a plain
and substantial stone edifice, built, like the tower of Penistone
Church, of the rough grey stones, called " earth fasts," gathered
from the surface of the moors.
JOHN WOOD.
46 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Bullhouse Chapel was built soon after the Revolution. It is
about two miles from Penistone. Mr. Sylvanus Rich, of
Bullhouse, was buried December 26th, 1683, aged 60. His
uncle, Daniel Rich, was buried October 1, 1679, aged 76.
They were friends of the Rev. Oliver Heywood. In 1689, July
81st, the house of Mr. Elkanah Rich, called Benthom, in
Pennistone, was recorded at the Sessions as a place of worship
for protestant dissenters, at the request of Francis Haigh and
Isaack Wordsworth. Several other houses were recorded in
that neighbourhood, as given in Heywood's Xonconfonnfot
Register. The Chapel was registered at Pontefract Sessions,
April, 1692, in the following words — "A new house at Bull-
house in Penistone.' ' The above Register, in addition to notices
of the Rich family, states that " Mr. Daniel Denton, Chaplain,
to Mr. Rich, of Bullouse, died ffebr. 18, [1720]," and " Mr.
Wm. Haliday, minister at Bullous, died in Halifax, December
11, 1741, of a few hours' illness." Mr. Heywood records that
" Mr. Henry Swift, Vicar of Peniston, died suddenly, Oct. 81r
1689, aged 68," and in his Diary, he adds — " of twenty-four
houres sickness." August 29th, 1678, Heywood records in his
Diary — " Mr. Hancock and I preacht at Mr. Rich's house at
Bulloughs, had a full assembly, some [Divine] assistance,
lodged there." " Mr. Rycroft, minister at Peniston, born near
Ulingworth, (Nicolas Rycroft, his father, yet living), buryed
Oct. 1688." Mr. Heywood frequently visited other families
about Penistone, as recorded in his Diaries. The Rev. Henry
Swift was ejected from Peniston or Penistone Church in 1662,.
and suffered three months' imprisonment in York. He returned
to his charge, and held the living until his death, without
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further molestation ; the powerful families of the district being
his supporters. Daniel Denton was the minister at Bullhouse
some years between 1700 and 1720, the date of his death. In
1715 he had a congregation of 200 persons. William Halliday's
name is the next that appears on the list, though it is possible
some names are omitted about 1692 and 1722. The names of
Messrs. Rayner and Lewis occur incidentally. The Rev.
Benjamin Shaw was minister in 1748, and died there in 1771.
He was succeeded by Thomas Halliday, who had previously
been at Eeighley, and also a pupil and tutor at Daventry. He
removed in 1798, and engaged in business in some iron-works,
but failed in 1810. (Monthly Repository, 1825.) We last
hear of him as an Arian preacher at Diss, in Norfolk. The
Rev. Reyner, from Northowram Academy, succeeded
for a short time, and a Mr. John Hewitt also preached some
time. Whether the place is Unitarian or Wesleyan now, or
both, seems doubtful from Miall's account in Conyretjationalism
in Yorkshire. We arc indebted to Mr. Wood for the picture of
this old sanctuary. Ed.
ANCIENT SESSIONS NOTES EXTRACTED FROM
THE ORIGINALS.
Old Soldiers.— A Treasurer was regularly appointed for the
Lame Soldiers' Fund. The applicants, of course, are such as
fought on the side of " Charles I. of Blessed Memory."
Babwick-in-Elmet. — Petition of Martin Hague of this place,
soldier under the Rt. Wpfull. Sr. Richard Hutton, and was with
him at Atherton, Bradford, Burlington Key, Rotherham, and
Tadcaster, in his owne company, 1675.
Thomas Cowpland of Barwick-in-Elmet, souldier under Sir
Ric. Hutton'8 owne company of foott, and with him at Wake-
field, Atherton, and Bradford feights, and also under Sir Walter
Vavasor's Regiment of Horse in Capt. Adam Bland troop of
Horse and was at seige of Kingston upon Hull, Selby fight,
Bowton, Berrey, Leapoul in Lancastershire and also at Halsome
moore feight, 1675, petitioned for pay.
John Haigue of Barwick in Elmet, souldier under Sir Phillip
Monckton at Willoughby fight and Pontefract Castle and under
Col. Morris at Pontefract Castle, 1675.
Wetherby. — Robert Wright of this place, soldier under Capt.
Croft in Ld. Langdale's Regimt., served several years and never
deserted, was at several battles and received many great
wounds, begs to succeed the late Thomas Hardacres as a pen-
sioner. Mr. J. Beilby adds : "He served under my brother
for some time." 1677.
48 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES*
Fenton. — George Buck of ffenton humble petition to the
honoble and right Wpfull his Majesties Justices of Peace at the
general Sessions holden at Pontefract, 1676, Humbly sheweth
unto yo. hono. That your poor Peticonr is growen very infirme
and lame and hath lost his eyesight, and were disabled in his
Maties service in the late unhappy W aires, and served under
Captaine Edward Stanhope, Esq., in his company of ffoote for
several yeares, in the Ecgiment of Sr John Ramsden ; and
under Capt. Morritts company, after the said Captaine Stanhope
was chosen a C omit tee man, being alwayes faithfull to his
Maty, and never disserted his service, though he received
several maimes and wounds in the same ; being growne very
poore, and in much want as will appeare by severall sub-
stantiall men's hands hereunto written. May it therefore
please yor. hono. to admit him as a Penconer in the first
vacancy. And he as in duty bound shall ever pray. Certified
by George Stanhope, &c.
Skipton. — Major Wharton of Skipton, foot soldier for Charles
I., served under Henry Lord Clifford, late Earl of Cumberland,
1671.
Samuel Constantino, Gent., (residence not given,) petitions
for a pension. He joined Capt. Cuth. Wade's Dragoons, and
afterwards fought under the Duke of Albemarle and spent his
estate, 1675.
John Kay, soldier, as Trooper in Lord Savil's troop, under
Capt. Thomas Shildon, Mr. John Coppley, of Batley, being his
Leivetenant. Joined his Maj. Standard, att Nottingham, '42;
afterwards in Prince Rupert's Regiment at the battle of Edghill,
wounded and imprisoned. Pont. April, 1680.
Almondbury.— William Kay, of this parish, having received
wounds in tbe services of Charles I. and Charles II., and de-
siring to travel to St. Thomas' Hospitall, in Southward, where
he hopes to bee cured of his lamenesse, received an order at
Leeds Sessions, July, 1677, requiring all Constables and officers
to suffer him to pass from Almondbury to London, the direct
way,, peaceablye and quietlye he demeaning himself truely and
honestly in his said journey as beehoves him.
Wee desire yt proclemation may forthwith be made yt noe
new pension can be admitted, nor gratuities granted by reason
wee find yt ye Act of Plmt. is expired soe yt they need not at-
tend. And yt likewise the Cheife Constables for the whole
West Ryd. doe forthwith attend at ye Starr. Pontefract, 1680.
Captain Wm. Stringer with the Lieutenant, three Sergeants
and 46 under officers of this company of Sir Rich. Atkins regi-
ment, owned before me their consent to serve their Majs. Wm.
and Mary, May 29, 1694, Jasp. Blythman. Halifax and Brad-
ford men who listed under Thomas Lord Fairfax and Sir
Richard Atkins, sworn, Leeds, Aug. 1694.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 49
Local Notes:
Huddbbsfxzld. — It is ordered that Bradley Wood, in this
parish, be assessed to the poor according to law, and the pro-
portion of the assessments are referred to the two next justices,
and Sr. Lyon Pilkington or his agents to have notice. —
Pontefract, April, 1692.
Gekktland. — John Clay, of Clayhouse, to have his goods
distreyned restored to him, and Jeffrey Bambsden and John
Greenwood to be rated in his stead. — Wakefield, January, 1682.
Stanley. — Will Armitage has begun to sink a colliery. The
coale lies very deep ; at great charge drawing water night and
day, and it hath been drowned by six weeks together, and by
reason of the wettnesse of the worke the workes fall, and part
of the coale is gotten where he diggeth, whereby he is out of
purse £40, and hath received noe profites answerable to the
charge expended. He is over-assessed at £20 per ann. for the
said colliery. He hath been distreyned the worke- tools. — 1688.
E aland. — James Cawbord states :— " Your petitioner is as-
sessed for a coalmine, and there is not any assessed in the
whole vicaridge of hallifax but one in the same towne, and your
petitioner has had a great deal of damage by the work falling
in this last yeare. Prays that he may nott for the future be
assessed, whioh will be very hard upon him/' Ordered to be
assessed at xx nobles p. ann. — Wakefield, Jan., 1682.
Samuel Jowett, of Ealland, is assessed to the full vallue of
his rent for a mill in Elland, and there are severall hand mills
lately erected and sett up in the constablary of Elland aforesaid
which takes away the soake from his mill. Ordered to be as-
sessed according to the rent v li per ann. land and mill. —
Wakefield, Jan., 1682.
Long Pbeston. — The minister and churchwardens testify
that all galds, sesses, and taxes divided to our severall con-
stablrys in manner and forme followinge : Long Preston 8d.,
Hellifield 8d., Wiglesworth 2, Westhalton 1. Ordered that the
book of rates be made accordingly. — Skipton, July, 1691.
Half Towns. — The constables of the Half Towns of Wike,
Shipley, Eccleshill, Marsden, and Heckmondwike petition to
have the book of rates revised so as to ease themselves. — Wake-
field, Oct., 1691.
Cloth Manufactube — Joseph Jackson, Leeds, with engines
did stretch and strain cloth. Wakefield, Oct., 1678.
Rowland Dodsworth, Leeds, stretching and streyning cloth.
Leeds, 1679.
Thomas Gibson, of Burgwallis, did mix with his wool, pitch,
tar, Under, shanks, and other deceivable things. 1677.
Numerous records of burial in woollen, as required by late
Act of Parliament.
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SO YORKSHIBE NOTES AND QUERIEB.
Counterfeiting several of his Mats. Cloth Seals. 1675.
We read of woollen cloth called Halfthick. 1692.
James Lambert is mentioned as master of the Company of
Clothiers ; and one of the searchers of 'oloath' within the town
of Holbeck also referred to. 1677.
The humble petition of sevrall of the Inhabitants, clothdressrs
within the sevrall Townes of Halifax, Eland, Norland, Sowerby,
Warley, Skiroote, Northowrome, Southowrome, and Hipper-
holme. Humbly sheweth, That his maties officers appointed
for the Collecoon of his Maties duty of Hearth money within
the said sevrall Townes have for the two last halfe years de-
manded duty of sevrall of the aforesaid Inhabitante for their
Charcole fires for their hott presses for the pressing of Cloth
and hav distreyned vpon such as have refused and forced them
to pay ffoure shillings for every such prtended ffire, and also
other ffoure shillings for every distresse. And yor petitioners
further shew that there were never before any duty paid to his
Matie or demanded for such Aires either within the said Townes
or at London, or in any other pts of this Kingdoms. Yor peti-
coners beg therefore to be relieved. Wakefield, Oct., 1687.
To the Bight Honble. and Bi — Majties Justices of ye Peace
. . . West Biding of York. The humble petition of the
Clot— subsisting by the Woollen Manufacture. Sheweth that
whereas a petition was the last sessions of . . . the Honoble
the Howse of Commons therein Assembl— the Merchants,
Clothiers, and others subsisting by the C — in the County of
Yorke wherein were sett forth some . . . the decay of Trade
and remedy intimated therein by • . . Company of Merchants
for the better regulacon thereof . . . petition annexed may
appear. And that Honoble Howse was then satisfie — yt peti-
tion ought not be answered, notwithstanding . . . informed
ye same persons intend to make another ... a recomenda-
con of such a position from this honob ... of that Howse
for this County would give it hopes for a better . . . address
themselves to this Honoble Bench for that purpose. And
whereas yor Petitioners whose subsistence and Livi • .
Manufacture are able and ready to sattisfye vr Hons th . . .
said trade ye underrating the commodity the lown . • . home
ye disparagent of ye manufacture abroad and yt the painefull
workemen have been occationed by th . . .the power for
which they seem to petition should be gra — Merchants it would
endanger an Ingrossing and Monop — Manufacture into a few
men's hands of what dest — yt will be yor petitioners humbly
refer to your wisdomes. . . Humbly pray that this Honorble
Bench would . . . petition of ye Merchants or others
tending . . . have heard yor petitioners reason against : —
John Sigston, Edward Parker, Tho . . . John Cowell,
ffrancis Jagger, John . . . ffranois Baylie, John Snawden,
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Joseph Sigston, Sam . . . ffrancis Swinbanke, Abraham
Smith, Robert . . . Thomas Turner, Will . . . William
Cowell, John Thoresby, James . . . William Bollon, James
Moxon, . . • William Dodgson, Micha . . . John
Tindall, Christopher Conder, Bicliar . . . Richard Smur-
fite, Richard Wilson, . . . Simon Jagger, Wm. Milner,
John . . . Thomas Hodgson, John Hunter. Endorsed:
The Court agrees that they will not signe any petition for the
Merchants till the cloathyrs have notice of the same. [Circa 167-]
To ye Honrble the Knights, Cittizens and Burgesses of the
House of Commons in Parliament assembled. The humble
peticon of the Merchts, ye Clothiers and others subsisting by
the Woollen Manufacture in ye County of York, Sheweth, —
That the said woolen manufacture had its birth and growth and
did for divers Ages flourish under a regulaoon and govermnt of
the Company of Merchants Adventurers of England where all
care and prudence was used to keep up the reputation and
prices of the English Manufacture in the hands of the English
to the extraordinary benefitt of the whole Kingdom in generll,
and the perticuler inoouragemt of yor Petitioners whereby the
occation alsoe of exporting wools and Fullers Earth was taken
away but by reason of severall late temporary suspentions of
the Charter of ye said Company, and alsoe as they humbly con-
ceive of the late libertye given Aliens to exports Woolen
Manufacturers on equall Tearme of Cuetome which the English
Merchts since that almost every Tucker and Cloth Dresser is
become a Factor for Aliens taking them into their houses and
instructing them in the mistery of the said woolen manmfacture.
The English Merchant is not only bereaved of his Trade which
is devolved into Forreners hands, but even those very Foreig-
ners study all contrivances to imitate the severall Draperies of
this Kingdom in their owne Countries, and have soe farr
advanced therein that the Trade of this Kingdom is extraordin-
arily decayed to ye great impoverishmt of yor petiooners, and
the prices of woole, the principal staple commodity of this
Nation, has fallen to halfe the vallew, to ye generall damage of
the whole kingdom. Yor petitionrs therefore humbly pray that
such regulation and government of Trade may be established
for the encrease of ye woolen manufacture and incouragement
of the English Merchant as by the wisdom of this Honorble
House shall seem meet. [Dated about 167-.]
Trades. — Samuell Brooke de Clifton, cardmaker, xx1*-* Mat-
theus Longley de Clifton, xu» and Joseph Green de Tong, xu»
as bondsmen. The said Samuell Brooke bound to appear at
Quarter Sessions for buying severall quantities of fforaigne yron
wyre for making of wooll bands ymported from pts beyond ye
seas, contrary to ye statute. Wm. Farrer, J.P., Wakefield,
January, 1681.
52 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Deborah Utley, of Stansfeld, for following the grocer's trade,
bound to appear. . 1678.
Crusade against persons following the butchers' trade, contra
statute, not having been apprenticed to it. Thirty so indicted
at Skipton, 1675, others frequently at sessions afterwards.
Order requiring the laws suppressing the planting of tobacco
in England to be more rigidly enforced. 1675.
The inhabitants of Silver street, in Wakefield, petition, reciting
that, time out of mind there has been kept a market for leather
in Silver Street, and they have erected stalls and shops, but
are now hindered by Mr. ffayle, Officer of Excise of Leather,
who threatened to prosecute the tanners if they sold any leather
there. Wm. Lawson, James Woollin, Rowland Burrow, Robert
Wilson. The markett hath alwayes been kept there. Thos.
Wilson, Joseph B arras, James Sill. Endorsed — The court is
of the opinion the market may be kept there.
ffranci8 Stubbs of Bawtry indicted for using the trade of a
cutler contrary to ye Statute. Doncaster, Oct. 1697.
Licenses as common badger, lader, kidder, carrier or trans-
porter of all manner of corne and grain in any market of the
realm. 1671.
R. H. of Ackworth, being a married man and above thirty
years of age, licensed to be a common drover and buyer of
cattel within the kingdom of England at the usual places. 1671.
The constables ordered to make search for guns, nets, bows,
greyhounds, &c, and report who had any ; and also inquire if
any servant had more wages than the Statute directed, and
also if harvest men or artificers received more : and masters
and servants forbidden attending any statutes, or meetings.
1671.
11 Midwifes to be licensed." 1695.
In 1695 labourers received as wages 7d. a day ; artificers Is.
2d. or Is. 8d. a day. In 1678 we find— Ghristr. Lee 5 dayes,
his man 4 dayes— 10s. 06d. ; 9 labourers 4 days, 18s. OOd. Chr.
Tyreman 6 days work 07s. OOd. These assisted at rebuilding
a bridge. J. H. T.
o
The Old Potters and Potteries op Yorkshire. — At the
present time, when the ceramic works of the past are so muoh
sought after, the information contained in the following articles
respecting the old potters and potteries of Yorkshire will doubt-
less prove acceptable, and may tend to elicit further particulars :
A Mr. Francis Place is said to have been the first to make
pottery and porcelain in Yorkshire, his operations being carried
on at the Manor House, York, from 1665 to 1728. With the
exception of the brief allusion to this manufactory by Horace
Walpole and Ralph Thoresby few particulars are on record.
Walpole, in his "Anecdotes of Painting," says that "Mr.
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Francis Place, a gentleman of Yorkshire, had a turn to most of
the beautiful arts." He painted, designed, and etched. He was
the younger son of Mr. Rowland Place, of Dinsdale, in the
county of Durham, and was placed as olerk to an attorney in
London, where he continued till 1665 ; in which year, going
into a shop, the officers came to shut up the house, on its
having the plague in it. This occasioned his leaving London ;
and gave him an opportunity of quitting a profession that was
contrary to his inclination, and of following the roving life he
loved, and the arts for which he had talents. Ralph Thoresby,
in his 'Ducatus Leodiensis,' often mentions Mr. Place with
great encomiums, and specifies various presents that he
made to his museum. He tells us, too, that Mr. Place discovered
an earth for, and a method of making porcelain, which he put
in practice at the Manor House of York, of which manufacture
he gave Thoresby a fine mug. From the same account we
learn that Mr. Place discovered porphyry at Mount Sorril in
Leicestershire, of which he had a piece to grind colours on.
This author specifies views of Tinmouth Castle and lighthouse :
the cathedral of York ; churches and prospects of Leeds, drawn
and etched ; and a mezzo tinto of Henry Gyles, the glass
painter, executed by Mr. Place. He also scraped three plates
of John Moyser, Esq., of Beverley, his particular friend ; of
Thomas Comber, Dean o£ Durham, and of Bishop Crew ; the
last is finely executed. Many sketches of castles and views
which he took in Wales, and of various other places in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, several of them well finished,
are extant, and have been engraved. A view of Scarborough
Castle was drawn as late as the year 1715. His prints are
very scarce. He seldom resided in London, and drew only for
his amusement, seldom completing what he undertook, and in
his rambles painting, drawing, and engraving, occasionally. In
the reign of Charles H. he was offered a pension of £500 a
year to draw the Royal Navy ; but declined accepting it, as he
could not endure confinement or dependence. InThoresby's
'Topography of Leeds' aire some churches by Place. Ames
mentions a print by him, which I have, of Richard Thomson,
from a painting of Zoust ; it is boldly done. Another is of
Sterne, Archbishop of York. He also did some plates of birds,
and the figures for Godartins's Book of Insects. Mr. Place
died in 1728 ; and his widow, by whom he had a daughter,
married to Wadham Wyndham, Esq., quitting the Manor House
in York, disposed of his paintings, among which were an
admired piece of fowls, others of flowers and fish, unfinished.
There are two heads of Mr. Place extant, one by himself, the
face only finished, and another by Murray." Thoresby, in his
"Ducatus Leodiensis," says: — "Wortley Parish. Here is a
good vein of fine clay that will retain its whiteness after it is
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burnt (when others turn red), and therefore used for the
making of tobacco pipes, a manufacture but lately begun at
Leeds. ... As to this manner of making of pipes I can
add nothing to what Mr. Houghton has writ in his very useful
collections for the ' Improvement of Husbandry and Trade ' (4
vols., No. 154), where he tells us also that the pint mugs and
even chinaware were made of this sort of earth, of which, saith
he, we may make as good in England as any in the world.
And this I am fully convinced of, having a specimen in this
museum, made of English materials, in the Manor House, at
York, by the very ingenious Mr. Francis Place, who presented
it to me with one of the outer covers (seggars) purposely made
to preserve it from the violence of the fire in baking." In the
catalogue of his museum, annexed to the same work, is de-
scribed " one of Mr. Place's delicate fine mugs, made in the
Manor House, at York ; it equals the true chinaware ; " and
Walpole, in the notes to his account of Mr. Place, after
remarking that "his pottery cost him much money, he at-
tempted it solely from a turn to experiments ; but one Clifton,
of Pontefract, took the hint from him and made a fortune by
it," says " I have a coffee cup of his ware ; it is a grey earth,
with streaks of black, and not superior to common earthenware."
This cup was sold at Strawberry Hill, and is now in the
Museum of Practical Geology, with an old pasteboard label
attached to the handle and inscribed, probably in Walpole's
hand-writing, " Mr. Francis Place's china." It is of very fine
stoneware, of light fabric, but perfectly opaque.
A manufactory was in existence at Leeds as early as
1760, two brothers, named Green, being the proprietors.
Black Egyptian ware seems to have been the chief article pro-
duced. About 1775, Messrs. Humble, Green & Co. began the
fabrication of the noted cream, or Queen's ware, invented by
the great Josiah Wedgwood, and made it an especial branch of
their business ; but it was reserved for their successors, Messrs.
Hartley, Greens & Co., to bring it to the high state of perfection
that it afterwards attained. The latter firm published illustra-
ted pattern-books entitled — "Designs of sundry articles of
Queen's, or cream-coloured earthenware, manufactured by
Hartley, Greens & Co., at Leeds Pottery, with a great variety
of other articles. The same enamelled, printed, or ornamented
with gold to any pattern ; also with coats of arms, ciphers,
landscapes, &c, Leeds, 1786." An edition in German bears
the early date of 1788, and a French copy 1785. The partners
in 1788-4, composing the firm, were, William Hartley, Joshua
Green, John Green, Henry Ackroyd, John Barwic, Samuel
Wainwright, Thomas Wainwright, George Hanson, and Saville
Green. In 1800 two fresh partners joined the concern, Ebene-
zer Green and E. Parsons. A very extensive business was
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carried on, but in consequence of disagreements among the
numerous persons interested, the concern was thrown into
Chancery, and in 1825 it was purchased by Mr. Samuel Wain-
wright, and for a short time was styled " S. Wainwright and
Co." At his death in 1882 the trustees carried on the business
under the style of the "Leeds Pottery Company," managed by
Stephen Chappel, and shortly after the whole concern was
transferred to Stephen and James Chappell, and continued by
them until 1847, when they became bankrupt. The assignees
carried it on for a few years, managed by Mr. Richard Britton,
and in 1850 Mr. Samuel War burton bought the works in
partnership with Britton, under the style of "Warburton,
Britton, & Co." Of the many kinds of goods manufactured at
the Leeds works, those sent out by Messrs. Hartley, Greens &
Co., command especial attention. Nothing can exceed the
Quality of material and the beauty of the workmanship displayed
in the many really exquisite examples that are preserved in
public and private collections, particularly in regard to the
Queen's ware. This ware bears considerable resemblance in
the paste to Staffordshire Queen's ware; but differs in the
colour of the glaze, which is of a mellower kind. The perforated
or pierced work is characteristic ; although apparently of infinite
variety, it is confined to a few patterns repeated over and over
again. The embossed festoons, masks, flower and figure knobs,
the pressed rims, the twisted handles, terminating in floriated
work, are all finely modelled, and frequently tinted or lined in
different colours. Specimens in wicker work and plain ware,
painted or enamelled with flowers and insects, partly gilt and
ornamented in transfer printing, as well as figures and groups
are met with. Ciphers, mottoes, and rhymes are of frequent
occurrence on the Leeds wares. A jug in my collection is
inscribed : —
" In God will
I trust."
Another in the possession of Miss Hainsworth, of Bingley, who
informs me that it was made for her grandmother, bears the
following lines : —
" A present for Sarah Hainsworth
Steal not this Jug my honest friend
For fear the gallows be your end
And when you die the Lord will say
"Where is the Jug you stoal away."
It is to be regretted that a complete list of the figures, busts,
and groups, has not hitherto been made, as the subjects were
various, and generally of a superior order; specimens, well
authenticated as of Leeds manufacture, fetch high prices when
offered for sale; China, or porcelain, was also made at Leeds,
but at what period it was introduced I have not been able to
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ascertain. A friend of mine, however, who was employed at
the works, when nnder the management of Stephen and James
Chappell, and who left in 1846, the year before those gentlemen
were declared bankrupt, testifies to its production at that time.
Marked specimens of Leeds ware are seldom met with, the mark
generally found is the name of the pottery, impressed in full,
" Leeds Pottery." Sometimes it is repeated and arranged in
the form of the letter X. Other examples are " L. P." (Leeds
Pottery) and " L. P. C." (Leeds Pottery Company). A rarer
type is "Hartley, Greens & Co., Leeds Pottery.'* The
letters " G. and G.,M surmounted by a crown, " C. G." (Charles
Green) and " C. G." with " W." underneath, and an arrow-head
are now considered as early marks. The horse-shoe is another
mark found impressed on the Leeds ware. I have a jug in my
collection ornamented with raised thistles and roses, on the
bottom of which is the letter " G." enclosed by the Masonic
symbols, the compass and square embossed ; a mark that may,
with great probability, be attributed to Leeds.
J. £• Preston.
Village Feasts. — Information is desired relating to the
origin of any of the Yorkshire village feasts, tides, wakes,
thumps, rants, and rushbearings. Inquirer.
/
^ fehs tHEorba tm lift Jglfot.* .
By Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A., &c.
THE occurrence of a Fylfot of remarkable, if not unique,
character, on one of the fine old sculptured crosses in
which the Isle of Mann is so peculiarly rich, affords oppor-
tunity which I gladly seize, of giving in the first number of
" The Manx Note Book," a few words upon that figure and on
its meaning and symbolism. The stone to which I allude is at
Onchan, and is, so far as I am at present aware, the only
instance of the occurrence of a Fylfot on any of the ancient
sculptured stones on the Island. On some others, as I may
possibly take occasion to point out, the ornamentation partakes
of the Fylfot form and feeling, but no other distinct and clear
example I believe occurs.
The slab, of which an engraving appears on Plate VI. of
"The Runic and other Monumental Remains of the Isle of
Mann," by my friend the late Rev. J. G. Cumming, bears, in
relief, a cross, with surrounding circle and shaft, whose entire
surfaces are covered with an elaborate guilloche pattern, the
intricate interlacing of which is well defined. This shafted
cross occupies about two-thirds of the length of the slab, and
•The occurrence of the Swastika on the rooks at Hkley suggested the
reproduction of this valuable article in our pages. — Ed.
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is surrounded by an outline terminating in a scroll on each
side at the foot. On either side the shaft is a grotesque
animal, and at the foot a line of scroll-ornament, from which
rises, on each side, a simple band terminating in scrolls behind
and above their heads. On the lower part of the slab below
the scroll-ornament base of the cross, and entirely clear and
distinct from it, and independent of all other ornament or
device is the Fylfot to which I am about to direct attention ; it
is placed somewhat diagonally upon the plain portion of the
slab, and measures about a foot from limb to limb. This
Fylfot which, as I have said, is remarkable if not unique in its
development, I have had engraved on Fig. 17. It is, as will be
then seen, formed of four crozier-like limbs whose shafts
intersect each other in the centre ; the scrolls being three-fold.
The "Fylfot," "Fytfot," " Gammadion, " or "Thorr's
Hammer," as it is variously called — "the dissembled cross
under the discipline of the secret " — is one of the most curious
and ancient forms of cross, and its mysticism and symbolism
are very marked. By some writers it is said to be formed of
four gammas conjoined in the centre "which, as numerals,
expressed the Holy Trinity, and, by its rectangular form,
symbolized the chief corner-stone of the church "; by others, to
be formed of the two words su and asti, meaning " it is well,"
or " so be it," and implying complete resignation. From this
the Swastika*, the opponents of the Brahmins, received their
name ; " their monogrammatic emblem, or symbol, being the
mystic cross p^J formed by the combination of two syllables su
x U = suti, or swasti." With all this, however, I have nothing
to do on the present occasion. Heraldically, the Fylfot may be
described as a cross cramponnee, or rebated. In its proper
proportion, as I have on other occasions shewn, it is a square
area divided into twenty-five square parts (i. e., five each way)
thus (Fig. 1) of which seventeen form the figure.
_i
i
Fig. 1.
Rg. 2.
Fig. 3.
It is, therefore, simply a plain Greek cross, or cross of St.
George, composed of nine of these squares (as in Fig. 2.) with
the terminations of the limbs rebated and continued to the
outer edges of the general square, as shewn on Fig. 8. Or, in
other words, it is a plain cross of five squares within a border
of similar squares from which the fourth (or second) on each
side has been omitted. In this, its simple form, it occurs as I
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shall presently show, from the very earliest times from which
art-relics have come down to us and among nations and peoples
far removed from each other in their geographical distribution,
in sentiments, and in religion.
In northern mythology the Fylfot is known as the Hammer
of Thorr, tbe Scandinavian God, or Thunderer, and is called
" Thorr's Hammer " or the " Thunderbolt." The same is said
of the Tau which, though somewhat hammer-shaped according
to our form of hammer, bears no possible resemblance to the
ancient emblem of the thunderbolt. The Scandinavian god
Thorr, whose day Thornday or Thursday stands between those
of his father (Wodin or Odin, Wodensd&y, Wednesday,) and
mother (Fria or Friga, Friday, Friday) was " the bravest of
the sons of Odin" and "believed to bee of the moste marvellous
power and might ; yea, and that there were no people through-
out the whole world that were not subjected unto him, and did
not owe him divine honour and service; that there was no
puissance comparable unto his. His dominion of all others
most farthest extending itself, both in heaven and earth. That
in the air he governed the winds and the cloudes ; and being
displeased, did cause lightning, thunder, and tempest, with ex-
cessive raine, haile, and all ille weather. But, being well
pleased by the adoration, sacrifice, and service of his suppliants
he then bestowed upon them most faire and seasonable weather ;
and caused corne abundantly to growe ; a? all sorts of fruites,
&c; and kept away the plague and all other evill and infectious
diseases." The emblem of this god, Thorr or tbe Thunderer,
was, as I have said, a thunderbolt or hammer of gold, which
hammer was frequently represented as a Fylfot. His hammer,
it is said, had the peculiar property that whenever thrown it
never failed to strike the object at which it was aimed and
always returned or flew back to his hand.* This property will
be recognised as similar to that of the boomerang ; and here,
surely, as I have already on another occasion advanced, we
have a curious and interesting insight into the origin of the
form of the emblem itself. As I have just said, the fylfot is
described by some writers as being formed of four gammas
conjoined in the centre. The form of the boomerang, some-
thing like a letter V with a rounded, instead of pointed
bottom, bears a marked resemblance to the ancient gamma,
and it is a missile instrument, which on being skilfully thrown,
slowly ascends into the air, whirling round and round till it
reaches a considerable height and then returns, until it Anally
sweeps over the head of the thrower and strikes the ground or
* His weapon being a thunderbolt it was of course bat natural that a
belief should spring up that it returned to him after striking where aimed,
else, how could he again throw it ?
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other object behind him. When this power, and the form of
the boomerang, are remembered in connection with the tra-
ditional returning power of the hammer, the Fylfot may surely
be not inappropriately described as a figure composed of four
boomerangs conjoined in the centre OO an<* thus emblema-
tise the " Thunderer's " power. This form of Fylfot is not at
all uncommon on early examples from Troy and other places
and countries. It is indeed simply the ordinary Fylfot with
the angles rounded almost as though formed of two
S's crosswise.
The Fylfot is found on early Scandinavian, Danish, Indian,
and Gaulish coins, as well as those of Syracuse,
Corinth, and Ghalcedon. It is also occasionally
found on Anglo-Saxon coins; on one of these, of
the sixth or seventh century, the rebate of each
of the limbs does not start from quite the top,
and is pointed. Some of the ancient Danish
*%• 7- coins on which the emblem appears, bear also
the name of Thorr in runes.
One of the most remarkable assemblages of objects of high
antiquity upon which the Fylfot appears is that of the terra-
cotta whorls, pottery, and the like, brought to light by Dr.
Schliemann, and figured in his work upon Troy and its Remains.
With regard to these the doctor remarks that he had frequently
found both the f£| and the Ijjg on remains during the course
of his excavations without at first being able to understand
their meaning. After researches in different works, however,
he came to the conclusion "that both the ^ and the flJ
which he found in Emile Burnouf s Sanscrit Lexicon under the
name of Suastika, and as to the meaning of = — , or, as the
sign of good-wishes, were already regarded, thousands of years
before Christ, as religious symbols of the very greatest import-
ance among the early progenitors of the Aryan races in Bactria,
and in the villages of the Oxus, at a time when the Germans,
Indians, Pelasgians, Celts, Persians, Sclavonians, and Iranians,
still formed one nation and spoke one language ; " and he pro-
ceeds to cite a vast number of instances in which he, in the
course of his investigations, has found it occurring. Without,
however, following him, or Emile Burnouf, or Max Miiller, or
other works, to which those who wish to pursue the subject
further may be glad to refer, but from which space would not
allow me to quote, I will proceed to give a few examples that
will be useful for reference and comparison.
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occur in the Catacombs
of Rome. The Colchester
vase, so called because it
was found in the Roman
Cemetery, which formed
the site of West Lodge,
near that city, where it
had been used as a sepul-
chral urn, bears as one of
the three groups with
which it is decorated, a
representation of a combat
between two gladiators —
a SectUor and a Eetiarius.
The former, wearing a
close helmet and armed
with sword and shield, is
advancing upon his con-
„ quered adversary prepared
Fig. 20. The Colchester Vase. ^ gtrike the ffttftl Mo^
while the latter, who has been vanquished, has dropped his
trident and is elevating his right hand to implore mercy from
the spectators. It is on the shield of the Secutor that the
Fylfot occurs and is probably there placed as an emblem of
asserted power and victory. Over the head of the Secutor are
the letters memn - n - sag - vi in, which (taking it for granted
that the a in sac should be e) has been read as Memrdvus [or
Memnon] numeii secutorum victor ter,
or, "Memnius [or Memnon] of the
number [or band] of secutors,
conqueror thrice " ; over that of
the Retiariusj valentinv leoionis
xxx, meaning, clearly, " Valentinus
of the thirtieth legion," who was,
doubtless, the vanquished one
whose figure appears. On another
vase, which I give as a companion
to this (Fig. 21), a nude figure is
represented holding the thunder-
bolt.
From the time of the Romans,
or, earlier still, from that of the
Norsemen, the Fylfot has, in one
way or other, been used down to
the present day in our own country.
Besides the earlier examples to
which I have referred, and many
others that could be cited, it is,
later on, found on a shield on the
Fig. 21.
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Bayeux tapestry (Fig. 22), and, later still, is not unfrequently
met with on monumental brasses and sculptured effigies of
ecclesiastics, military and laymen. Thus, on the examples
here engraved (Figs. 28 to 27), it forms, on the brass of
Thomas de Hop (circa 1800) a priest, in Kemsing
Church, alternately with quatrefoils, a border on
the collar of the chasuble; on that of Richard
Hakebourae, in Merton College, on the border of
the collar and sleeves; on the collar of the chasuble
of the brass of Walter Frilend's, at Oakham,
Surrey, and John Alderburne at Lewknor and
others ; and on those of Bishop Branscomb, Sir
John D'Abernoun, and many others. It may,
probably, have been adopted by Christians through
its consisting of four gammas, which, as numerals,
expressed the Holy Trinity, and, by its rectangular
form, symbolized the chief corner-stone of the
Church.
Fig. 22.
Ifflfflffl
Pig. 23.
Pig. 26. Fig. 27.
The Fylfot either in its simple f^J form, or of more or less
complicated development pU or combined with other Figures,
was also a favourite device upon mediaeval bells, and enters,
not nnfrequently, into the marks adopted by their founders,
more especially those of the midland counties of England. Of
these, I give engravings of one or two examples on Figs. 80 to
Fig. 30.
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82. As the ringing of the Church bells in times of tempest
was superstitiously believed to drive away thunder, probably
Fig. 31.
the old Thunderer superstition that had not died out of the
popular mind might have had something to do with the putting
thereon the sign of Thorr, who was
i^-^x ^| y( believed to have power over storms
Ifj) 1 1 1 / and tempests, and of himself throwing
U-^ I t=^4 1 the thunderbolts.
I have said, perhaps, enough on the
u subject to show that more than a pass-
u"" 1 (1 ing interest attaches itself to even so
r ■ j; — '1 apparently trivial a matter as the oc-
currence of an out-of-the-way ornament
on a slab in a village church-yard, and,
I trust, by so doing I may lead others
to examine more closely the remains of
Fig. 82. past ages that are spread so lavishly
over the length and breadth of the Island, and to note their
peculiarities, trace out their symbolism and hidden meaning*
and give to the world the-result of their researches.
The Hollies,
Driffield, Derby.
Baildon. — I am collecting materials for a History of Baildon
and the Baildon Family. I shall be very grateful for any
information. Palet Baildon.
19, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn,
London, W. C.
Darton Parish Begistebs. — Have the Registers of Darton,.
near Barnsley, been published ? E. H. — S.
65
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Y.N.Q.
96 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
&b* #t0ratrian £tUkmtnir |faln*rk, fjorksljir*.
A chapter of Yorkshire history that is now very much needed,
and that ought soon to be written, is that of the Work of the
Moravian Brethren in this County, which began as far back as
the year 1788. It is not for me to say who shall write this
Chapter, but I have not the least hesitation in saying that the
Rev. A. C. Hasse, a Moravian Minister and Bishop of the
Church, is the gentleman most competent for such a task. Not
only does he possess the necessary materials for it, but he has
also the enthusiasm of a genuine antiquary, and a reverence
for the marvellous labours of the early Brethren, that would
enable him to infuse the true spirit of the historian into his
writings.
Having said so much I dare not venture further, on this head,
unless I may be allowed to give expression to the hope that
this useful and necessary work may not be delayed too long.
Mr. Hasse has laboured long and industriously in gathering up
the fragments that go to make a complete whole, and if the
compilation and completion of the work be not carried out by
him who else can be found able and willing to do it ?
In the absence of a complete narrative of Yorkshire Moravian
history, one has, of course, to be thankful for any small con-
tributions that may come in one's way. Perhaps one of the
best of these is the pamphlet that was issued at the time of the
celebration of the Centenary Jubilee of the Brethren's Yorkshire
Congregations in 1855.
From this source we learn that in 1788, John Toeltschig, one
of the Brethren, and son of a magistrate in Moravia, was sent
to Yorkshire, at the Bev. Benjamin Ingham's special request,
to aid him in the work of evangelisation which he was carrying
on here. He was followed in 1741, by Peter Boehler, a learned
and pious man among the Brethren, and at the head of the
Fetter Lane Society in London, connected with which were
John and Charles Wesley, and many Moravians from Germany.
This body of Christian labourers included about fifteen preachers.
In 1742, a number of them accompanied Toeltschig into York-
shire, taking up their abode first at Smith House, Lightcliffe,
the residence of a Mrs. Holmes, whose husband had visited the
Brethren in London. By the next year 1748, they had no less
than 47 meeting houses or preaching stations ; several of which,
in later times, developed into "settled" congregations, such as
those now existing at Wyke, Wellhouse, Gomersal, Baildon, &c.
The land for the Fulneck settlement was purchased by the Bev.
Benjamin Ingham, for the Moravians, in January, 1744, and
at Candlemas, (Feby. 2) one month after the purchase, the
Brethren moved into the houses upon the top of the hill, one of
which was adapted for a dwelling for the "labourers/1 and
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another fop a meeting room. The whole tract of land, which
now forma the gardens, meadows, and plantations of the Ful-
neck settlement, was then one wild, uncultivated common,
covered with briars and brambles. Applicable, truly* were the
words of the prophet to this chosen spot; "Instead of the thorn
shall eome up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come
up the myrtle tree."
The name given to the new settlement was first Lamb's Hill ;
afterwards it received the name of Grace Hall, and about 1763,
the name of Fulneck. It was in May, 1746S that the site was
consecrated, and the foundation stone laid by the brethren
Toeltschig, Oekershausen, and Hauptman. In March, 1748,
the portion set out for the labourers was finished and im-
mediately occupied. The whole was completed in June, and
was solemnly consecrated by Johannes de Watteville, assisted
by Peter Boahler. The Organ was erected the same year by
Snetzler, the most eminent Organ builder in England, at that
period. The pulpit was not erected till 1750, and the first
preacher who occupied it was the gifted Benjamin La Trobe.
The foundation stones were laid of the two houses (called the
Choir houses) for the brethren and sisters by Count Zinzendorf,
and his Bon Benatus, in 1749, though they were not completed
until 1752. In 1767, the Sisters' house being fall, a large house
at Little-moor was rented for their accommodation. The burial-
ground was consecrated 1749. From 1750 to 1758, the terrace
and gardens were laid out. The boys' school was built in 1785,
and enlarged in 1818 ; and in the year 1800, Sunday Schools
were established by the Bev. John Hartley.
In order to carry out the original plan of a settlement and to
find employment for the brethren and sisters living at Fulneck,
diaconiea or establishments for carrying on different trades
were commenced. The brethren's house began the clothing
business in 1756, and subsequently a worsted and glove manu-
factory, a farm, a public bakehouse, a tailor's, and a shoemaker's
business ; while in the sisters' house were carried on different
branches of needlework and hosiery trades.
Truly marvellous must have been the faith of the Moravian
brethren, who in the face of peculiar trials and discouragements,
could set about the erection of Chapels, Ministers' houses,
Choir houses, and Schools, at a cost of not less than £15,000,
and this at a time when there was no wealthy religious public
to appreciate and sympathise with their efforts.
Dear and venerated spot, what memories of eminent and
worthy men are written in its very walls! Well might the
Brethren of to day delight to honour the names of men like
Zinzendorf, Spangenberg, and Boehler. Fulneck has, indeed,
a history of which it may well feel proud. A long list of great
and. good men,, who received their education within its seminary,
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might easily be made, but it will suffice to enumerate — Richard
Oastler, the "Factory King"; James Montgomery, the poet ;
Edward Atherstone, author of " The Fall of Nineveh/' &c;
John Edwards, the poet ; and members of the distinguished
La Trobe family. W.8.
We are indebted to Mr. J. J. England, of Upper Wortley,
for a copy of the rare German print of Fulneck. Mr. England
has done most valuable service for the future History *of Mora-
vianism in Yorkshire, by his superb, artistic sketches, of which
he has published the following: — Yorkshire Moravian Preaching
Houses, Fulneck, (various views), Little Horton, Baildon, Well
House, Heckmondwike, Wyke, Gomersall ; with Fairfield,
several views, and Ockbrook. Kirkstall Abbey is the subject
of two other of Mr. England's sketches. We can thoroughly
endorse from personal acquaintance, our correspondent's re-
marks as to the pre-eminent fitnesa of Bishop Hasse as the
Historian of the Brethren, and hope the Yorkshire Section is
far advanced in his hands.
Common-land Tbrms. — Could you kindly refer me to any
book or pamphlet, where I can see a good account of what are
called " Reins," boundaries or divisions of land. W.B. — A.V.
(Seebohm's Villaqe Gommnnitin. Any other book ?)
High Sunderland is an ancient mansion, about a mile from
Halifax, on the old Bradford Road, and seems to be so named
from its high situation, and on account of the land being
sundered, or separated, for some purpose or other. The reason
for this name is now lost, and it must have originated in Saxon
times, judging not only by the etymology, but from the fact of
High Sunderland being mentioned in the Manorial Bolls,
yearly, from 1800. It is just without the jurisdiction of the
gibbet-law, yet we scarcely think this fact can have any relation
to its sundered position.
Watson thought that the present edifice was reared about
1597, being the work of Richard Sunderland, who married
Susan Saltonstall, or of his son Abraham, who married Eliza-
beth Langdale, but more probably the latter, because the arms
of Saltonstall and Langdale, impaled with those of Sunderland,
are found in the windows. A pedigree of this family, with the
descent to the present time, and a portrait of the local worthy,
Captain Langdale Sunderland, will be given in an early part.
The house has been highly decorated, and some statues and
busts still remain. Under the arms of Saltonstall, Langdale,
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and Thornhill, (of Fixby, whence Langdale Sunderland fetched
his wife,) in a cnamber window, is the couplet, —
Felix quern virtus generosa exornat avorum,
Et qxii vtrtute suis adjicit ipse decua. L>S.
(Happy is he whom the illustrious virtue of his ancestors
adorns, and who, by his own virtue, adds lustre to theirs.)
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Thus we see that Langdale did something towards beautifying
the ancestral home. He resided afterwards at Coley Hall, as
recorded more folly in Captain John Hodgson's Memoirs. Over
the North door at High Sunderland, is the inscription,
Ne subeat glis serdus (surdus) ;
and over another door on the north side,
Ne intret amicus hirudo.
At the back part of the house are four English lines too
coarse for publication. In the hall, over the fire-place,
Maxima Domus utilitas ; et pernicies, Ignis et Lingua.
(Houses when large yield comfort ; fires and tongues carry
destruction with them.)
Over the south door :
Hie Locus i *' ftmftt> punit, conservat, honorat
(Nequitiem, pacem, crimina, jura, probos.
Confide Deo, Diffide Tibi.
This Place I hates loves punishes preserves honours
(profligacy peace crimes justice the good.
This inscription is on the Town House at Delft, in Holland,
and Glasgow Town Hall, where bonos appears for probos. A
pillar on the left hand of the south door bears the words — Patria
Domus, and on the right side— Optima Caelum. On the south
front:
Omnipotens faxet, stirps Sunderlandia sedes
Incolet has placide, et tueatur jura parentum,
Lite vacans, donee fluctus formica marinos
Ebibat, et totum testudo perambulet orbem !
(The Almighty grant that the family of Sunderland may
peaceably possess the mansion and preserve the rights of its
ancestors, till the ant drink up the waters of the sea, and the
tortoise traverse the whole world.) The disasters of the civil
war thwarted this comprehensive wish, for Langdale Sunder-
land was reduced to the necessity of selling his ancestral home,
and also Coley Hall, to the Hortons. Over the principal gate-
way is :
Nunquam hanc pulset portam qui violat aquum.
(Never may he who violates justice seek to enter this gate.)
On the same is a cherub sounding a trumpet, and on a scroll :
Fama virtu turn, tuba perennis.
(The fame of virtuous deeds is a perpetual trumpet.)
We are indebted to J. Whiteley Ward, Esq., of Halifax, for
the following abstract, tracing the property to the present day.
18 May, 1796. At a Court Baron held at Wakefield, for the
Manor of Wakefield, on this date, Thomas Horton, of Hound-
hill, in the County of York, Clerk, came before the Steward,
with the consent and approbation of Sir Watts Horton, of
Chaderton (or Chadc/erton), in the County of Lancaster, Bart.,
(the eldest son and heir-at-law of Sir Willm. Horton, Bart.,
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deceased, and Grandson and heir-at-law of Thos. Horton, Esq.)
and took of the Lord of the feaid Manor —
All the copyhold portion of the houses, farms, lands, and
premises, situate at High Sunderland, in Northowram, in
the Graveship of Hipperholme, in the parish of Halifax.
All which said premises had been then lately seized into the
hands of the Lord of the said Manor, for that he, the said Sir
Watts Horton,* had leased the same by an Indenture, dated
the 2nd March then last past, to his youngest brother, William
Horton, of Chadderton, Esquire, for a term of twenty-one years,
" without fine thereof made with the Lord of the Manor afore-
" said, in contempt of the Lord, and contrary to the custom of
"the said Manor, as at Court Baron called at Wakefield
" aforesaid, in and for the said Manor, of the 2nd day of March
" then last past, by a certain Inquest then sworn for the Lord
" of the Manor aforesaid, it was found and presented ; where
" upon proclamation was openly made and published in three
" usual Courts holden at Wakefield aforesaid, that if any persons
" would claim to hold of the Lord of the Manor aforesaid, all
" the said premises, with the appurtenances, and for the same
"pay and perform to the Lord of the Manor aforesaid, the
"rents, fines, and services therefor due and accustomed, they
" shall come in and be received, and nobody did claim the said
"premises except the said Thomas Horton . . (one of the
"brothers of the said Sir Watts Horton,)" who was thereupon
admitted tenant of the said premises, in trust for the said Sir
Watts Horton.
8th May, 1798. By a deed of this date, made between Sir
Watts Horton of the first part, the Bev. Thomas Horton of the
2nd part, and the Bight Hon. Edward, Earl of Derby, the Bev.
Geoffrey Hornby, Bector of Wittwick, Lancashire, and George
Lloyd, of Manchester, Esquire, on the 3rd part, the property
was mortgaged by Sir Watts Horton to the Earl of Derby, Bev.
G. Hornby, and G. Lloyd, as Executors of the Will of the
Honourable Elizabeth Horton, the late wife of the said Thomas
Horton. [This Mrs. Horton was the sister of the Earl of Derby.]
29th March, 1808. Sir Watts Horton having sold the pro-
perty to William Walker, of Crow NeBt, near Halifax, Esquire,
it was conveyed to the latter by a deed of this date, to which
the mortgagees (Mrs. Horton's Executors as above) were parties*
19th August, 1809. Mr. William Walker, by his will of this
date, gave the property to his Nephew, William Priestley*
27th May, 1811. William Priestley was admitted tenant of
the property, under the will of Mr. Walker, at a Court held at
Halifax, on this date, for the Lord of the Manor of Wakefield.
• Sir Watts Horton appe&ro, from a deed dated 27 May, 1778, to bare
dcmed his title at a mnoh earlier datei
72 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
9th Dec, 1858. William Priestley (described as " of Boston
Spa, better known by the name of Thorp Arch, in the County
of York, Esquire,") by his will of this date, gave all his real
estate to his Nephew, John Bawson, of Brockwell, in Sowerby,
in the parish of Halifax, who was admitted as tenant at a
Court held at Wakefield, on the 18th January, 1861. [Wm.
Priestley died 1 April, I860.]
3rd June, 1861. By Indenture of this date, John Rawson
conveyed the property to Evan Charles Sutherland- Walker,
then of Crow Nest, near Halifax, Esquire, who sold it to the
present owners, Messrs. Ward, in 1866.
In the conveyance to Wm. Walker, (29 Mch., 1808,) there is
a covenant by Sir Watts Horton, to produce the following title
deeds, which were retained in his possession, viz.,
1709, Aug. 24th & 25th. Indentures of Lease and Release
made between Thomas Horton, of Chadderton, Esq., of the 1st
part, Bichard Mostyn, of London, Merchant, and Ann his
daughter, of the 2nd part, Sir Bichard Grosvenor, of Eaton, in
the County of Chester, Bart., and Sir Boger Mostyn, of Mostyn,
in the County of Flint, Bart., of the 8rd part, Bichard Mostyn,
of Pimbedow, in the County of Denbigh, Esq., Oswald Moseley,
of Ancoates, in the County of Lancaster, Esq., of the 4th part,
and Bichard Marriott, of Alcot, in the County of Gloucester,
Esq., and Edward Hopwood, of Hopwood, in the County of
Lancaster, Esq., of the 5th part.
1751, Aug. 1st & 2nd. Indentures of Lease and Release made
between the said Thos. Horton, and William Horton, his eldest
son and heir apparent, of the 1st part, Alexander Casson and
Bichard Casson, Gentlemen, of the 2nd part, and William Shaw
and William Furnival, Gentlemen, of the 8rd part.
Michaelmas Term, 25 Geo. 3rd.* Exemplification of a Re-
covery suffered in the Common Pleas at Westminster, wherein
the said William Shaw and William Furnival, are demandants,
the said Alex. Casson and Bichard Casson, tenants, and the
said Wm. Horton, vouchee.
1758, May 2nd & 8rd. Indentures of Lease and Release
made between the said Thos. Horton of the 1st part, Sir Thomas
Mostyn, of Mostyn, aforesaid, Bart., son and heir of the said
Sir Boger Mostyn, then deceased, who survived the said Sir
Bichd. Grosvenor, of the 2nd part, the said Willm. Horton (by
the description of Wm. Horton, Esq., eldest son and heir ap-
parent of the said Thos. Horton) and Susannah his wife, late
Susannah Watts, the niece and heir of John Watts, Esquire,
deceased, of the 3rd part, the said Edward Hopwood (who had
survived the said Bichard Marriott) of the 4th part, Joshua
Horton, George Lloyd, and Susannah his wife, Mary Horton,
Ann Horton, Jane Horton, and Sarah Horton, Spinsters,
*(?Geo.2nd.)
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(which said Joshua Horton is described to be the younger son,
and the said Susannah Lloyd, Mary, Ann, Jane, and Sarah
Horton, were the daughters of the said Thomas Horton, by Ann
his wife, deceased,) of the 5th part, Edward Gregg, of Chamber,
in the County of Lancaster, and Anthony Cook, of Hunslet, in
the County of York, Esquires, of the 6th part, and George
Legh, Doctor in Divinity, Yicar of Halifax, of the 7th part.
1778, May 26th & 27th. Indentures of Lease and Release
made between the said Sir Watts Horton of the 1st part,
Thomas Winckley and Walter Eerfoot, Gentlemen, of the 2nd
part, and the said Edward, Earl of Derby, and George Lloyd
of the 3rd part.
Trinity Term, 18 Geo. 8rd. Exemplification of Recovery,
wherein the said Edward, Earl of Derby, and George Lloyd,
are Demandants, the said Thos. Winckley and Walter Kerfoot,
tenants, and the said Sir Watts Horton, vouchee.
1791, Nov. 22nd. Deed Poll from said Thomas Horton, of
Whittington, in the County of Lancaster, Bachelor of Laws, to
the said Sir Watts Horton.
Same date. Deed Poll from William Horton, Esq., to the
said Sir Watts Horton.
1791, Sept. 24th. Indentures made between the said Susannah
Lloyd, the widow and relict of the said George Lloyd, mentioned
in the Indenture of 3rd May, 1758, Gamaliel Lloyd, Esq., the
said George Lloyd mentioned in the Indenture of 27th May,
1778, and Thos. Lloyd, Esquires, the Executrix and Executors
of the before mentioned George Lloyd, who survived the said
George Legh, of the 1st part, the said Thomas Horton and
William Horton of the 2nd part, and the said Sir Watts Horton
of the 3rd part.
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ANCIENT SESSIONS NOTES EXTRACTED FROM
THE ORIGINALS.
Burials in Woollen. — Account of moneys received by the
Overseers of Nun Monkton of my Lady Caney for burying
George Payler, Esq., her husband, in linning contrary to the
late Act of Parlmt. To John Bowser the informer 21. 10s. OOd.
total £5.
Ecclesfield, Oct. 14, 1678. A register of all burials there since
1 August; nine persons, Mr. Leonard Reresby being one.
Affidavits received by S. Slack, curate. Sworn before H. Ed-
munds, Esq., J. P.
South Kirkby, 1678. Burials in woollen. Testified by J.
Gibson, minister, before the Hon. Thomas Yarburgh, Esq., J.P.
Kippax and Meltham bills of burials in woollen as by Act of
Parliament. 1689.
Bbkad. — Robert Wells of Thome, 1670, charged under the
Assize of Bread.
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Coining. — The neighbourhood of Halifax was formerly noto-
rious for coiners. In 1685 a number of Ovenden men were
indicted at Wakefield for clipping money. Justices Horton and
Townely took evidence at Brighouse, July 2nd, 1691, respecting
Halifax coiners. A petition was presented at Wakefield, Octo-
ber, 1688, asking that 6ome remedy might be provided to enforce
persons to receive money in trading which may be cracked, if
it be ourrent coin. The noble was a common coin at that time,
and we find articles mentioned as " worth a noble of gould."
Quakrels. — Great quarrel between Mr. ffranois Leigh of
Midleton and Robert Baynes of Naustrope ; both bound to good
behaviour for twelve months. Wakefield, October, 1687.
Mr. John Dodsworth de Haddockstones in Markinton, gent.,
bound to answer charges brought against him by his son Mr.
Thomas Dodsworth of Morkar who is afraid that his father will
burn his barns, Ac, and complains that his father breaks his
windows and doores, and causes his servants to depart out of
his service. Enaresborough, October, 1677.
Rt. Hon. Arthur Lord Viscount Erwin bound in £600, and
obtained for bondsmen Arthur Ingram of Thorpe, gent., and
William Nevill of Holbeck, gent., in £250 each ; Lord Erwin to
appear for striking Sir William Lowther, J.P., in open court
without any provocation. Leeds, July, 1693.
Berzilla Habergham of Clay House, for setting a pair of tup
horns vpon Jos Smithson's House at Ealand, indicted. Wake-
field, Oct., 1690.
Mrs. Catherine Palmes, a Roman Catholiok, now living at the
house of Mr. Thomas Waterton of Walton in ye westrideing,
hath by undue means and practices got into her custody Ann
ffranees Stringer (an infant), daughter of William and Christa*
bella Stringer, gentleman and gentlewoman, protestants, and
detains her from her mother ; ordered that she be given up.
Sr John Powell, Justice of Assize. Wakefield, Oct., 1690.
Allan Cockin of Barnby upon Dunn, beinge clarke to Roger
Portington, Esq., J.P., came to Pontefract Seas, with some
recognizances and about other business, and lodged at the
house of John Bracebridge in Pontefract, and beinge gone to
bed a minister of great Stature unknown to this informant
came into this informants lodginge roome and finding him in
bed fell upon him violently and caught him by the throat and
offered to throttle him, whereupon this informant struglinge
got out of bed from the said minister, who pursued this infor-
mant, threw him upon another bed, and was lifting up his hands
to strike when one Mr. Gaythorne of Pollington in the other
bed got hold of the said minister's hands and persuaded him to
forbeare this informant, before which time the said minister had
alsoe seized this informants breeches and about ten shillings in
money therein, besides other things in his pockets, and refuses
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to deliver them, but took up this informants bedd, and still this
informant alsoe wants his hatt, stockings, boots and other
things in the said roome. This is endorsed " Against -Henry
Crabtree of Stansfeld Hall." (169-) ? Author of "Almanack."
Robbkbibs. — Highway robbery between Laughton in le Morth-
ing and Firbeck by two men on horseback armed with swords,
pistols and carbines like soldiers, each of them having on a
breast belt and white coats, having their faces disguised, who
took from Thomas Bate of Aughton six pounds. Petitions for
the loss to be repaired. The Earl of Holderness and others
testify to the good character of Bate. Pontefract, April, 1690.
Sometimes these petitions were rejected on the ground that it
was only a pretence of being robbed on purpose to obtain an
estreat on the wapontake, each being responsible for robberies
within its boundaries if the person robbed raised hue and cry.
£21 estreated on Agbrigg and Morley for Edward Kenyon,
who had been robbed. Wakefield, Oct., 1694.
Bobbery committed upon Yallerius German icus Hailes, ser-
vant to Mr. Burrows, being moneys of Sir Richard Lloyd, 1675.
The amount, £327, estreated on Strafforth and Tickhill.
James Maylins, Apothecary, Botherham, robbed at Maltby
Wood. £280 estreated on Strafford and Tickhill, 1676.
Henry Sykes and Joseph Millner apprehended at Earlsheaton,
and afterwards suffered death for horse stealing and as high-
waymen. Leeds, July, 1687.
Constables. — Petition from Carus Philipson, vicar, and eight
others of Almondbury for a Constable, as the late one died a
week before this application, and the Lady of the Manor refuses
to call a court as her steward resides at a great distance and
the weather is unreasonable. Jan. 1689. George Sykes, senr.,
appointed by the Justices.
Mr. Jarvis Cornewell, Cheefe Constable, and six others from
Swinfleet and district, summoned for jurors, excused the fine for
lateness by reason of ye great watr. Doncaster, Jan. 1681.
Thomas Pease of Ossett, Constable, indicted (1) for refuseing
to sett much and trrw/, (2) not keeping a cucking stool, (8) not
repairing the butts. Wakefield, Oct., 1690.
Constables were sometimes indicted for neglect of duty. They
had frequently disagreeable tasks to perform. 1671 — Each
Constable received orders from the respective Chief Constables
as required at the Sessions, to search for guns, bows, nets,
greyhounds, &c. ; to enquire if any artificer, harvestmen, or
servant had more wages than the statute allowed. In 1688 they
had to search for conventicles and take two persons with them
as witnesses. " The Constable of Hipp'holme cm Brighouse
answer to the Want from the Cheefe Constable to the said
Constable directed, April 16th, 1688—
Noe Papist recusant found upon last search.
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Noe popish priest within our Constably.
Nor Jesuits.
Noe absenters from divine service nor any vnlawfull assem-
ble. John Kershawe, Const.*' 1688 — Constables to search
for all rogues, beggars, petty chapmen especially those of the
kingdom of Scotland.
Petition of Ester Bramhall reciting That Nicholas Bramhall
yor peticoners husband was made Constable of Huddersfield
for this psent yeare and yor poore petitioner being a poore
widdow hath noe sonne to suply the office her sonnes being
little boyes, and the townesmen doe charge yor poore petitioner
to provide a man to pforme the office for the residue of this
yeare begs that another may be elected. Pontefract, April, 1681.
Privileged Places— Otley. — The freeholders, &c, of Otley
are not to be summoned to be jurymen &c, at Sessions, being
under his Grace the Archbp of Yorks liberty. 1679.
Howley. — Abraham Harrison of Howley Hall (one of the
servts of James Lord Viscount Savile, Earl of Sussex) being
appointed Collector of the psent three months Assessmts of the
Boyall Ayde for Morley, Howley Hall, however, being a privi-
ledged place and that noe psons liveing at Howley Hall ought
to serve any office within the constableiy of Morley, the warrant
was suppressed and Robert Morley of Morley appointed under
the hands and seals of Sr John Armytage, Sir John Kaye and
ffrancis Whyte, Esq., 1665. Ordered also that he be freed from
keeping any town apprentice.
Kirk Burton. — Petition reciting that temps Elizabeth there
was a ffivepenny rate in the Book of Rates for £. Burton towards
Agbrigg and Morley, and at Quarter Sessions held at Leeds,
Oct. 5, 24 Chas. I., to remain soe according to a survey called
Barnards Survey, since which time by some mistake or other
(ffor there was noe order for an alteration) the rate is 7jd. to
the great grievance and overcharge of the poor. — Leeds, July,
1691.
Bothwell. — Petition stating that about 100 years since it
was decided to divide that large Constablery into three parts —
Bothwell and Boodes, Owlton and Wodleford, Lofthouse and
Carleton ; now improperly rated. — 1675.
Heptonstall. — Petition for a proper assessment. Pontefract,
1680.
Cawthobne.— Petition of Mr. Christopher Walbank, curate
for seventeen years past, to be freed from poor rate and an
apprentice. Pontefract, April, 1680.
New Mellkb Dam. — Francis Nevyle, Esq., having two water
corn milne8 att New Miller Dam in Sandall rated at £100 a
year, states that they do not make more than £40 a year. 1678.
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Laweton. — This Constablery being very large and vast, they
petition for three constables, or the Constablery to be divided
into three. 1676. J.H.T.
Woolcombkrb Fifty Years A oo. — Perhaps some remi-
niscences from the life of a woolcomber fifty years ago might
not be ont of place at the present time, for the reason that the
people of to-day have scarcely any impressions brought before
them of the habits of life and the thought of that time. The
woolcomber stands out in bold relief, a kind of rough sculptured
work, when compared with the machine-hand of the present
day, and therefore he ought not to be lost sight of when looking
over the varied phases of manufacturing life. The combers
were mostly drawn from the agricultural districts, attracted by
the promise of high wages, and the chance of being put into an
independent position. These promises were sounded far and
wide, so that in a brief space of time men were brought to
Bradford from great distances. They came from Kendal, North
Yorkshire, Leicester, Devonshire, and even from the Emerald
Isle, so that to spend an hour in a public-house (soon after the
passing of the Act to be drunk on the premises,) you might, when
they had footings in, havo heard all sorts of dialects and
jargon, and when disputes arose as to who was the best work-
man, there would be volleyed forth regular hurricanes of oral
disputations. There might have been seen in front of any
public-house constantly piled up large numbers of combers
"fadges," as the employers of that time were not afraid to trust
the strangers with combs and charcoal, oil, soap, and various
other sorts of material, to take home at their own risk, and
scarcely any of them but what returned the "dozen " of wool.
Now, the woolcomber, as a rule, brought his country habits
with him. His attachment to rural affairs may be borne out by
the fact, that in hay-time and harvest he used to lay aside his
woolcombs, and take up the scythe and sickle, and go down into
the low country a-harvesting. He was also very fond of trying
his strength at all kinds of athletic sports. He was, as a rule,
a bird fancier, and made his comb-shop into a regular aviary.
Two combers having a short " confab" about birds, one said to
the other, "Jem, I naw wat ad happen if awther on us belonged
to EsholtHall." "Wha, wat?" rejoined Jack. "Wha, we
sud spend t' main of our time e' catching larlcs! " Some of the
combers had a great talent for elocution, and could recite with
wonderful power, and with such models before them as the
elder Eean, Young and Holloway (?) they had opportunities of
witnessing histrionic displays such as people of the present
time have no conception of. There was also great taste dis-
played by some of the combers in the walks of art ; and, if not
original in their work, some of them were marvellous in their
efforts at copying pictures in oil colours, and, as they were
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under no surveillance, therefore, when under inspiration, down
went the combs and up went the palette, although at the risk
of being "pent" at " carrying-day.' ' He made up his lost
time by " waking " or lighting up, so as to " 'liver in " on a
certain day. In politics the comber was somewhat of a Demo-
crat, and if he had been in the ascendant in these days of
strikes and combination, he would have been a formidable foe
to the lock-out system. He has left his work in that line on
record. It eame in with Tester and culminated with George
White, who sold their cause, like Esau's birthright, for a mere
" mess of pottage." Bradford Operative.
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Letter to Sib Wm, Calverley. — The following letter from
Sir Harry Wentworth, of Nettlested, county Suffolk, (ancestor
of the Barons Wentworth), addressed in 1497 to Sir William
Galverley, of Galverley, in Yorkshire, from whom descended the
extinct baronets of that name, is perhaps of sufficient local
interest to merit a corner in your " Notes and Queries" column.
The original letter, whioh is in the British Museum, is written
on a slip of paper measuring eleven inches by four inches, and
is signed by Sir Harry Wentworth :
44 Right wourshipfulle cousin, I recommend me unto you.
And where* it fortuned me in my retourne home from West-
chestre, to meit my lord Darby, my lord Strange, and other at
Whalley abbey, by whome I had the sight of such letters as
were directed unto theme from the kinges grace; apper-
ceyuing by the same that Perkin Warbeke is londed in the west
parties, of Cornwelle, wherfore I wolle pray you, and allso in
the kinges name aduertise you, to be in aredynesf in your owin
persone, with suche company as you make to serue his high-
ness, vpon an our{ warnyng, when his grace shalle calle vpone
you. For the which I doubte not but his highnes shalle geve
you thankes aocordinge. As our lord knoith, who preserne
you ! Written in the kinges castelle of Rnaresburght, the xvij
dey of Septembre.
" your [frend] and cosyne, syr
"Harry Wentworth.
" Addressed
44 To his wourshipfulle cosin syr William
Galuerley, knight, in haste."
* Whereas. + readiness. ; hour's.
8. Batneb.
References to Abdsley, near Wakefield. — In Domesday
Book, (1086) as 4( Erdeslau." In Nomina Villarum, (1284) as
" Herdeslai." In Kirkby's Inquest, (1284) as 4< Ardeslawe." In
Burton's u Monasticon" Woodkirk alias Woodohuroh, or West
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 79
Ardsley. In Whitakers " Loidi* and Efmete" as regards its Mo-
nastic origin and genealogical particulars of the Clergy and
lay-patrons. In Scatchtrd't " History of A.orky" under the head
of " Wood-church," and "Ardsley." The account of East
Ardsley is in several points incorrect and unsatisfactory. For
instance he states that the " old Hall at one extremity of the
Tillage," known as the residence of the Shaw family in the 17th
and 18th centuries, "was the Manor House." This is not correct,
the " Manor House " is an old thatched cottage about the mid-
dle of the village, just off the Wakefield and Bradford Road
and belongs to W. G. J. Dealtry, Esq., of Thorpe-on-the-Hffl.
Again, the rudely carved figure over the doorway of the " Shaw"
Hall is a talbot (hunting-dog) not " a griffin or dragon," the
former being the crest of the Shaws. He is wrong, too, in as-
serting that a CopUy built the Hall in 1622, which date appears
on a gable pinnacle. It is far more likely that a " Robert "
Shaw erected the mansion, whose Christian name "Robart,"
remains cut on the porch jamb, but the surname has been worn
away. The motto "In Domine confido, 1632" not 1652, is
•till visible. There are other points which exhibit the careless-
ness of Scatcherd in gathering information. The estate came
to the Copleys of Nether Hall, Doncaster, by the intermarriage
of a Robert Copley, in 1707, with Ellinor Shaw, the daughter
and last heiress of Robert Shaw, merchant, and therefore not
through the Saviles, as presumed by Scatcherd.
It is not quite true that " the Register goes no further back
than 1662, " marriages and burials of East Ardsley commence
in 1654, and the baptisms in 1662; West Ardsley in 1652.
"Banks' Walks about Wakefield," (1871) contains an account
of East and West Ardsley, which though somewhat brief, is far
truer, and more reliable, because for genealogical and ecclesi-
astical matters, free use has been made of the Registers, and
Heraldic Visitations, and Legal documents, <&c, which are the
true foundations of biographical history.
" Parson's History of Leeds," Vol. 2, page 11 , chiefly dilates on
the connection with Ardsley, of John Field, the " early astrono-
mer," and James Naylor, the "religious imposter."
"Taylor's Churches of Leeds," contains a compiled account
of the church affairs, parochial charities, and the more modern
perpetual curates.
"Ardsley in the Olden Times," a series of articles which ap-
peared in the East Ardsley Parish Magazine, from April, 1880,
to 1864, by John Batty, containing archaeological matters ;
a sketch of the Incumbents from the "Restoration," and
references to Parish Officials, culled from the Church Registers,
and from 17th and 18th century Gravestones, &c.
• "The Study of East Ardsley Town's Book, 1652 to 1696."
Two papers read in April, 1882, by Mr. John Batty, before the
80 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society, pretty folly re-
ported in the " Bradford Chronicle and Mail." These papers
chiefly dealt with the carious items referring to social manners,
customs, and punishments.
" Lawton's Collections," (1842), for account of East and West
Ardsley Churches.
" The Lay Subsidy Boll, (Bic. II.) 1879. Names of the Laity.
" The Subsidy Boll of Hen. VIH., 1522. Names of the
people of substance.
44 The Manor Court Bolls of Wakefield, take in " West Ardis-
lawe," but not East. The whereabouts of those including the
latter, are not at present known; probably with those of
Bradford, as the freeholders of East Ardsley had to attend
44 Sheriff's Turn," and " Court Leet," at one time held at Ad- I
walton, and latterly at Bradford. I understand that the ancient '
Manor Court Bolls of Bradford are deposited in the Becord
Office, London. •
44 The Hearth Tax Bolls " in the Public Becord Office, those
for 1666 and 1671-2, were published in the 4< Wakefield Herald."
44 The Poll Books," 1741 and 1807, for names of Freeholders,
their residences, and possessions.
I must not omit to say that the "Rectory Manor Court Bolls
of Wakefield," contain allusions to the living of East Ardsley,
for the reason that in 1660, it was endowed with certain copy
hold lands in Wakefield, and elsewhere, and at the decease of
an incumbent, the succeeding incumbent had to appear at
Court Baron to make surrender, to do fealty, and pay relief to
the Lord of Manor, in order to be admitted tenant.
44 Lewis's Topographical Dictionary, 1845." Church Statis-
tics, &c, population, charities, &c.
The 44 Liber Begis," Henry VIH. Trades, charities, early
valuation of benefice, Patrons, Dedication, name.
"Dugdale's Visitations," 1666; Glover's do., 1584-5; and
1612, St. George, give genealogical particulars of some leading
families. There is an allusion to " West Ardislawe," in the
Calendar of Charters and Bolls, in the Bodleian Library, Ox-
ford, 1878.
44 The West Ardsley Town's Book," contains a close list of
Churchwardens, Overseers, and Constables' names, from 1653
to 1802, and different Parish receipts,, and disbursements, from
1752 to 1800.
44 The East Ardsley Town's Book" also contains lists of
officials ; members of the " Trained Bands!"; those who received
44 Parish Apprentices," 1727 to 1818. 44 Workhouse" Accounts,
and Church Memoranda to 1848. 4( Valuation of the land and
housing in East Ardsley," 1774.
In the " Calendar of State Papers," 1656, is a reference to .
Woodkirh Fair in 1656, (Domestic Series), containing a petition
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 81
of the inhabitants wishing for its abolition, because of the rab-
ble and tumults caused by it.
In the " Church Begisters " are instances of Commonwealth
marriages before Justices. Those of tVoodkirk, from 1652, con-
tain the family names of Pickering, Marshall, Coppindale,
Thomlinson, Ac; those of East Ardsley, Graunt, Sunderland,
Greenwood, Elmsall a branch of the "ThornhilT' Elmsalls,
Smith or Smyth, of Heath, Shaw, Deighton, Hodgson, Nettle-
ton, Casson, Bay, of Howley. The marriage of Clifton
Wintringham, eminent Physician, with Elizabeth Nettleton,
also of Ann Oglethorpe, with a John Plantagnett, (alluded to
in the Wentworth Papers, and in Heywood's Diaries).
" West and East Ardsley Inclosure, 1829," (Leeds Mercury.)
The compiler of this account has a copy of the " Terriers " of
Glebe lands, for East and West Ardsley, for 1684, and abstracts
from those of 1781, 1809-17-25 ; also " copy of a petition of
Freeholders, of East Ardsley, 1721," for an augmentation of
the living, by an enclosure from the common of about 80 acres.
"Hunter's notes on John Field," the '* proto-copernioian of
England," who was buried at East Ardsley, 1586. The Editor
of the Yorkshire Notes and Queries has several notes on the
same family.
The field-names of East Ardsley, are noticed in Robert's
"Lofthouse," Vol. I, (1882), pages 6-11.
" Ardsley as a place name/' by John Batty, "Yorkshire
Weekly Post," July 8th, 1884. The different modes of spelling
the name from 1086 to 1664.
"The Old Hall, at East Ardsley," by John Batty, "Yorkshire
Post," Feb. 3rd, 1888, giving an archaeological description of it,
and some particulars of its former possessors.
The " Building News," of March 80th, 1888, published an
architectural sketch with details of ornamentations of East
Ardsley Old Hall, the drawings being executed bjf Mr. W. A.
Richardson, architect, of Bothwell.
Photos of the old and curious Church, pulled down in 1880,
may be commonly seen in the houses of the parishioners. Also
a photo of the Norman Doorway, restored and nicely inserted
in the present Church porch, is in the possession of the com-
piler of this account.
The " Wakefield Free Press/' Feby. 20th, 1886, contains an
article entitled " The Curiosities of a School Board Census,"
which furnishes useful social statistics of East Ardsley. — The
favourite and peculiar Christian child-names, prevailing sur-
names, and general remarks about the present condition and
future development of the place. In the same paper, July 24th,
1886.—" Annals of the Poor," founded on a large number of
certificates relating to the poor of East Ardsley from 1705 to
1826, in which are given a brief sketch of some of the Justices
T.K.Q. P
82 Y0BK8HIBE NOTES AND QUERIES.
of the Peace, a list of local Colliery Owners, Farmers, Crafts-
men, &c. Both articles were written by Mr. John Batty.
Ebkata : — " Ardsley, near Wakefield," " Notes and Queries "
section ;
On page 78, instead of " Nomitta," read " Nomina.*'
„ 79, 11th line, omit " W," and read " C. J.Dealtry,Esq."
„ „ 19th „ instead of " Domini," read " Domino/'
„ „ 48rd „ fill up hiatus with " June."
„ 80, 11th ,, omit " those including/1 and read " the
whereabouts of the latter."
East Ardsley. John Batty, f.b.hist.s.
%ivklttx ilnnturg.
By S. J. Chadwick.
They toke togyder theyr counsell
Bobyn Hode for to sle,
And how they myght best do that dede,
His banis for to be.
Than bespake good Bobyn,
In place where as he stode,
To morow I muste to Eyrkesley
Crafteley to be leten blode.
Syr Boger of Donkestere,
[And the pryoresse of Kyrkesley,]
There they betrayed good Bobyn Hode,
Through theyr false playe.
A Lytell Geste of Bobyn Hode.
Very few of the many persons who call at the ancient hostelry
of the " Three Nuns " at Nunbrook, ever stop to consider what
was the origin of the sign which looks down upon them from
the front of the Inn, nor do they trouble to think about the old
associations of the immediate neighbourhood. Most of them no
doubt believe that Bobin Hood lies buried in the adjoining park
of Eirklees, and some may have heard that he was bled to
death by a Nun, but very few persons indeed know that for
three centuries and a half there flourished in the immediate
neighbourhood a Nunnery or Priory of Cistercian Nuns or
" White Ladies " who were large landed proprietors and em*
ployers of labour in Mirfield, Hartshead, and other parts of the
country, and above all were proprietors of the living or rectory
of Mirfield, received the great tithes and the best part of the
income, and forced the parishioners to be content with a Vicar
whose poor stipend oonsisted of small tithes, Easter dues, and
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 88
sundry small pickings and formed at best but a starvation and
not a living. The Church of Mirfield was appropriated in the
year 1403 to the Priory of Kirklees, and constituted the best
part of its endowment until its dissolution in the year 1589.
As therefore there was such a close and intimate connection
between the Priory of Kirklees and the parish of Mirfield for so
many years, a connection which has unfortunately left its mark
to the present time inasmuch as the great tithes and other:
possessions of the rectory are still in lay-hands and were not
restored to the church at the dissolution of the Priory, it is
thought that some account of the Priory and its possessions
may be found interesting by the readers of this Magazine.*
Kirklees Nunnery was founded (so Dr. Whitaker says) in the
reign of Henry II, by Beyner le Fleming, who was a landed
proprietor in South Yorkshire, and siso in Hartshead and
Clifton, of which latter place he was Lord of the Manor. The
foundation Charter is pretty well known. It is given in Dug-
dale's Monasticon, vol. 5, page 739, and extracts from it have
often been published. By this Charter the founder grants to
God and St. Mary, and the holy women of Kuthales the place
in which they dwell, i.e. Kuthelagam and Hednesleya as the
water of the Kelder goes to the old mill and so by the road
which leads to the old mill to the rivulet of the rocky +
and so to Blackelana, and from Blackelana to Wages tan, and
from Wagestan by the boundary of Liversege, Herteshevet, and
Mirfield, the whole within the boundaries named in lands,
waters, pastures, meadows, woods, and plains. J And besides
these, 12 acres of land to be held of the grantor and ljis heirs
for the souls of his father and his ancestors for his safety and
that of his friends.
This Charter is without date and is confirmed by a Charter
of William Earl Warren, which is also without date ; there is
therefore some doubt as to the period of the foundation of the
Nunnery. Dr. Whitaker fixes it in the reign of Henry II, (1154
to 1189) but how he arrives at this conclusion, does not appear. §
There were no less than five Earls of Surrey and Warren bearing
* Mirfield Parish Magazine.
t Word here illegible, but in Dodsworth's Yorkshire Notes this stream is
called the river Petros&lanus. Query, is it the stream now called Nunbrook,
or perhaps the river Colne.
\ Note. — If we assume that Blackelana is Bleak Low Lane (a name still
appearing in the Ordnance Map of the district), and that Wagestan (the stone
by the way) is the old Saxon Cross known as Walton Cross, the stump of
which is still to be seen by the road side not far from Hartshead Church, it
is very easy to identify at the present time the boundaries here given. The
arernnference ot the property appears on the Ordnance Map at a rough guess
to be seven or eight miles, but a great portion of the land was waste.
% It is quite certain however that other Abbeys and Convents of this Order
were founded at this early date and even so early as the reign of King Stephen .
84 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the Christian name of William, and therefore the above con-
firmation gives very little clue to the date, as the first William
came over with the Conqueror, and the last died in 1240.
Another authority fixes the foundation of the Nunnery in the
year 1155, and Mr. Ismay, a former Vicar of Mirfield and a
zealous Antiquarian gives the date as 1286, but does not give
his authority. He was probably thinking of the date of the
Confirmation Charter of Henry III. which is 1286. Some per-
sons say that the Nunnery was a Benedictine one, but 'there
seems to be no doubt that it was Cistertian, * which was a
reformed order of the Benedictines and so called from Citeaux
or Cisteaux in the Bishopric of Chalons in Burgundy, where
this reform was first begun, about the year 1098.
John Stevens in his History of Ancient Abbeys, &c, gives in
vol. 2, pages 80-1, an account of the origin of Cistertian Nuns
with a full page illustration of a Nun in the garb of the Order.
He says, " The habit of the Cistertian Nuns is a white tunick
"or robe, a black scapular and girdle. In the choir most of
"them wear coules, others only mantles and the lay sisters
"have their habits of a dark colour. The novices are clad in
" white. Their observances were very austere. The first Nuns
"wore neither linen nor linings, they were employed not only
"in sewing and spinning, but they went into the woods to grub
" up the briers and thorns, they worked continually, they ob-
served much silence. There has been a great number of
" Saints and Holy Women of this Order, which number would
"be still much greater if we would allow of all those to whom
"their historians assign it but they must retrench some of
"them."
These Holy Women may well be said to have lived "In the
odour of Sanctity " which expression possibly originated from
the above mentioned practices of the first Saints of this Order.
The Cistertian Order was founded by St. Robert who at 15 years
of age was a member of the Benedictine Abbey of Montier la
Celle, afterwards prior thereof, and subsequently Abbot of St.
Miohael de Tonnerre, where he endeavoured to establish good
discipline but without success, the Monks thwarting him in his
good intentions. There is a curious account of Robert leaving
the Abbey and living with certain monks in the forest of
Molesme on roots, herbs, &c, and almost naked. Afterwards
with others altogether 21 in number, he settled at Cisteaux, on
the 21st March, 1098, being St. Benedict's day.
In the 26th year of the reign of Henry VIII an act of Parlia-
ment was passed granting to the Crown the first fruits of all
Bishopries, Monasteries, &c, and directing the Chancellor to
• It is styled Cistertian in the Pope's Boll for the appropriation of Mirfield
Rectory to Kirklees. See Whitaker's History of Leeds, page 864.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 85
appoint Commissioners in each diocese to enquire into their
yearly value, Ac. From the returns of these Commissioners we
obtain the following particulars of Cistertian Monks and Nuns
in "Yorkshire.
Cistertian Monks.
Byland
Fountains
Joreval (Jervaulx)
Eirkstall
Melsa (Meaux near Hull)
River (Bivaulx)
Roche
Sallay
Cistertian Nuns.
Nun Appleton (Parish of Bolton Percy) 78
Basedale (near Stokesley)
Elreton (in Swaledale) ...
Esseholt (near Apperley Bridge)
Hampole (near Doncaster)
Eeldon (Eirby Moorside)...
Eirklegbes
Sinningthwait (Bilton near Wetherby) 60
Swinhey (Swine near Meaux)
Wyckham (near Scarbro')
It may be mentioned that the richest Abbey in Yorkshire was
that of St. Mary in York, for Benedictine Monks, the annual
value of which is given as £1650 7s. Of d.
The Priory of Eirklees is stated to have been dedicated to the
honour of the Virgin Mary and St. James. The first Prioress
was Elizabeth de Staynton. Her tomb and the tombs of two
nuns said to be her sisters who entered with her at the founda-
tion, were discovered in the year 1706. The inscription on the
tomb of the Prioress was in Norman French but is now quite
illegible, the English of it being — " Sweet Jesus of Nazareth,
Son of God, have mercy on Elizabeth Stain ton, Prioress of this
house ! " The list of Prioresses is very imperfect. The follow-
ing names are principally taken from Dugdale's Monasticon,
vol. 5, pages 788-9, Elizabeth de Staynton, 18th century ; Mar-
garet de Clay worth, confirmed 4th Eal Oct., 1806 ; Alicia de
Screvyn, 4th Id : Jany., 1807 ; * Cecilia Hill, (Mr. Ismay gives
the name Hiks,) upon whose death Joanna Stansfeld was elected
in 1491. On her death was elected Margaret Tarlton who was
* Mr. Ismay here gives the name of Margaret Seyvill, daughter of Sir John
Seyrifl.
Annual Value.
£
8.
d.
••
288
9
4
..
998
6
8*
284
18
5
,.
829
2
11
..
299
6
4*
..
278 10
2
,.
224
2
5
..
147
8
10
Annual Value.
£
8.
d.
rcj
0 78
9
10
...
20
1
4
•••
16
10
6
•••
18
5
4
...
68
5
8
•••
29
6
1
...
19
8
2
rbj
0 60
9
2
•••
82
8
9±
...
25
17
6
86 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
confirmed as Prioress, 24th April, 1499 ; Margaret Fletcher,
confirmed 10th March, 1605; Cecilia Topcliffe, who is said bj
Dugdale to have been the last Prioress, was confirmed 9th July,
1527. Dame Joan Keps or Kepax or Eepast (for her name has
been spelt in these three forms) appears however to have been
the last Prioress, and to have surrendered the house 24th Nov.,
1589, (81. Hen. VIII.) a year earlier than is stated by Mr. J.
B. Greenwood in his History of Dewsbury. This lady is said
to have retired after the surrender of the house in company
with four nuns to a house which is still standing (divided into
cottages, and by some called Paper or Papist Hall) at a place
called Chapel Well, at the top of Shilbank Lane in Mirfield. .
Torr mentions an old MS. which is said to have been written
by a * Monk, (probably of Kirklees) and which is to be seen in
the Library of the Dean and Chapter at York, which says that
this old Saxon Church (of Mirfield) stood in a field called
Chapel Hill which gave rise to the old saying — " When Chapel
stood at Chapel Wells." A portion of the building called
Paper Hall, was rebuilt more than a century back judging
from the style of Architecture. The other part appears much
older, and this building was evidently intended for some
religious purpose. The floor is flagged and laid in diamond
shape ; the broad oaken stairs with heavy moulded pillars, re-
semble the rails round the Communion Tables in some of our
old Churches. The ceiling in the room above is curiously
moulded with figures of Angels, and around it was formerly an
inscription in Lombardic characters ; all which together gave it
an ecclesiastical appearance. Whether this is a remnant of the
old Chapel, or the place where the last Prioress and the four
Nuns took up their residence upon the suppression of the Con-
vent at Kirklees in 1540, or whether it was used for both
purposes cannot well be known at present.
Dame Joan Kepast was buried at Mirfield Church, 5th Feb.,
1561-2, and her burial is entered in the parish Register. The
following inscription may still be seen in the old tower of
Mirfield Church, cut in stone and built into a window: — "Dame
Joan Eepast, late Nun at Kirklees, was buried February 5th,
D.A. 1562." This inscription, which appears to be compara-
tively modern, was formerly in the chancel, behind or under
the altar in the old church, and was placed in its present
position for safety. Mr. Ismay says that it was formerly under
the north gallery.
After the suppression of the Nunnery, the Prioress had an
annual pension of £2, and each of the Nuns had £1 18s. 4d.
per annum, as appears from the following extract from Browne
Willis's History of Mitred rliamentary Abbies, vol. ii, page
* Perhaps Chantry Priest.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 87
878:— "Xirkley, Johanna Kepax, late Prioress, surrendered
4Mb Convent, 4th November, 1540, (? 1589,) and had a pension
of £2 per annum assigned her, which she enjoyed anno 1558,
in which year there remained in charge £2 18s. Od. in annuities
(? to the chantry priest) and these following pensions, viz : — to
Isabella Hoptone, Agnes Brooke, Isabella Rooles, and Isabell
SattershaU(?Tattershall) £1 18s. 4d. each."
No seal of the Priory has been met with, and there is no
register or cartulary so far as is known. The following however
are extracts from charters which have been obtained from the
Becord Office, and elsewhere :— 20 Henry III. (October, 1285,
to October, 1286.) Confirmation* by the King to the Prioress
and Convent of Kirklees of the place where they remain, that
is Kerkley and Hedensley, (then follows a portion which is
illegible). From the gift of Alan, son of Peter, three *oxgangs
of land in Cullingworth with the appurtenances and common
in Hereden for repairing their buildings, and for their fire and
pasture, for their beasts of burden in Cullingworth, and for
their pigs fed in that town food without tpannage. Of the gift
of Robert, son of Gilbert de Bar k6 8 ton, a { toft in Barkeston
which Henry Smith formerly held, and 80 acres of arable land,
and one acre of meadow in the same town. From Henry Tyas
one mark of annual rent in the mill of Hathweyte. From the
son of John the son of Amandus, certain pieces of land in
Shelfe, viz : — Wetecroft, Hallcroft, and Northcroft, and common
of pasture belonging to the same town, for 400 sheep by the
great hundred (i.e. 120) with as many lambs, and for 10 cows
with as many calves, and for eight oxen and one horse. From
Agnes de Flamevill a rent of 8s. from three-fourths of an ox-
gang of land in Marton in Burgoshire. From Beimund de
Medelay 4/8 rent from one oxgang of land which William de
Barneburn held of the same Beimund. From Robert, son of
Gilbert dinddiam eskeppam fmmenti. N.B. — We give these three
words in the original Latin because we have been unable to find
the word "eskeppam" in any dictionary or glossary. It
appears to mean a " skep " or basket, and the words may then
be translated half a basket of corn, but our readers will accept
this translation or not, as they please.
The next Charter is a very interesting one, being a grant by
Sir John le Fleming (who died about the year 1849) of a
"native " or female serf to the Prioress and Convent of Kirklees.
The Charter is printed in the Journal oi the Yorkshire Arch»o-
logical Society, vol. IV., page 164, and is without date. The
following is an abstract of it. Enow, present and future persons,
• An oxgang or borate of land, was as much aa one ox (or a pair) could
plough in a season,
t Pannage— The privilege of feeding swine in a wood,
t Toft— The site of a house burnt down or destroyed.
88 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
that I, Sir John le Fleming, have granted and quit-claimed for
ever, to the Prioress of Kirkeleys and the Holy Nuns serving
God there for the Soul of my father, and for the Souls of my
Ancestors, and in consideration of three shillings and sixpence
in silver, paid by them to me, Alice, the daughter of William
Mounger of Clifton, and her heirs with all her following, and
her chattels moveable or immoveable, present and future,
without holding back so that neither I nor any of my heirs can
require or sell any claim against the aforesaid Alice or her
heirs, following, or chattels. The deed is witnessed by Henry,
Son of Godwin de Clifton, Thomas de Grenegate, Adam his
brother, John de Haveweldun, Thomas del Clif, William and
Adam and others. Attached is an oval seal in white wax with
a fleur de lys and the legend in old English type, Sir Johannes
le Fiandrensis. The deed is endorsed Manumissio Natives, but
this Appears to be a mistake, as the document is not a Manu-
mission or grant of freedom, but a simple transfer of the native
or serf to the Prioress and Nuns. The writer has now before
him a copy of a Manumission whereby Robert de Lepton grants
to Adam, son of Richard de Lepton that he may be free from
all kind of servile condition with all his following (or progeny)
begotten and to be begotten with all their possessions. Tins
deed is witnessed by William de Bemond (Beaumont), John le
Fleming de Dalton, Thomas, the Son of the Parson of Heton,
Wm. de Roeley, Henry de Lepton and others, probably John le
Fleming who witnessed this deed is the same person who gives
the " native " to Eirklees. It should be borne in mind that at
the time when these deeds are supposed to have been made (i.e.
the beginning of the 14th Century) most of the labouring class
of England were serfs or slaves who were sold and transferred
from one Lord to another at will. Another class of persons
who were not free were the villeins who were tied to the land
and could not remove from one Manor to another without the
Lord's consent. They held land under the Lord for which they
performed certain services, and so long as these were performed
they were safe in their holdings. For the condition of non free
persons after the Conquest see Stubbs* Constitutional History
of England, vol. I, page 485 et seq. The irritation caused by
serfdom was one of the causes of the rebellion headed ly Wat
Tyler, which, says Bishop Stubbs, struck a vital blow at
Yillenage. See Constitutional History, vol. 2, page 503, also
chapter 16 throughout.
The next Charter relating to Eirklees is one dated 28rd
January, 47 Edward III., (1874) being a Licence in Mortmain
whereby after reciting that by Letters Patent Licence has been
granted to the Prioress and Convent of Kirkeleghes to acquire
lands, tenements, and rents to the value of £20 per annum
except lands Ac, held of the Crown in Chief, Licence was
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 89
granted to Thomas de Malhum, Chaplain, Richard Brand,
Chaplain, and Richard de Galthorn, Chaplain, to grant to the
said Prioress and Convent one messuage and 18 acres of land
and the third part of a messuage in Hertesheued, and to the
same Thomas and Thomas de Popelay, Chaplain, to grant to
the said Prioress and Convent one messuage, 2 tofts, 88 acres
of land, 2 acres of meadow, 8 acres of wood, and 0/1 of rent in
Wykcrislay, and which messuages Ac. were worth 88/4 as
appeared by the Inquisition of William de Ergum late *Esch©tor
for the County of York. And the said Prioress and Convent
were to hold the premises so granted, being in value f80 shillings
per annum, in part satisfaction of the aforesaid £20.
The laws relating to mortmain date back to the Magna Charta
which enacts that " it shall not be lawful from henceforth to
any to give his land to any religious house," and this prohibi-
tion is now extended so as to prevent any alienation of lands to
a " dead hand " with certain exceptions. Formerly a licence
from the Crown was required before grants of land could be
made into mortmain to a religious body or other corporation.
For farther information on this subject and on the early history
of the alienation of land, see Digby's History of the Law of
Real Property, a work published at the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
By a Licence in Mortmain dated 15th July, 49, Edward III.,
(1875), licence was granted to William de Mirfeld, Clerk, and
Roger de Barneburgh, Clerk, to grant to the Prioress and Con-
vent of Kirklees, the Manor of Westhagh (? in Kirkburton) one
messuage, one oxgang, and ten acres of land, and half of five
acres of meadow, and 17$d. of rent in Eesseburgh, Bergh,
Heghome, Westbretton, Clayton, Derton, Wollay, and Birch-
waye; and to Thomas de Malhom, Chaplain, and Richard
Brand, Chaplain, to grant to the said Prioress and Convent four
messuages, one oxgang, 72| acres of land (unam bovatam
aexaginta et duodecim acras tre dimid :) and 6ix shillings and
eightpence of rent in J Magna Lyuersegge, Robert Lyuersegge,
and Parva Lyuersegge, and to Thomas de Metham, Knight,
(Chinaler) to grant 100 shillings of rent in Halgton. And the
premises comprised in this licence being in value £10 per
annum were to be in part satisfaction of the £20 previously
mentioned and in aid of the support of the Prioress and Convent
for ever. John Sayvill is mentioned here as Esch&tor. The
"William de Mirfield named in this Licence was a member of
the family of that name, which springing from the parish of
Mirfield afterwards settled in Batley and had considerable
property there. Many of the family were buried at Batley
# The Escluetor was the officer whose business it was to look after property
forfeited to the Crown, hold inquisitions, do.
t GO in the license.
♦ Hightown, Boberttown, and Littletown.
90 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Church where may still be seen a fine tomb with coats of arms
of the Mirfield8 and other families, and the effigies of a knight
in armour and his lady.
An Inquisition was taken at York on Friday next before the
Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, 18th Richard n. (25th
January, 1895), before Hugh de Arderne, Esohsator, and a jury
who say that it is not to the prejudice of the King or others if
he grant to John Mounteney, Knight, John Woderoue, John de
Amyas, and William de Sandal, Chaplain, that they may grant
to the Prioress and Convent of Kirklees, fifty acres of land in
Mirfield and the advowson of the Church there for the purpose
of finding a * Chaplain to celebrate divine service every day in
the Conventual Church of Kyrkelees for the soul of Sir John de
Burgh and for the souls of Ins ancestors, and of all the faithful
departed ; and to the said Prioress and Convent to receive and
hold the same premises. Item, the jury say that the aforesaid
land and advowson are held of John, Duke of Aquitaine and
Lancaster, as of his + honour of Pontefract by knight service,
and the aforesaid Duke John holds the said honour of the King
in chief (that is direct from the King without an intervening
Lord) by knight service. That the aforesaid fifty acres are
worth 12/6 per annum, and that the aforesaid church is worth
18 I marks per annum. The jury then state that Sir John
Mounteney, John Woderoue and John de Amyas hold divers
lands and tenements in Shitelyngton, Wollay, and Shirclif in
the county of York, of the aforesaid Duke by knight service,
which are worth £40 per annum and are sufficient to answer
all customs, services, and burdens, as well for themselves as for
the said fifty acres. The jury further state that William de
Sandal has no other lands or tenements in the county of York*
The object of this Inquisition was, to ascertain whether the
grant of land above mentioned would cause any detriment to
the King by loss of rents, services, or otherwise. At the date
of this inquiry it was almost impossible to alienate land without
a licence from the Crown, whose object was to keep the land in
large holdings liable to knight service. A knight's fee was
estimated at about 640 acres in area, or about £20 per annum
in value, and the obligation on the owner was to furnish at his
own expense a full-armed horseman for military service for 40
days in the year. Military tenures were abolished by the
statute 12, Charles II, chapter 24.
* The Chaplain was pensioned off at the dissolution of the Convent, but his
name does not appear in the list of persons receiving pensions in 1568, given
by Browne Willis in his history of Mitred Parliamentary Abbies, vol. ii.
f An honour was a large district comprising several manors and was the
qualifying holding of a baron or earl. Sometimes however suoh a holding
was called a manor (e.g. the manor of Wakefield) and comprised several sub-
manors held of the chief lord.
J A mark of silver was 13/4 ; of gold £6 ; but marks of silver are here meant.
YOBKSHIKF, NOTES AND QUERIES. 91
Following on the above Inquisition comes a Licence in Mort-
main, dated 20th April, 19 Richard II. (1896), for granting the
above mentioned 50 acres of land in Mirfield, and the advowson
of the church to the said Prioress and Convent. Then comes
the grant dated at Mirfield on Sunday next after the Feast of
St. Michael the Archangel, 1390, and this Grant is confirmed
by a Licence dated at Pontefract Castle, 27th June, 1st Henry
IV. (1400). A mutilated extract from the Bull of Pope Boniface
appropriating the church of Mirfield to the Prioress and Convent
of Kirklees, may be seen in Whitaker's History of Leeds, page
864.
On the 4th August, 1408, (4 Henry IV.) Richard Scroope,
Archbishop of York, ordained a perpetual Vicarage in the said
church, presentable by the said Prioress and Convent, who
were to have all the tithes of * garbs and hay, and the entire
tithe of fallen wood together with the whole mansion of the
rectory. And the Vicar should have his Vicarage consist in
oblations, profits, minute-tithes, in the f altarage and {personal
tithes whatsoever, and in all singular other the obventions and
profits belonging to the church excepting the tithes of garbs,
hay, and fallen wood. Moreover the said Prioress and Convent
should provide at their own cost6 for the first time, a mansion
with competent buildings for the Vicar and his successors.
And the said Prioress and Convent should bear all burdens,
ordinary and extraordinary (** Synodals excepted), incumbent
on the said Church. The Vicar only paying 6/8 to the §Dismes
when granted to the King out of the spiritual goods of ecclesi-
astical persons.
The writer is not aware of any other documents relating to
Kirklees until we come to those relating to the dissolution of
the Priory, the first being a survey of the demesne lands and of
the rectory of Mirfield, of which the following is a translation :
Kirkleis late Priory of Nuns in the County of York.
In the renewed rental of the lands and tenements belonging
to the said late Priory, surrendered and dissolved on the 24th
day of November, in the 81st year of the reign of the very much
to be dreaded Lord King Henry VIII., amongst other things it
is contained thus, as follows : —
* Sheaves of corn.
t Offerings made on the altar, and also small tithes, such as tithes of wool,
lamb, colt, calf, pigs, chickens, butter, cheese, &o.
{ Personal tithes are paid of such things as come of the labour and industsy
of man.
•• Synodals are tributes in money paid by the clergy to the Bishop or
Archdeacon at the Easter Visitation.
t Dismes or deeimoe are tithes, bat generally signify the tenths of spiritual
brings, which were formerly paid to the Pope, and afterwards to the Crown.
92 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Demesne lands:
Site of the said late Priory with the dovecote,
gardens, orchard, and other conveniences with-
in the precincts of the same is worth per annum
Item one windmill there is worth per annum
Item Ralph Blackburn holds a house with a kitchen
within the aforesaid site and pays per annum...
Item one close of Pasture called Gastilfelde contain-
ing by estimation 80 acres is worth per annum
Item a close called the West Oxe Pasture containing
by estimation 8 acres of Pasture is worth per an.
Item a close called the East Oxe Pasture containing
by estimation 12 acres of Pasture, per annum
Item a close called the High Stubbinge containing by
estimation 10 acres of Pasture is worth per arm.
Item a close called Marebrigge Flatt containing by
estimation 6 acres of Pasture is worth per ann.
Item a close called fforbrigge Flatt containing by
estimatio n 4 acres of arable land is worth per ann.
Item a close called Lyon Roode containing 12 acres
of arable land is worth per annum
Item a close called Cowe fforde containing 6 acres
of arable land is worth per annum
Item a close called EUeytre fflatt containing 8 acres
of Pasture is worth per annum '
Item a close called Marledoore containing 2 acres
of Pasture is worth per annum
Item a close called Stakford containing 14 acres of
meadow is worth per annum
Item a close called Stubbynge ynge containing
7 acres of meadow is worth per annum
Item a close called Swyne Pasture and another close
called the Calfe Grofte containing 8 acres of
meadow worth per annum
Item a close called Brode Ynge containing 8 acres of
meadow is worth per annum
Item a close called Clifton fflatt containing 10 acres
of Pasture is worth per annum
Item a close called Cote fflatt containing 10 acres of
arable land is worth per annum
Item a close called Hukrode containing 27 acres of
Pasture is worth per annum
Item a close called Newe close containing 10 acres
of arable land is worth per annum
Item a close called Ffrewell containing 18 acres of
arable land is worth per annum
8.
a.
iij.
iiij.
nil.
8.
yj-
8.
X.
8.
▼iij.
8.
iiij.
s.
a.
iij.
iiij.
8.
iij.
8.
iiij.
8.
iiij.
8.
ij-
s.
' viij.
8.
ij-
8.
d.
xviij.
viij.
8.
d.
yj-
yj-
8.
V.
8.
iiij.
8.
a.
iy.
iiij.
8.
V.
8.
d.
xiij.
VI.
8.
d.
yj-
VUJ-
8.
yj-
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 98
Item the herbage of a close there called Nunbanke
containing 4 acres of pasture and has the
underwood of Crofton three (? acres) worth per 8.
annum ... ... ... ... ... ... ij.
Item the herbage of a close of wood called Newe
Wood containing 20 acres and the pasture of
the same is worth per annum and has 400 oaks 8.
of 100 years growth v.
li. s. d.
Total rents of the demesne lands yj. xiij. iiij.
Beotoiy of Mirfield.
Richard Lee and others hold all the glebe
lands belonging to the aforesaid rectory paying s. d.
therefor per annum xxvj. viij.
Item there were in the hands of the said late prioress
and convent the tithe of grain and hay there
with the tithe barn and a close adjoining to the s.
same barn which are worth per annum ... c.
li. s. d.
Total vj. yj. viij.
JACOBO BIKY8BEBE,
BYCHARD BYCHE,
per me, HUGONEM FFULLEB,
Audit:
From Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. v., page 739, the writer has
extracted the following, which gives the situation of the several
properties of the Priory : —
Account of the Ministers of the Lord King in the time of
Henry VIII.
(Abstract of Boll 84, Henry VIII, Augmentation Office,)
County of York.
£ a.
d.
Kirkleys, Site with demesne lands...
...
6 18
4
West Haye by West Burton, *Beditus et firm© 4. 6
8
Hudderfelde
f
99
1 4
0
Wekeleye ,
9
»9
2 6
2
Gullynworth
9
19
0 17
7
Shelfe
9
99
0 18
4
Leveyage [Liversedge.] ,
9
99
2 2
2
Hartishede ,
9
99
2 6
6
8cooles ,
9
»»
0 5
0
Danbye Orange
9
99
0 6
8
Darton
>9
99
0 4.
0
Hokynwyk [Heckmondwike.]
n
99
0 8
4
Kexburgh ,
9
99
0 7
6
* Bent* and farms. Beditos means the rent payable by a tenant to his
landlord. Firma is a fixed rent payable out of land.
tt YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIEa
Emley Reditus et firm® 0 8 0
Saddle worth* „ ,,068
Salkthwaite [Slakthwaite.] „ „ 0 18 4
Lyttle Towne alias Leversage ,, ,,060
Hokynwk 0 0 6
He ton (Rent of land of the Abbott of Fonn tains) 0 2 4
Mirfelde, Firma Rector : 6 6 8
18 9
The next document is the account of William Chamber,
Collector of Bents, &c, belonging to the Priory. The account
is for the year commencing Michaelmas 34, Henry Yin., and
ending Michaalmas 85, Henry YIH. The demesne lands and
site of the Priory are put down at £6 18s. 4d. for the year.
(To he continued.)
Saiitom jaoks.— (l.)
An Account of ye Number of ye Pews and Seats in the
Chappell of Bayldon and to whom they belong, 1728.
ffrom ye Quire Door upon the South Side.
1. — Edward Thompson, Esq.'s pew. 2. — Ditto. 8. — Ditto.
4. — Thomas Brooks, two seats upper end, Jonathan Hudson,
one seat, and Thomas Cockshot, one seat. 5. — Henry Slater,
two seats. 6. — No name. 7. — Jonathan Hudson, a pew.
8. — Samuel Walker, the whole. 9. — William Hudson, one seat.
10. — John Butler, junior, ye whole. 11. — Edward Thompson,
Esq. 12.— Ditto. 18. — No name. 14. — John Butler, junior,
ye whole.
ffrom ye west end on tlie south side adjoyrriny to Hie pillars :
15. — Samuel Walker, one, Thomas Newby, one seat in ye
same. 16. — Bo. Holden, six seats in ye said pew. 17. — Henry
Slater, two seats. 18. — John Lobley, a pew. 19. — John Butler,
junior, three seats. 20. — John Butler, for Bushford Farm, two
seats, and John one seat. 21. — Joshua Wray, two seats
for Mr. and two seats for William Boiling. 22. — Mr.
Robert Holden, one pew. 28. — Sr. Wr. Hawksworth, one pew
with a petition t in it.
* The following is extracted from Whitaker's History of Whalley, 4th
edition, vol. II., page 437, note 8: — There is in the possession of R. H.
Beaumont, Esq., of Whitley, a charter by which Robert de Stapleton grants
to God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. James of Eirkeleys, 8 acres Ac, in
Sadelworthe, housebote, haybote, Ac. Reserving to the grantor and his heirs
41 feris forestoQ meco et omnibus aliis dignitatibus forestoe."
t Partition.
96 Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
From the east end window adjoyning to ye pillars on the north side.
24. — John Langwith. 26. — No name. 26. — James Brook,
8, Francis Goldsbrough. 27.— Mrs. Mary Swaine, the whole.
28. — Thomas Brook and Mr. Holden. 29. — James Brook and
Francis Goldsbrough. 80. — No name. 31. — Edward Thompson,
Esq* 82. — John Smith, one seat. 88. — Joshnah Butler, the
whole. 84. — John Binns, the whole. 85. — John Butler (Lon-
don), whole. 86. — John Butler. ■ 87. — Mrs. Mary
Swahie. 88. — Mr. Bobert Holden, ye whole.
89. — William . Name torn off. 40. — Name torn off.
41. — Name torn off. 42. — Thomas Cockshot, the whole. 48. —
No name. 44. — Memorandum — That this seat was repaired by
Jonathan Hudson in Westgate; Israel Coltass; William Newby,
and Thomas Genniugs, yet had no title but the consent of ye
town untill the right owner made the claime. 45. — No name.
46. — Valentine Priestman. 47. 48. — William Butler of
London, whole. 49. 50. — Bichard Hudson (Marscoate).
51. — Timothy Collyer and Francis ffieldhouse. 52. 58. —
Thomas Brook, a pew. 64. — William Long, ye pew, and Thos.
Walker. 55. — Lent without rent, for the which is in possession
of Jer. Clarkson. 56. 57. 58. 59.— Thomas
Walker. 60. — Edward Thompson, Esq., belonging Moss Farm.
61.— No name. 62.— Thomas Walker.
1728. — We, whose names are underwritten, doe own, to the
best of our knowledge, as arranged above doth belong these
persons as the figures
As witness our hands —
Bo. Holden,
Thomas Bbooke,
John Butleb,
Timothy Gollteb.
Transcribed from the original in the possession of Mr.
William Scruton.
Stows mentions Baildon having a church in the year 1412,
but this erection is supposed to have been partly burnt, and
then rebuilt. The demolition of the old " Chappell of Bayldon,"
was begun on May 10th, 1847 ; and the present edifice was
opened by the Bishop of Bipon, on the 29th of February, 1848.
The living is in the gift of trustees. In the year 1868 a new
trust-deed was drawn up, and the following gentlemen were
inscribed as trustees : — James Bent, Esq., Dr. Lockley, Abraham
Maud, Esq., Captain Maude, Edward Salt, Esq., and Messrs.
Baily, Blackburn, Charles F. Walker, W. W. Holmes, and
Bichard Goldsborough. The value of the living is said to be
about £800 per annum.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 97
HirUtts fimmtxq, ((totdimxtb front p. 94.)
By 8. J. Chadwick.
Sundry rents are put down at £17 2s. Id. It is then stated
thai the rent of the rectory of Myrefelde with the tithe barn
and adjacent close of land (£6 6s. 8d.) is not returned because
the King by his letters patent has granted all the said rectory
with its rights and appurtenances to Thomas Savell of Clyfton,
in the County of York, gentleman. But the Collector returns
12s. 8d. owing by the said Thomas Savell for rent reserved to
the lord King out of the rectory of Merefelde. The total of the
year's account including 7s. arrears from the previous account
is £24 15s. Id., which does not agree with Dugdale's statement,
who says that at the time of the suppression, the Nunnery was
valued at £20 7s. 8d. gross, and £10 8s. Id. clear. Perhaps in
Dugdale's estimate the value of the buildings and land in hand
is not included. From the above mentioned account we learn
that the Collector's fee or commission was £1 6s. 8d. per an-
num. The clerk for writing out the account had 2s. Paid for
care of Nunwood 18s. 4d. Paid to Leonard Beckwith, Esq.,
the King's receiver for the County of York for the outgoings of
the year £13 7s. Id., making a total payment of £15 9s. Id.,
and leaving a balance due of £9 6s. 0d., which is all disposed
of as follows : —
£ s. d.
To *Bobert Pylkyngton for rent of land in the parish
of Heton (Kirkheaton) belonging to the Abbey
of Fountains, at 2s. 4d. per annum for 4 years
including arrears 0 9 4
To Thomas Savell, of Exeleye, in the County of
York, gentleman, for rent of the grange there
called Westhaye by Westburton (which he
claimed, by colour of the King's letters, i.e.
letters patent) 2 8 4
To Thomas Savell, of Clifton, gentleman, for rent of
the site of the Priory and the demesne lands
(which he claimed by colour of the King's letters) 6 18 4
The next document is the particulars for a grant to Richard
Andrews and f William Bamsden of part of the possessions of
' Probably the same who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Savell,
of Clifton, the purchaser of the rectory of Mirfield.
t Win. Bamsden of Longley Hall, obtained divers grants of Church lands
inrfmting the advowson of Hnddersfield, and other possessions of the Priory
it Hostell, also the site and demesne lands of Boche Abbey in South York-
shire, &c, &o. He died in London 7th Nov., 1580. He appears to have
married the Sister-in-law of the above-named Thomas Savell, of Exeley.
The SavQeB, Bamsdens, and Pilkingtons obtained a fair share of the Abbey
lands in this part of Yorkshire on the dissolution of the Monasteries.
T.H.Q. a
98 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the Priory of Kirklees. As these particulars will no doubt be
found interesting, we give a full abstract of them. They are
partly in English and partly in Latin, and the quaint spelling
of the former is here given : —
Md. that wee Richard Andros and William Bomsden require
to purchase of the King's Highness by virtue of the King's
Commission of Sale the premisses beyng of the cleare yearly
value of lxviiift. ix*. jd. the tenth not beyng deducted. In
witnesse wherof we have subscribed this bill with our hands and
putte our sealls the day and yere in the seid rate specified.
p me Riom Androys.
O ##Ti, to..
xxvii die Maie Anno rr. Henr : viii xxxv concerning the
Sale to Richard Andrewes.
Item of the possessions of Kyrkeleys viulu vs. viiid.
Parcel of the possessions of the late Priory of Kirkelies freely
County of York. Denby in the parish Heaton. There are no
lands, tenements, or rents there belonging to the Priory other
than
William Clayton is tenant at will of certain lands there
paying yearly at Martinmas and Whitsuntide vj«. viijd.
Memord. that the same lands lye by estymacon xj or xij
myles distunte from Pountefract Castle, and vij or viij myles
from Wakefelde.
Exr. P. Hugon ffuller,
Audit.
Parcel of the lands Ac, of the above Priory in the accounts
of Wm. Chamber, Collector of the King's rents, 84, Henry VIII.
Westhey by Westburton in the parish of Darton.
Thomas Sparke and John Sparke are tenants at
will of two tenements there and pay per annum
at Martinmas and Whitsuntide with vjs. viijd. li. s. d.
paid to the heir of Sir Jas. Strangways, Knt...iiy. vj. viij.
Shelf in the parish of Halifax.
The late wife (? widow) of John Priestley holds by
deed under the common seal of the Priory for
a term of years as is said one tenement with
lands, meadows, &c, &c, and pays per annum s. d.
at the aforesaid feasts ... xiij. iiij.
Leusage (Liversedge) in the parish of BristalKBirstall).
Wm. Brooke holds by deed under the common seal
of the Priory for a term of years one tenement
with its appurtenances and pays per annum at
the aforesaid feasts with iiijd. for a portion of s. d.
two Autumn tasks called * " Side boones." ... xxiiij. x.
* " Side booties " means service or work with the sickle in harvest. In
Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Obsolete Word* " boon dayB " are said
B.
d.
X11J.
8.
iiij.
8.
1UJ.
V.
d.
VI.
8.
d.
Uj.
1UJ
Y0RK8HIBE NOTES AND QUERIES. 98T
Thoe. Sawood otherwise Solithwood son and heir
of Richard Southwood holds by deed as above
a cottage rent per annum
Thomas Poplewell holds by deed as above a cot-
tage called Stonehouses, annual rent
Scoles in the parish of BirstalT.
John Brooke occupies a toft, annual rent
The heirs of Edward Stones hold certain lands
there, annual rent
Hekynwik (Heckmondwike) in the parish of BirstalL
The late wife (? widow) of John Kighley holds by
deed as above iij. closes of land, annual rent...
Emeley — John Clayton holds by deed as above
certain parcell of meadow lying in Shepeleycarre s.
within Emley parke, annual rent viij.
Sadil worth — Richard Wrigley holds by deed as above
one tenement li. s. d.
Total viij. v. viij.
Gerteyne landes and tenements in Denbye in the seyd Gountie
parcell of the possessions of the late Monasterye of Kyrklees.
Trees growing about the scytuacon of the said tenements and
in hedges inclosing landes parteynyng to the same will bare
snfiyce to repayre the forseyd tenements and to meynteyn the
hedgis and fencys aboute the same therefore not valued
by me Willm. Cowper.
One tenement in Shell? ^ t> n « <i • *
X!e tenement in Scoles - Par.cf ^2°^^ *
Three tenements in Leversaee J the Be7d late ^T*-
Ther be growinge aboute the scytuacons of the said tenements
and in hedgis inclosing lands parteyning to the same lx polling
okes, aishes, and elmys of lx and lxxx yeres' growthe whereof
xxx reservaid to the fermer and tenants there for tymber for
houseboote to repayre their forseyd tenements and to meynteyne
the forseyd hedgis therefore not valuid and xxx trees resydue
valuid at ijd. the tree which is in the holle vs.
by me Willm. Cowper.
Two tenements in Westheye in the tenure of Thos. Sparke and
John Sparke parcell of the late* Priory e of Eyrkleys.
The Hayke groue conteyneth yj acres,
West Strodes copp conteyneth iiij acres,
Scrathayks groue conteyneth iij acres,
Dowkers groue conteyneth one acre.
Total acres xiiij.
to be those on which a tenant is bound to work for his lord gratis ; and in
Basther's Dialect of Almondbury and Huddernjield it is said that " to give a
booin " is to assist a farmer gratis to get in his crops. In the present case
William Brooke appears to have paid to the Convent 4d. per annum in lien of
two days' work with the sickle whioh would be one of the terms of his tenancy.
On this subject see also Seebohm's English Village Community.
100 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
whereof vij acres (xs. vjrf.) of iij yeres growthe and vij
acres (xiiij*.) of iiij yeres growthe the wood of every acre
aforseyd valuid as appeareth whyoh is in the holle (xxiiijs.
The Spryngs of the wood p grounde of xiiij acres afor-
seyd rated yerly at vj<J. the acre woh ys yerly in the hollo
vij*. and amounteth after xx yeres purchase to vijft.
Item there be growing in the ' seyd copp woodes the short
shrubbyd and pollinge okes of xl and lx yeres growth valuid at
iiijd. the tree whych is in the holle xx*.
by me Willm. Cowper.
At the dissolution of the Priory the rectory of Mirfield and the
glebe lands, tithes, tithe barn, &c, and the right of presentation
to the Vicarage were granted 24th April, 82 Hen. VIII to Thos.
Savile of Clifton gentleman, to hold by the service of the 10th
part of one knight's fee and at the annual rent of 12s. 8d. The
price paid to Grown by Mr. Savile being £114.
On the 81st May, 86 Henry VHI, the site and precincts of
the Priory then in the occupation of the above-named Thos.
Savile, the buildings (except the lead of the roofs and windows),
demesne lands, and other lands containing an area of about 26(X
acres were granted to John Tasburgh and Nicholas Savile to be
held of the King in chief by the service of one fortieth part of a
knight's fee, the price paid, including other property, being £987
15s. 7d., a small annual rent of 18s. 4d. being also reserved to
the King. Other property of the Priory in Huddersfield, Harts-
head, and other places, was granted 14th Septr., 86 Henry
VIII, to the above mentioned William Bamsden of Longley, an
ancestor of the present owner of Huddersfield. On the 8th.
July, 1 Edward VI, License was granted by the Grown to
Outhbert Savell of Clifton, son of the above-named Thos. Savile,
to dispose of the rectory of Mirfield with the tithes, glebe, Ac,
to the above-named Wm, Bamsden, who on the 14th Octr., in
the same year obtained a License from the Crown to dispose or
the rectory, and the glebe lands, tithes, tithe barn, &c, to John
Dyghton of Batley, gentleman. These transactions were proba-
bly only family arrangements, for in May, 4 Edw. VI, a License
was granted to John Dyghton to dispose of the same premises
to Elizabeth Savell and Cuthbert Savell, doubtless the widow
and son of Thomas Savell, the original grantee from the Crown.
On the 29th March, 1 Edw. VI, License was granted to the
said Wm. Bamsden of Longley, and James More, clerk (proba-
bly a trustee for Bamsden), to alienate the site and demesne
lands of Kirklees to Thos. Gargrave, Esq. Eventually in tho
latter part of the reign of Elizabeth, most of the Kirklees estates
in Clifton and Hartshead, the rectory and advowson of Mirfield,
the glebe lands, tithes, &c, came by purchase into the hands of
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 101
John *Armitage, the ancestor of the present owner, and the
property has continued in his family to the present time, except
the advowson of Mirfield which was sold rather more than 80
years ago to Joshua Ingham, Esq., of Blake Hall, Mirfield.
The writer has been unable to find any mention of the deed
by which the Prioress and Nuns surrendered the Nunnery and
its possessions to the Crown, nor has he found the report of the
King's Commissioners who were sent to enquire into the state
of the Monasteries prior to their dissolution. It is possible
however that a careful search among the Harleian MSS. in
the British Museum, the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian
Library at Oxford, and other collections, would bring to light
other information relating to Kirklees. The Nunnery was
however of such little note, and had such comparatively small
possessions, that probably not much care was taken of the
reports concerning it. The writer however has recently been
fortunate enough to obtain a copy of the survey of the buildings
of the Priory taken by the King's Commissioners, and from a
note on this survey it would appear that at the time of the
dissolution there were a Prioress and seven Nuns in the Con-
vent, which is probably not more than half the usual number.
It will be seen by the survey that in the choir of the church
were twenty-two stalls for the Nuns, and there is little doubt
but that there was a falling off in number for some time previous
to the dissolution. The following is a copy of the survey : —
Kirkleys, Scitus domorum.
XX
The churohe conteynyth in length iiij ffoote and in bredith
xxj foote, wt. a high roofe coueryd wt. slates, hauynge
glasse wyndowes conteynynge L ffoote of glasse, wt. the
high alter, ij alters in the quere, and ij benethe, and xxij
stalles in the quere for the nones.
Item the cloyster at the souths parte of the churche conteynyth
in length xl ffoote square and in bredith vij foote, and iij
partes coueryd wt. slates, and chambres over th. other one
parte, wtoute any glasse.
Item the chapiter house at th'este parte of the cloyster, xyj
foote square, vndir the jdorter, wt. iij litle glasse wyn-
dowes conteynynge yj foote of glasse.
Item the dorter over the chapiter house, xl foote longe and
xviij foote brode, coueryd wt. slates.
Item a parler vndir the dorter xviij foote square wt. a ohym-
ney, ij baye wyndowes glasid conteynynge xxx foote of
glasse.
2
!
° In the original purchase deed Mr. Armitage is described as of Farnley
Tyas, Yeoman, and his name is spelt with an "i" in place of a "y." This
in some degree confirms the claim of the Armitages of Hnddersneld and the
neighbourhood to he descended from the same stock.
f Dormitory.
102 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Item the *gyle house at the southe parte of the cloyster, xx
foote square, vndir the fraytour.
Item a larder house vndir the fraytour, xviij foote longe and
xiiij foote brode.
Item the tfraytour, xxxiiij foote longe and xviij foote brode,
• stone walles, vnglasid, coueryd wt. slates.
Item a litle house at the west parte to lay brede yn, xvj
foote longe and x foote brode.
Item a J bultynge house at the weste parte of the cloyster,
xvj foote square.
Item v litle ehambres over the same at the said west parte
for the ladies and others to work yn, coueryd wt. slates.
Item the halle at the west ende of the ehurehe, xxx foote longe
and xxj foote brode, wt.oute glasse coueryd wt. slates.
Item a parler or chamber at th' upper ende of the halle xxiiij
foote longe and xvi foote brode, coueryd wt. slates, no
glasse.
Item a litle chamber by the same, x foote square coueryd wt.
slates, tymber walles.
Item the buttrye at the vpper ende of the halle vndir the
chamber, xxj foote longe and x foote brode.
Item a little inner buttrye by the same.
Item the new chamber at the northe parte of the inner
g oourte, xvj foote square wt. a chymney and
J j§» ooureyd wt. slates, tymbre walles.
~ Item ane other chamber by the same, xvj foote longe
and xij foote brode, tymber walles coueryd wt.
slates.
Item ane other chamber by the same of lyke bignesse.
Item ane chambre therby of like bignesse.
Item such ane other olde chamber coueryd wt. slates.
Item a low house or old parler vndir the seid ehambres, xviij
foote square, wt. stone walles and one glasse wyndow con-
teyning x foote of glasse.
Item the Prioresse chamber at the northe syde of the nether
ende of the church, xxiiij foote longe and xvj foote brode,
tymbre walles coueryd wt. slates, no glasse.
Item j litle closett and a litle cole house therby.
Item a low chamber called the §fermery at the nether end of
the fraytour, xviij foote square, old stone walles, a chymney
and no glasse.
Item the kychyn, xx foote longe and xviij foote brode, no chyxn-
ny, stone walles and coueryd wt. slates.
* The Gyle house was the wort house or place in which ale was worked.
Sometimes called Gylyng house, and sometimes Gail house. See HalHweU's
Dictionary of Archaic and Obsolete Words.
t The refectory or dining hall.
I For boolting or Bifting meal.
f Infirmary.
i
i
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 109
Hem the brewhouse and bakehouse at the southe parte of the
inner conrte, xxxyj foote longe and xx fbote brode, stone
walles and ooueryd wt. slates.
Item a stable and ane old cole house at the southe parte of the
seid oourte, vndir the chambres.
Md. that alle the seid houses are abonte the cloyster and the
inner court.
Item ane old almes house whereyn a poore man dwellith wt.oute
the gate.
Item ane other old almes house, xl foote longe and ziiij foote
brode, by the bek syde.
Item a cowhouse xxxviij foote longe and xx foote brode, brokyn
walles, coueryd wt. slates, decayed.
Item ane old rounde dove cote in the vtter yarde, of stone
walles partely brokyn, decayed.
Item a come barne of ij storyes, whereof th'one lxxij foote
longe and xxx foote brode, and the other xl foote longe
and xxiiij foote brode, stone walles, a goode stronge roofe
ooueryd wt. slates, v quarter rye.
Item a carte house, xxx foote longe and xyj foote brode, no
walles, coueryd wt slates welle.
Item the oxehouse, lx foote longe and xviij foote brode, stone
and tymbre walles, coueryd wt. slates.
Bern the kylne house, xlivij foote longe and xviij foote brode,
whereof th' one half old and th' other halfe late burnyd
and new bilded, whereof lakkith xx foote to oouer and
the rest coueryd wt. slates.
Item the garner, xx foote longe and xyj foote brode, tymbre
walles, coueryd wt. slates.
Item ij litle houses vndir the same and th'one of theym for
seruauntes to lye yn.
Item a swyne cote, xxiiij foote longe and xvi foote brode, coueryd
wt. slates.
Md. that the inoste parte are olde houses.
Item ane orchard enclosed wt. ane olde stone walle wt. few fruit
trees, conteyneth by estymacon iij roodes of grounde.
If the above survey is cpmpared with an article an the Cister-
cian plan by Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite in vol. VII of the Yorkshire
Archaeological Journal, a very good idea will be formed of the
arrangement of Monasteries of the Cistercian Order. We
gather from the survey that all the buildings at Sirklees were
small and poorly built, and many windows were unglazed, even
those in the Infirmary and in the Prioress's chamber. There
were also very few ohimnies, even the kitchen being without
one and probably the smoke would escape through the door and
windows. In some of the rooms charcoal fires would be used
in braziers. The chaplain appears to have had a chimney in
his room, and there was also one in one of the parlours where
104 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
guests were received. The Prioress's chamber does not appear
to have been very comfortable. She would probably take her
meals in the refectory and sleep in the dormitory with the nuns
as it was not usual for the heads of Cistercian Monasteries to
have private households. This rule however is not without
exceptions, as at Fountains for instance the Abbot's house must
have been a splendid building. At Eirklees the nuns do not
appear to have had luxurious quarters, and it is to be hoped
that their discomforts arose from a desire to strictly follow
the example of the founder of their order.
Very few of the buildings mentioned in the survey can now
be traced. Dr. Whitaker says "a square depression in the
ground distinctly marks the cloister court, nearly 80 yards
square, north of this was the body of the church, and 18 yards
or thereabouts to the east are the tombs of Elizabeth de Stayn-
ton and another, immediately to the eastward from which the
choir has evidently terminated. The nave, transept, and choir
must have been at least 150 ft. long." These measurements do
not agree with those of the survey, and the latter document
appears to dispose of tho tradition which says that a large 8
storey building on the west side of the cloister was the house of
the Prioress. The chamber of the Prioress was in quite a
different direction at the north side of the " nether " (which I
take to be the east or lower) end of the church. It is possible
that the building in question may have been the hall, parlour,
Ac, which are said to have been at the west end of the church.
A large ♦gateway with corner turrets is said to have been
standing in the year 1670, and an engraving thereof is given in
Stukeley's IUnerarium Curioaum, vol. II. A small copy of this
engraving is to be seen in Outch's Robin Hood, vol I, page 47,
a book which contains a good account of that famous outlaw.
The most perfect relic now remaining of the Priory is the gate-
house adjoining the stream, which has very thick walls and
narrow windows. A small closet in this building is said to be
the scene of Robin Hood's death which is so graphically des-
cribed in the fine old ballad of Robin Hood's Death and Burial
which we would fain believe to be .true. Many doubts have
been thrown on the existence of this famous outlaw who robbed
the rich to help the poor,t and it is impossible to condense into
a few words all that has been written about him. Those who
wish for further information should refer to Qntch's and Ritson's
• I think the bo called gateway was simply a farm building with pigeon
cotes on the top. From its situation relatively to the other buSdingB it oouM
not be a gateway. The engraving is a very rode one.
t Cryst have mercy on his sonle,
That dyed on the roode,
For he was a good ontlawe,
And 4yd pore men moeh good,
A LyteU Oeste, Ac
YO&KSHIBB NOTES AND QUEBIE8. 106
books on the subject, and to an essay by the Revd. Josh.
Hunter, published in the year 1852, some extracts from which
are given in Hobkirk's History of Huddersfield, pages 80-2.
Mr. Hunter appears to be of opinion that Robin Hood did not
live in the early part of the 12th century as one would conclude
from the epitaph said to have been inscribed on his gravestone,
but in the first part of the 14th century, in the reigns of Edward
IE and Edward III, about the time of John le Fleming who
Suited the "native" to Kirklees. The supposed grave of
bin Hood lies on rising ground, a good half mile from the
gate house, from the window of which the dying outlaw is said
to have shot his last arrow. There is only a small fragment
of the stone now to be seen enclosed in an iron cage to prevent
further depredations. The navvies who made the neighbouring
railway are said to have reduced the stone to its present size.
In Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, page 108, is the supposed
figure of the stone with a sort of cross fleuree thereon, but it is
thought that this is really a copy of Elizabeth de Staynton's
tombstone. It is said that Sir Samuel Armytage an ancestor
of the present owner of Kirklees, caused the ground under the
supposed tombstone to be dug a yard deep and found it had
never been disturbed. We will however take leave to disbelieve
this story, and to hope that Robin Hood still lies undisturbed
in his last resting place in the pleasant park of Kirklees.
Lay me a green sod under my head,
And another at my feet ;
And lay my bent bow by my side,
Which was my music sweet :
And make my grave of gravel and green,
Which is most right and meet.
Let me have length and breadth enough,
With a green sod under my head ;
That they may say when I am dead,
Here lies bold Robin Hood.
All this they readily promised him,
Which did bold Robin please :
And there they buried bold Robin Hood,
Near to the fair Kirkleys.
The Sou>izb8' Tbbnch at Shipley Glen. — The following
letter, calling attention to a case of vandalism in Shipley Glen,
appeared recently in the Bradford Observer: —
8ir, — I have just been informed by a brother antiquary of the
wilful demolition of the ancient stone circle, or soldiers' trench,
at Shipley Glen, described in Horsfall Turner's "Hkley."
8ome iconoclast, or iconoclasts, for there must have been
106 YORK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
several, have accomplished the work, which I am told they have
to such purpose that the circle, which was one of the most
Serfect of its kind in this part of the oountry, is completely
estroyed, and some of the large stones removed to a distance.
All this has been done for no earthly purpose, unless it was
with the hope of finding some treasure-trove beneath the surface.
This is a most unpardonable piece of folly, evidently done by
unskilful hands. The least they could have done would have
been to leave the erections as they found them. Thus a work
which has stood in all probability for a couple of thousand of
years, and was visited annually by people from all parts of
England and America, as pointing to a prehistoric period, is
sacrificed to meet the cupidity of some person or persons whose
names should be handed down to posterity along with those of
Jonathan Martin and others of that ilk. Surely some one bears
the responsibility of protecting these national monuments, and
it is for this purpose I beg to call the attention of the Lord of
the Manor, or other persons interested, otherwise the few me-
morials of a similar character which remain to us will soon
disappear. — I am, Ac, W. T.
December 26th, 1885.
The matter was at once brought under the notice of Captain
Maude, lord of the manor, and it is hoped that effective steps
will be taken to repair the wanton damage done to one of the
most interesting local " British circles." The Bradford Histori-
cal and Antiquarian Society, at a council meeting a few days
ago, unanimously passed a resolution deploring the wilful
destruction of this memorial of the past, and hoping that the
lord of the manor of Bracken Hall Glen — more commonly
known as Shipley Glen, will endeavour to secure such restora-
tion as possible, so as to maintain in its primitive condition
one of the largest and most perfect " circles " of its kind in this
part of the country. Those who are acquainted with the glen
will remember the large segment of an ancient intrenchment
locally known as "The Soldiers' Trench." It consists of a
double row of upright stones arranged in a circular form, and
filled in with rubble between the two rows, so as to form a
raised mound or wall backed by the upright stones on both
sides. The vandal of the glen has simply carted away a large
proportion of the rubble between the two rows, and has practi-
cally destroyed the mound for a considerable distance. — Leed$
Mercury.
rhe diggings more fully reveal the remains of intense fires,
confirm the theory of those who regard this particular
circle as a relic of fire-worship. It is desirable that a list of
circles, sculptured rocks, pits, mounds and other earthworks of
ancient date throughout Yorkshire, should be compiled, and
systematically studied. Our wide moors and extensive wood*
are comparatively unexplored.]
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 107
Uorksfjxr* |}aris!j fUjjisfers,
By the Bkv. J. L. Satwkll, F.B.H.S.
The Parish Registers of the Established Church form at once
an authentic library of parochial history, and a mine of anti-
quarian wealth, which every beneficed Clergyman ought to
carefully conserve and protect for the benefit of the nation.
The Incumbent of a parish for the time being is the responsible
guardian of parish records, although according to law, the
Churchwardens have the custody of the Church property be*
longing to each parish, but such custody is subordinate to the
custody of the Incumbent. Too often the contents of the
parish chest are allowed to moulder away, grimly guarded from
intruders by the three large padlocks ordered by the 70th
Canon of 1608, the writing becomes unintelligible, the sub-
stance upon which the entries are made worm-eaten and dis-
coloured, and the work of deciphering the characters a real
difficulty, even by experts, without the questionable aid of
reviving liquids. It is not to be supposed that every Clergy-
man takes a delight in sniffing the odour of musty parchments,
but he would be doing an undoubted service in making the
parish chest easy of access to those who take an interest in
Historical and antiquarian research; in preserving valuable
records from the ravaging tooth of time, by occasionally expos-
ing them to a dry atmosphere ; and in protecting the venerable
parish coffer and its contents from the ruthless and oftentimes
sacrilegious hands of thieves and pedigree hunters.* Very
recently, the village church of Hampton, near Evesham, was
broken into by thieves, the tin box which contained the parish
registers, secured only by a small brass padlock (1) forced
open, and the contents of the box carried away wholesale.
Fortunately the Vicar had made copies of the ancient registers,
and for this he is to be commended, but for the lamentable
Joss of the originals, which the thieves would most probably
burn he is culpable. A tin box with a small brass padlock
was quite inadequate for its purpose, and if the old parish
chest was dilapidated, one of Milner's fire proof iron safes
ought to have been provided by the parish and set up in
the parsonage. Unless great care is taken to keep out the
damp, the relentless grip of decay fastens upon the leaves, as
«t NoBTHAiiLBBTON, where the pages of some very early docu-
ments are nothing more than a parcel of fragments. When
this is the case the pieces ought to be carefully pasted between
* There aire persona who make a practice of searching registers for births,
marriages, and deaths, rewards for which have been offered by advertisement,
and who take the advantage of making copious extracts, under the pretence
of tracing pedigrees. This i$ a refined species of thievish trickery, against
which every incumbent ought to be on his guard.— -J.L.8.
106 YORKSHIBE NOTES AND QUEBIB8.
two sheets of tracing paper, so that both sides can be seen.
The registers at Ackwobth date from 1568, and are in good
preservation. The first Registration Act was passed in the
thirtieth year of Henry VIII. (1589), so that it was not until
-the eleventh year of Edward VI. that a registration book began
to be kept at Ackworth, a somewhat tardy compliance with the
Act which cannot be accounted for. Of course an earlier book
may have been kept, but if so it has been lost. The Ackworth
registers and other parochial documents are carefully preserved
in a small iron safe* at the Rectory, accessible to all bona
fide enquirers. The registers themselves are numbered con-
secutively. Vol. I. is a quarto, bound in leather, with brass
clasps, evidently not the original binding. The parchment
leaves are much discoloured, but a careful Reotorf has made a
partial transcript of the entries, and had it interleaved. The
transcript in some places is not correct, but it is nevertheless a
valuable aid in deciphering the peculiarly engrossed characters,
which in some places are quite faded. The records in Vol. I.
cover a period of ninety years (1558-1648).
Ackworth— Vol. I., Part I., 1558-71.
The first parchment leaf has been torn out, probably by some
one wishing to possess a relic of ancient times, but such van-
dalism is shocking. On the top of the right hand corner of the
second leaf, is the following entry —
Thomas Hartyndon, Rector,
Presented to this Living by
Queen Mary, Apr. 1554.
Then follow entries of eight baptisms, and one marriage in
1558. No burials are recorded until 1561.
Baptisms, 1558.
John Ranolde, baptysed the 10
of Februarie.
John Hall, 4 of March.
George Wilcocke, ye 18 of
Februarie.
Agnes Pearson, 20 September.
Margret Davidson, 18 August.
John Austwicke, 12 September.
Agnes Rodwell, 8 October.
Isabell Hopkinson, — J October.
Mabrxagbs.
Willm Bigleskirke and Elizabethe October — •
Baptisms, 1559.
Jane Rawson, March 22.
John Fricklaye, —
Thomas Oorbrige, Februarie —
John Brownbrigge, Februarie 25
Margret Heptinstall,
Willm Foolde,
• The old perish chert been no date, is not carved, and only bean one
padlookt
t Dr. Timothy Lee.
t Where the writing is OTintelHgSMe, it is left blank.
f The entries for 1559 and 1560 an very indistinct.
\
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 100
Mabbiagbs.
Francis Makin and May (?).
John and Dorothye
Baptisms, 1560.
Margret Chatburne, | Willm Simson, Januarie 6 (?).
Edwd. Stillinge, Januarie —
Mabbiagbs.
John Soger and Elizabethe
John Howet and Ja
Willm and Elizabeth
and
Baptisms, 1661.
Robert Becket, Februarie 11.
Thomas Horner, 26.
Doritie Hopkinson, Maye 10.
Thomas Corbrigge, 18.
Willm Adam, Julie 27.
Margret Hinohliffe, baptysed
Januarie 17.
John Howet, March 6.
Lionell Wormall, March 16.
Ric. Clyffe, March 27.
Mabbiagbs.
Edwarde Rustbie and Grace AUine, (?) Julie 5.
Willm Austwicke and Jane Simson, November 7.
Thomas Brownebrige and Alice Ghauntrye, November 17*
Bubials.
Nicholas Archer, buryed Januarie 8.
Baptisms, 1662.
Edward Margison, baptysed Aprill 6.
Agnes Roberts, Maye 8.
Mabbiages.
Barnarde Brigge & Margret Scholaye, maryed October 5.
Robert Walker & Margret Clyffe, October 12.
John Walker & Elizabethe Margeson, October 28.
James Norton & Jennet Redman, November 26 (?).
Bieharde Tiplinge & Alice Medope, November 28.
Willm Hutchinson & Isabell Wilkinson, December 22 (?)•
Baptisms, (no date.) *
Bieharde Arundell, June 10.
John Norton, June 2 —
Willm Hynchcliffe, June 11.
John Mawson, October 14.
John Norton, November 8.
Jennit Chatburne, November 25
Bieharde Stillinge, Februarie 8.
Kaiheryne Pickeringe, Marche
28.
John Wormall, March 27.
Willm Beverlaye, March 28.
Edwarde Austwicke, Maye 28.
Jennet Horner, June 8.
Bubials.
Elizabethe Stillinge, buryed Aprill 2.
Jane Pickeringe, buried November 29
Ellis Chatburne, November 26.
• Probably 1563.
11G
YORKSHIRE. NOTES AMD QUERIES.
Ann Becket, Januarie 8,
M'gret Wetherhead, Januarie 20
Henrye Wormall, Januarie 28
Edmund Grenewood, March 26
Agnes Walker, Aprill 1.
Isabell Simson, Aprill 2.
Baptisms, 1564.
Elizabeth Newall, Aprill 13.
James Brathwayte, Aprill 28.
George Troos, Julie 15.
George Howet, August 20.
Agnes Dodgson, December 15.
Thomas Padget, December 28.
[No marriages or burials recorded this year.]
Baptisms, 1565.
Francis Jackson, Aprill 20.
Robert Davison, June 10.
Willm Hall, Julie 80.
Elizabethe Stillinge, August 19
Margret Barker, August 20.
Elizabethe Hopkinson, Septem-
ber 22.
Thomas Broadlaye, September
26.
Thomas Roger, September 80.
Margret Cloughe, October 14.
Rich. Simson and Beteris
Howet, October 15.
John Fricklaye and Paul Bew-
lay, Januarie 27.
Thomas Wright, Januarie 27.
Anne Clapham, Februarie 10.
[No marriages or burials recorded.]
Burials, 1566.
James Huntingdon, June 25.
Agnes Hall, August 10,
Elizabethe Barker, September
80.
John Wormall, November 19.
Richard Smithe, December 22.
Elizabethe Hopkinson, Decem-
ber 20.
[No baptisms or marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1567.
Elizabethe Gee,(?) Februarie 17
Richard Foul d 8, Aprill 16.
Anthonye Rodwell, Maye 22,
Alise. Brigffes, Maye 19.
Henrye Roberts, Julie 10.
Roger Pickeringe, Julie 12.
Margret Norton, Julie 25.
Burials.
George Twedall, Septr. 15.
John Wetherhead, November 28.
Emmot Simson, November 24.
Willm. Norton, November 80.
John Scholaye, December 15.
Elizabeth Gee, (?) December 21.
Elizabethe Hopkinson, Decem-
ber 28.
Richard Whyte, baptysed Jan-
uarie 28.
EstherChatburne,Februarie 15
James Cloughe, 18.
Robert Walker, April 80.
Elizabethe Stillinge, June 10.
Jane Glapam, June 80.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1568.
John Wormall, December 18.
Robert Wormall, December 20.
Richarde Twedall, Julie 5.
James Grenewoode, Julie 20.
James Howet, Julie 80.
Charles Jackson, October 10.
Margret Howet, October 15.
Margaret* Fricklaye,October20.
John Scholaye, October 28.
* Margaret, is thus spelt for the first time, and afterwards both ways.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
lit
Baptisms, 1568.
Marye Wormall, November 20.
John Letter on, November 28.
Elizabethe Pkkeringe, Novem-
ber 15.
Rosamunde Dodgson, December
20.
Thomas Briggs, December 25.
Anne Simson, December 80.
Isabell Fawconer, November 5.
Agnes Padget, November 20.
James Scholaye, November 26.
Willm. Reame, November 80.
Edwarde Becket, Deoember 20.
Bryan Beverlaye, December 20.
EdwardeHopkinson,October 80.
John Chatburne, November 10.
BUBIALS.
Lionel Howet, Jannarie 20. I John Hopkinson, Julie 15.
Margaret Austwick, Januarie 20 Eatheryne Leteron, Julie 20.
Robert Bell, Marche 28. James Grenewood, October 25.
Willm Adam, Marche 25. Betterifi Howet, October 20.
Margret Chatburne, Aprill 25. I George Hall, October 28.
Briget Costable, Julie 80. I
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1569.
Jane Wetherheade, Jannarie 20
Emot 8hillito, Januarie 15.
Bichard Simson, Januarie 80,
Elisabeth Hall, Februarie 15.
Margret Broadlaye,Februarie 24
James Rodwell, Februarie 25
Dorithie Grenewoode, Februarie
27.
Elizabeth Clapham, Februarie
28.
John Roger, Marche 5.
Bichard Shillito, Marche 15.
Beteris Roger, June 20.
Leonardo Stillinge, June 25
Margret Scholaye, Julie 24.
Dorithie Horner, Julie 24.
Jane Pearson, Februarie 20.
Anne Gorbrigge, Marche 25.
Sicylye Broadaye, Marche 28.
John Redman, April 28.
Willm Wormall, June 20.
Francis Dodgson, June 28.
Thomas Wetherhead, June 80.
Willm Wright, Julie 20.
Margret Greene, Julie 25.
Jane Hollinworthe, Julie 25.
Annis Nelson, September 80.
Marye Brigs, October 20.
Elizabeth Everinghame, Aprill
12.
Willm Norton, April 25.
Agnes Scholaye, June 80.
Margret Broadlaye, June 15
John Ro(d)ger, Aprill 80.
Robert Jackson, Julie 28.
John Scholaye, August 26.
Jennet Bell, August
BlJBIALS.
Willm Horner, August 22.
Agnes Broadlave, August 80.
Jennet Linfield, October 29.
Jennet Grene, Januarie 28.
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Febru-
arie 7.
Elizabeth Watkin, Februarie 12.
James Wetherhead, March 18.
John Bell, March 20.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1570.
John Milnerson, Aprill 29. ' Willm Wormall, June 28.
Elizabethe Norton, Maye 8. [Christian name not inserted]
Willm Becket, June 4. " Norton, August 20.
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Baptisms.
Katheryne Stillinge, August 28
Margret Howet, Januarie 14.
Grace Jackson, Januarie 21.
Robert Padget, Januarie 22.
Agnes Bobinson, Januarie 28.
Elizabeth Letteron, Februarie
12.
John Peele, March 28.
Mathewe Wilbye, Aprill 8.
Thomas Heptinstall, August 26.
Anthonye Royes, August 8.
John Greene, September 10.
Willm Steade, October 6.
Grace Jackson, Februarie 28*
John Bell, March 20.
Esabell Fawconer, March 28.
Bryan Beverlaye, Aprill 17.
John Huntingdon, Aprill 28.
Agnes Esh, Maye 4.
Thomas Geffrason, June 8.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1671.
Jane Norton, Februarie 10.
Edwarde Greene, Februarie 11.
Thomas Peele, March 22.
Henrie Huntingdon, March 4.
Betteris Letteron, March 19.
Emmat Ghatburne, March 14.
Matthewe Milner, June 80.
Agnes Pearson, Julie 24.
Betteris Bobinson, August 9.
Isabell Simeon, October 6.
Anne Hall, October 6.
Thomas Piokeringe, October 24.
Jennet Howet, October 80.
Marriages.
Lionell Wormald and Francis Moidye, (Morlye) married Julie 1»
Willm Jackson and Jane Wilson, November 4.
George Abbott and Isabell Pickeringe, December 1.
Robert Jackson, and Jane Wormall, Januarie 81.
Bubiall8. — Jenet Austwicke, Marche 80.
Willm Lambs, Rector, A.M.
Richarde Churchwarden.
The nomenclature of the foregoing entries is interesting.
During a period of nine years, only forty Christian names occur,
five of which viz : Doritie, Jennet, Emot, Betteris, and Annis,
are now rarely met with. " Sicylye" survives as Cicely, and
" Doritie" as Dorothy. Bryan and Ellis are in reality sur-
names, and are now seldom used as Christian names. John of
course is found most frequently, together with his "marrow" —
Jane. Lionel occurs frequently, as also Katherine and Agnes,
but Anthony, Nicholas, Rosamund, and Barnard only once. Of
the surnames, Austwicke, Fricklaye, Chatburne, and Wormald,
are the most numerous, closely followed by Scholaye, Corbrigge,
Howet, Stillinge, Broadlaye, Norton, Simson, and Fawconer.
But Geffrason (Jefferson), Letteron, Everingham, Costable,
Shillito, and Arundell are scarce. The name Roger occurs both
as a Christian and a Surname. Chauntrye, Ranolde, Bigles-
kirke, Clyffe, Troos, Foulds, and Esh are only found once.
The surnames Scholey, Wormald, Howit, and Norton still
Burvive at Ackworth, whilst a descendant of the Austwick
family, was a person of property and importance in the last
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113
century, and gave a piece of ground to the Society of Friends
wherein to inter their dead. No light is thrown upon the
manners and customs of the time, but the entries become more
interesting further on.
Baptisms, 1572.
Jennet Dodson, October 24.
Elizabeth Wormall, Decemb. 14
Alis Nelson, Januarie 5.
John Pearson, Februarie 22.
Margaret Roades, Aprill 27.
John Wormall, Aprill 29.
Henrie Redman, Maye 7.
Richarde Jackson, June 29.
John Wormall, filius WiU'm,
August 28.
Mabriages.
James Norton and Katerine (Tapton), Januarie 26.
Richarde Fricklaye and Isabell Coyts (Coates), Maie 7.
BUBIAI*L8.
Agnes Walker, Aprill 9.
Thomas Peele, Aprill 80.
Margret Royds, Maie 1.
Jennet Norton, Maie 26.
George Briggs, June 5.
John Hepworth, June 20.
John Westbie, June 29.
Baptismes,
Richard Letteron, Aprill 10.
Jane Horner, Aprill 17.
Nicholas Norton, Aprill 26.
Ann (?) Wetherhead, Maie 10.
Milnerson, Maie 80.
Lionell Clapam, Maie 24.
Margret Jackson, Julie 10.
John Robinson, August 2.
Anne Hirst, September 6.
Leonard Padget, September 12.
Jane Hawet, July 25.
Richard Jackson, August 6.
Robert Pickeringe, October 28.
John Becket, December 4.
Agnes Wormall, Februarie 15.
Jane Ghatburne, Marche 20.
1578.
Margerye Huntingdon, Septem-
ber 12.
Jane Gr en field, September 26.
Thomas. Roberts, October 12.
Thomas Briggs, November 80.
Thomas Wright, Decemb 20.
Anne Westabye, December 27.
Tho. Hall &Ric. 'Ball, Janua-
rie 10.
Thomas Austwicke,Februarie 28
Mabriages.
Robert Barghe and Jennet Simson, October 28.
Henrie Horncastle and Margret Brooke, November 15.
Bubialls.
Willm Wormall, Marche 25.
James Norton, Aprill 11.
John Robinson, August 6.
Betteris Letteron, December 18
John Wright, Januarie 5.
Agar (?) White, Januarie 6.
Richarde Hall, Februarie 10.
Thomas Hall, Februarie 15.
Edmond Dorker, the Sixth (?)
of November.
Will'm Walker, Aprill 20.
Y.H.Q.
Baptisms, 1574.
Will'm Stillinge, and
Wormall, August 18.
James Corker, June 20.
John Simson, August 7
Agnes
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YORKSHIRE NOTE8 AND QUERIES.
Jane Hawet, September 19.
Thomas Corker, October 2.
John Letteron, October BO.
Edithe (?) Milnerson, Februa-
rie 8.
Agnes Dodson, Februarie 24.
Mabbiaobs.
John Alderslaye and Ellin Fyshe, October 81.
[No Burials recorded in 1574.]
Baptisms, 1575.
Jane Jackson, Aprill 10,
John Hodgson, Aprill 16.
John Becket, [and buried],
Aprill 24.
Richard Chatburne and Jennet
Tomson, Maie 21.
Thomas Horncastle, June 20
Mabbiaobs.
Peter (?) Heaton and Isabell Wormall, Januarie 16.
Burials.
Margret Wormall, June 22.
Tho. Greene and Robert Bell,
August 21.
Alice Robert(s), Februarie 24.
Dorithyie Corker, Marche 22.
Emmat Huntingdon, Marche 22
Margret Ramsden, April 24
Marie HinchclifFe, Maie 27.
W — Woode, Januarie 20.
Baptisms,
Margret Padget, Aprill 6.
Edwarde Wright, Aprill 8.
Elizabeth Wormall, June 16,
Lionell Walker, Julie 18.
Thomas Wormall, Julie 25.
Mabbiaobs.
Will'm Jackson and Rosamond Stillinge, Maie 20,
[No Burials recorded this year.]
Baptisms, 1577.
Jennet Pyman, Februarie 8.
John Robert(s), Februarie 4.
1576.
Wilfryde Hawet, March 6.
Eatheryne Pickeringe, March 6
Anthonye Redman, March 12.
Leonard Walker, March 24.
John Horncastle, Maye 14
Lionell Redman, Maye 26.
John Walker, Maye 28.
Will'm Norton, June 4.
Anne Shillito, December 12.
Katheryne Norton, Januarie 8,
Henrie Nelson, Februarie 17.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Burials.
John Wormall, [and buried,]
Feb. 17.
— Scholaye, filia Elizabeth,
Februarie 26.
— Scholaye, filia Johannis,
March 5.
Elizabeth Horncastle, Julie 14.
Jennet Parke, October 80.
Jane Heaton, October 14.
John Becket, Februarie 17.
Thomas Corker, Marche 8.
John Proctor, Marche 5.
Elizabeth Burnet, Marche 21.
Agnes Horner, before the date
thereof,* September 12.
• Born prematurely, and dying immediately ; but as the infant's baptism is
not recorded, there is no reason why its burial by name should have been
entered.
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115
Baptisms, 1578.
Richarde Pickeringe, filius
J — minoris «* Septeb : 29
Alice Hall, Aprill 11.
Richarde Roberts, Aprill 80.
Barnab Shepheard, Hector, presented to this Living by ABp
York, Jany., 1578.+
BURIALLS.
Isabell Huntingden, June 8.
Jane Izat, June 80.
John Scholaye, filius Richardi,
November 10.
Henrye Anstwicke, Aprill 16.
Richarde Roberts, Maye 12.
Richarde Ellis, Maye 28.
John Wormall, December 28.
Mabriageb.
Will'm Corker and Katherine Hodgson, June 2.
John Anstwicke and Alice Brouke, June 15.
Baptisms, 15784
Jennet Jackson, Februarie 11.
Robert Norton, Februarie 12.
Leonard Wetherhead, Feb. 18.
John Hawet, Februarie 24.
John Rawson, Marche 24.
Baptisms, 1579.
Robert Farrand, Marche 26,
Dorythye Whiticars, Aprill 4.
Lionell Roberts, Aprill 5.
Antonye Milnerson, Aprill 12
Will'm Grenfield, Aprill 28.
Agnes Redman, Aprill 25.
John Jenkinson, als. Greene,
August 8.
Jane Heaton, August 14.
BuBLALIiS
Jennet Anstwicke, August 14.
James Huntingden, filius
Januarie 29.
Richarde Horncastle, Feb. 26.
Margret Shillito, Februarie 29.
Anne Thacker, Marche 1.
John Roberts, Marche 4.
Ellin Anne§ Corker, March 7.
Leonarde Burnet, Aprill 25.
Katheryne Grenfield, Maye 1.
Agnes Ashton, June 29.
Robert Bell, Julie 2.
Marye Robinson, Julie 7.
Margret Jenkinson, August 7.
Jennet Rawson, Septeb. 4.
Johana Wormall, October 20.
Margret Burnleye, Deceb. 17.
Thomas Beet, Februarie 14.
John Roger, Februarie 21.
Anne Walker, Marche 11.
John Hawet, Marche 18.
Jane Heaton, Marche 28.
James Huntingden, filius
Marche 24.
[No Marriages in 1579.]
Baptisms, 1580.
John Hodgson, Marche 26.
Emmat Medoppe, Marche 28.
James Whalleye, Aprill 1.
Richard Bell, Aprill 8.
Thomas Grenfeld, Aprill 18.
Elizabeth Walker, Aprill 21.
Margret Rawson, Maye 22.
Isabell Dorker [Donkin], May 28
• The Father was a minor.
f Later entry.
♦ Not recorded in their proper order.
I First instance of a double name.
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Anne Spencer, June 1.
Margeret Hall, June 20.
Ursulaye Corker, August 19.
Edward Izat, September 17.
Elizabeth Bigleskirke, Sept. 24
Jane Pickeringe, October 8.
Francis Bushell, November 9.
Andrewe Shillito, November 80
Francis Broadlaye, December 5
Ellin Corker, December 22.
Thomas Jenkinson, Januarie 8.
Thomas Austwicke, Januarie 12
Emmet Foulds, Januarie 19.
Jennet H un tin gden, Januarie 26
Jane Soholayc, Februarie 18.
Alice Wilson, a bastard, Feb-
ruarie 20.
Thomas Broadlaye, Marche 4.
Burialls.
Margret Medoppe, Aprill 6.
Elizabeth Walker, Maye 1.
Margerye Child, Maye 18.
Isabell Don kin, Maye 80.
Ellin Corker, June 8.
Thomas Beverlaye, June 9.
John Hodgson, June 24.
Margret Bawson, Julie 81.
Bobert Norton, August 5.
Alis Hodgson, September 18.
Thomas Peele, October 17.
Alis Bawson, November
Elizabeth Howet, December 2.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1581.
Anne Thacker, December 2.
Dorothie Stagge, December 5.
Marye Thacker, December 6.
John Pearson, December 26.
WilTm Walker, Januarie 1.
Grace Broadlaye, Februarie 1.
Lionell Farrand, Februarie 7.
Willm Hepworthe, Februarie 18
Cicelye Hawksworthe, Feb. 20.
Alice Chadwicke, Marche 81.
Maud Marchland, Maye 29. •
John Bratwhayt,* Julie 10.
Leonard Farrand, Aprill 28.
Thomas Heaton, Maye 29.
Jane Banold, Julie 4.
George Whiticars, August 6.
Anne Huntingden, August 27.
Isabell Sugden, Septemb. 6.
Anne Wormall, September 8.
Anne Prince, September 21.
WilTm Hodgson, October 10.
Anne Eshe, November 9.
Anne Aspiner, December 29.
Thomas Hodgson, December 80
Edithe Frances, Januarie 10.
WilTm Bedman, Marche 1.
WilTm Walker, Marche 8.
Anne Jenkinson, Marche 11.
WilTm and John Hinchcliffe,
Aprill 24.
BUBULS.
Eatheryne Brooke, September 1
Elizabethe Sugden, Septemb. 8 Margret Ward, Februarie 25
WilTm Hodgson, October 20. Edward Izat, Februarie
Marye Wetherhead, Novemb. 15
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1582
Isabell Sugden, December 81.
Isabell Boberts, June 2.
Thomas Corker, films
June 2.
Bichard Bawson, June 9.
lion.
Jane Grenfeld, October 20.
Jane Medope, October 28.
WilTm Horncastle, October 80.
Lionell Grene, November 21.
• Now 4lBraitllwait.,
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
117
Emmat Hawksworthe, Dec. 10.
Judith Pickeringe, December 24
Marye Izat, Februarie 2.
Bubialls,
Agnes Hinchclrffe, Marche 25
Will'm Hinchcliffe, Aprill 1.
Will'm Norton, Maye 18.
John Hinchcliffe, June 8.
Edward Fricklaye, June 18.
Thomas Corker. October 28.
Marye Bushel!, Marche 5.
Emmat Willson, Marche 9.
12
John Howet, Aprill 12.
Cotton Broadlaye, Aprill 29.
John SchMaye, Aprill 28.
Robert Broadlaye, Maye 24.
Stephen Peele, June 25.
Joana Norton, Julie 7.
Edythe Corker, August 14.
John Eshe, Octob 16.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1588.
Jane Medope, Novemb. 4.
Elizabethe Wormall, Noveb,
Alice Grene, Deceb. 80.
Will'm Walker, Februa 4.
Jennet Huntingden, Februa 21
Margret Folds, Februa 28.
Elizabethe Austwicke, Oct. 27.
Alice Briggs, November 29.
Elizabeth Thacker, Noveb. 29.
Edward Jen kin son, Jan. 22.
Emmat Huntingden, Jan. 25.
William Medope, Februarie 28.
Robert Jackson, Februarie 25.
John Parke, Februarie 25.
Elizabethe Farrand, October 29, Anne Pearson, Marche 11.
Burials.
Thomas Corker, Februarie 27.
Lionell Brooke, Aprill 2.
Lionell Corker, Aprill 7.
Jennet Austwicke, Aprill 14.
Betteris Padget, June 11.
Robert Padget, June 14.
WilTm Wormall, Julie 8.
Alia Trough ton, August 5.
John Foores (?), August 7.
Richard Rawson, August 20.
George Austwicke, Septeb. 12.
Anne Dobson, Septemb. 18.
Margret Fricklaye, Septeb. 18.
Jennet Norton, Septeb. 14.
Margret Beverlaye, Decemb. 16
Jennet Colbres, February 1.
Robert Hinchcliffe, February 28
John Mason, Marche 25.
John Shillito, Marche 28.
Anne Becket, Marche 28.
Jane Wright, Aprill 2.
Thomas Scholaye, Aprill 5.
Will'm Hawksworthe,
George Wormall, June 8.
Betteris Whiticars, August 14
Will'm Jenkinson, Septeb. 18.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Baptisms, 1584.
Robert Walker, Aprill 2
Jane Wright, Aprill 8.
Nicholas Chatburne, Aprill 19
John Hall, Maye 6.
Bobert Bushell, Februa 22.
[No Marriages recorded.]
Elizabeth Aspiner, Septeb. 80.
Will'm Eshe, November 2.
Elizabethe Windebanke, Nov.
27.
Alice Izat, November 29.
Henrie Prince, December 6.
Robert Roberts, December 28.
Margret Clapam, Februa 14.
Bubialls.
Anne Dodgson, Februa 28.
Jane Shawe, Marche 8.
Edward Kaye, Marche 21.
Richard Paalaye, Marche 25.
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Baptisms, 1565.
Simon Back, Hector. ABp. York, Patron. January, 1585.
John and Elizabeth Grenfeld, Leonard Thacker, August 2.
Aprill 8. I Grace Walker, August 6.
Katheryne Medope, Aprill 18. ' Allan Corker, August 18.
Jennet Horncastall, Aprill 20. ' Will'm Smythe, Septemb 8.
Leonard Spencer, Maye 2. j Robert Bell, August 22.
Jennet Dobson, Maye 7. ! Alice Hawet, Novemb 28.
Anne Wilson, Maye 9. John Austwicke, Janua 22.
Isabell Wood, June 28. s Isabell Broadlaye, Janua 81.
Prudence Halilaye, Julie 8.
Mabriaoes.
Bobert Bidgnall and Isabell Heaton, November 9.
Will'm Bawson and Isabell Franke, December 7.
Will'm Peter and Alice Somerscales, December 7.
John Bawling and Ursula Wetherhead, December 12.
[No Burials recorded.]
Baptisms, 1586.
George Grenfeld, Marche 20.
Marye Grene, Marche 25.
Jo. & Will'm Paslaye, Aprill 5,
Thomas Eshe, Aprill 16.
Will'm Pickeringe, Aprill 29.
Emmat Grenfeld, Maye 2.
Anne Hawks worth, Maye 22.
Isabell Parkinson, Maye 29.
Alice Aspiner, July 21.
Robert Hawet, Octob 22.
Thomas Bidiall, Septemb 24.
Elizabeth Padget, Noveb. 29.
Anne Bawson, Januar 18.
Dorithye Bawlin, Januar 21.
Mary Lethall, Marche 19.
Reptile Symbolism. — In the Church of Bainton, East York-
shire, there is a recumbent effigy of a cross-legged knight (said
to be Peter cle Mauley) of 18th Century date. A Lizard bites
the point of his Shield, and a toad covers the point of the
Sword, its head being towards the hilt. How are we to account
for these reptiles in this position and what is their signification ?
They have no apparent connection with the Armorial bearings
of the Knight. Gough (in his Sepulchral Monuments) states
that these reptiles in such a position are not uncommon in this
country. R. H. Barker.
Hull, 18th October, 1886.
Muster Bolls. — Surtees informs us that the Earl of Hunt-
ington, Augt. 12, 1588, assembled all of the County of Durham,
between 16 and 60 years of age capable of bearing arms, at
Spennymoor, — 9000. Can any of your antiquarian readers
inform us whether these musters are preserved by name. Those
of Yorkshire, temp. Hen. 8, must have been, as they are drawn
upon by General Plantagenet Harrison for genealogical pur-
poses. T. Y.
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©ttr Ijorkslpr* foitrrs.
While giving the writer of the article on Leeds Pottery every
credit for its production, and adding my own modest testimony
to the value of such researches as illustrate the origin and
growth of important branches of manufacture, more especially
such a one as that of china and pottery, which is so closely
allied to the fine arts, and enters so largely into the comfort
and beauty of our domestic lives, still I am sure it is not his
wish that any wrong impressions should be produced on the
subject by incorrect statements or questionable inferences.
Quoting from " Thoresby," he says, "that Mr. Place discovered
an earth for and a method of making porcelain, which he put
in practice at the Manor House of York." What may have
been Mr. Place's discovery, or what experiments he may have
carried on for the making of porcelain or china, i.e., semi-
transparent ware, partaking of the qualities of both glass and
pottery, I know not ; but most certainly no evidence has yet
been found that he ever did make any such ware, either as
specimens or for merchandise ; that which he produced being,
so far as is known, " perfectly opaque, and not superior to the
common earthenware," made some years later.
Mr. Preston seems also not to have made it quite clear when
quoting Thoresby's reference to the Wortley clays, and also to
Houghton's testimony as to the capabilities of some English
clays for this and other special purposes, that he (Thoresby) is
only bringing in Houghton for this end, and not in any way as
a witness in favour of Place as a maker of chinaware. All that
Houghton says on the subject refers to day found at Poole, in
Dorset, which was conveyed thence to London for manipulation
by the potters of the metropolis. (See below.) Further,
although China goods were imported into this country from the
first half of the sixteenth century, and were eagerly sought
after by those who could afford to buy them, still it is not
known that any of that fictile ware was made here before the
opening of the eighteenth century ; in fact, the great weight of
evidence is against such an assumption. For though D wight,
of Fulham, patented his discovery of "the mystery of trans-
parent earthenware," in April, 1671, he does not appear ever
to have produced it as a marketable commodity; the great risk
and uncertainty of firing, &c, and, possibly, an imperfect
knowledge of " the mystery," preventing him from completing
what he had begun ; or, perhaps, it might be that he could not
produce it at a price to compete with the Oriental importations,
as Houghton further tells us that the clay above referred to as
brought to London for the manufacture of " the best sort of
mugs, was, he had been told by Dwight, the same as chinaware
was made of," and that, if it were worth while we may make
120 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
as good china here as any in the world." Again he says, so
late as- 1695, " Tis a curious manufacture, and deserves to be
encouraged here, which, without doubt, many would do, as Mr.
Dwight, of Fulham, has done*it, and can do it again on any-
thing that is flat. ... By my consent, the man that would
bring it to perfection should have for his encouragement One
Thousand Pounds from the Publick, though I helped to pay a
tax towards it."
As to Chelsea, Jewitt says, in his " Ceramic Art," vol. 1, p.
168, that " the history of the Chelsea china works is -very
obscure." It is certain, however, that previous to the year
1700 the goods made at these works were principally delft ware,
by Dutchmen brought from Holland for that purpose. It is
sometimes said that the Dutch potters were at this time ac-
quainted with the process of making porcelain, and if so, it
might not be improbable that they brought this practical know-
ledge with them not only to Chelsea, but also to Bow and
Bristol, where they appear likewise to have been employed.
One thing is certain of Chelsea, and probably -also of the other
places mentioned, it was early occupied in painting china
brought from the East for that purpose, and that by the middle
of last century they were all actively engaged in its manufacture,
servilely imitating, in the first period, the Oriental paste and
style of decorations.
At this time also, 1751, Dr. Wall, of Worcester, medical
practitioner, chemist, and artist, brought his experiments to
perfection, and established a company for the manufacture of
china in that city. The works at Derby were also started a
year or two prior to the above date, and were carried on in 1756
by the firm of Dewsberry, Planche, and Co., " partners together
as well in ye art of making English china, as also in buying
and selling all sorts of wares belonging to ye art of making
china." A few years later the Old Chelsea works were incor-
porated with those of Derby, the distinctive marks of the two
being compounded into one. Dr. Johnson and his friend Bozzy
visited Derby in 1777, and the latter in writing of the occasion
says — "The china was beautiful; but Dr. Johnson justly ob-
served it was too dear ; for that he could have vessels of silver
of the same size as cheap as what were here made of porcelain."
So that after all that is said about the so-called extravagant
prices sometimes paid for specimens of these early productions,
they do not often exceed their first cost. From this brief sketch
it would appear that Dwight (or Dowoit) of Fulham, knew how
to make china in 1671 ; yet it is not likely he ever did make it
for sale ; that it was made at Chelsea and Bow at the opening
of the last century, and possibly at the first place somewhat
sooner, for exceedingly little is known about it; that from 1750
it was made in considerable quantities at all the places
YOBKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 121
mentioned, as also at a few others. Yorkshire, therefore, I
fear, can lay no claim, either by Place of York or any one else,
to the invention, nor the early production of this delicate and
beautiful ware ; nor was it ever introduced into the capital city
until 1888, when it was advertised that " Mr. Hirstwood, of
Stonegate, erected a kiln and extensive warehouse in the Groves,
for the manufacture, gilding, and burnishing china, which has
not previously been attempted in this city."
The " Leeds Pottery Works" are situate in Jack-lane, Huns-
let, where they are of considerable extent, covering altogether
about seven acres of land. During the century and a quarter
of their existence, they have passed through many vicissitudes
of changing fortune, rising rapidly to a state of eminence and
prosperity, from which they gradually declined ; got involved
in the meshes of Chancery law ; were rescued ; recovered some
measure of their former success; declined again, and were
bankrupt; continued a feeble struggle for a few years, and
finally passed into hands by whose energy they recovered a
large degree of their original vitality. It is generally supposed
that pottery has been made in and about Leeds from a very
early period, the Wortley clay having been used for that purpose
for many generations, and possibly centuries past. The town-
ship of Potternewton, also on the north side of Leeds, although
it may have a personal and not a craft origin, is yet suggestive
in connection with this question. The early wares were, how-
ever, of a coarse and primitive character. The first clue which
we get to the comparatively modern history of these works is
furnished by Jewitt (Vol. 1, p. 467), where he says, " Before
this time (the middle of the last century), a kind of Delft ware
was made, and I have seen some very creditable copies of
Oriental patterns with salt glaze also produced at these works."
But the famous Josiah Wedgwood in 1762 commenced to make
his celebrated "cream ware," afterwards called, when patronised
by Queen Charlotte, " Queen's Ware," and the wonderful favour
with which it was received induced other potters, and the Leeds
makers especially, to give their attention at once to its produc-
tion. This was done with such success at Leeds as to rival,
and in many cases exceed the works of the " great master " ;
notably in the wicker baskets, which are often exquisite speci-
mens of light and graceful manipulation ; while in the more
ornamental pieces, such as centre-pieces, candelabra, tureens,
bowls, Ac, the perforated work — which was all done with a
punch or a small knife — and the modelling are all that could
be desired in form and beauty. The late lamented Mr. Lyndon
Smith owned a ohoice collection of these wares, some of which
he considered so fine as to "vie in artistic feeling with the
productions of Wedgwood." Indeed, the race at this time was
so close between these two noted manufactories, that it is
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scarcely possible to say, in reference to many of the common
patterns, which originated them, or which copied from the
other.
Mr. Preston says — " This ware — i.e., the cream ware — " bears
considerable resemblance in the paste to the Staffordshire
Queen's ware, but differs in the colour of the glaze, which is of
a mellower kind." Now, I may be wrong, but I have always
regarded the glaze generally used as being colourless, and the
"tint" to belong to the paste or body of the article; still,
however that may be, there certainly is no fixed tone or tint in
either the Leeds or Staffordshire " cream " ware, the shades
varying from a pale, creamy white to a deep cane or decided
yellow colour. In fact, Wedgwood was obliged to tell his Lon-
don agent, as Miss Meteyard informs us, that while he strove
to keep it as pale as possible, yet it could not always be done,
and that "it is impossible that any one colour, even though it
were to come down from heaven, should please every taste/'
Neither can I see how " the perforated or pierced work " can
be said to be characteristic of the Leeds ware. For although a
very large quantity of that ware was made at Leeds, yet they
must have produced a vastly greater amount of that which was
plain in cream, blue, and other colours of printed and painted
goods ; while those pierced wares were made to an equal extent
by Wedgwood, and largely also by Davenport, Spode, Neale,
Gric, and other makers. I know it is common for dealers who
have any of this special ware without mark to ascribe it at once
to Leeds — and this speaks loudly in favour of our local produc-
tions ; but collectors have to learn to discriminate, and it is
for their guidance I write, as I but rarely find that dealers have
much technical knowledge of the several varieties of their
fictile stocks. Neither does my limited experience confirm the
statement of Mr. Preston, that " mottoes and rhymes are of
frequent occurrence on the Leeds wares," at least on those of
the early and middle periods. As to his assertion that china
was made at these works, I do not know in what capacity the
friend to whom he refers was employed, or what were his facili-
ties for getting correct information on the subject ; but I fancy
his idea, at the time, of china must have been akin to Thoresby's
of the York porcelain, as it is certainly a new idea for collectors,
and, if correct, Mr. Preston has without doubt " struck ile,"
and very high prices would be given by some for specimens for
their cabinets. Jewitt, than whom no one has more fully in-
quired into the history of these works, says " that china was
never made there, I am fully convinced."
I am astonished Mr. Preston should affirm that 'a marked
specimens of Leeds ware are seldom met with." My own
collection is but very limited, and yet I could show him a con-
siderable number of marked pieces. Truly, a great deal was
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made there without being marked, the bulk of it being sent to
the foreign markets, from whence some of the finest specimens
in the hands of collectors have been recovered ; yet the marks
are so far from being rare/ that there is but little difficulty in
constantly finding them. As to the marks, that novices may
not be at fault in seeking to acquire specimens, I regret again
to have to demur to Mr. Preston's statements. He says —
" Other examples are ' L. P.' (Leeds Pottery), and ' L. P. C
(Leeds Pottery Company). The letters ' O. and G.,' surmounted
by a crown, « C. G.' (Charles Green), and * C. G.,' with ' W.'
underneath, are now considered as early marks." Now, Mar-
ryatt states in his " Ceramic Art " that Mr. Edward Hailstone,
who owns a fine collection of this ware, and notably an elaborate
fountain, made special enquiries of old workpeople in reference
to the marks, with the result that he could not learn any other
marks were used but those of " Hartley, Green, and Co., Leeds
Pottery," and " Leeds Pottery " only. Jewitt also says he is
" convinced that the * C. G.' and the ' C. G.' with « W.' under-
neath, do not belong to Leeds, and there never was a C. Green
connected with the firm." I find of the family of Greens,
Joshua, John, Saville, and Ebenezer, but not one with the
initial ' C ; and even were it so, how is the * W.' accounted
for? Mr. Preston also says, " The horse-shoe is another mark
found impressed on the Leeds ware." This also is misleading,
as there is no such mark. What be means, I presume, is that
on some pieces the full name and address, as above, is placed
in a double-tiered arch of capital letters, the name of the firm
forming the outer and the address the inner tier of the arch.
Generally, it seems a pity that, having brought this ware to
such perfection, and opened for it good markets in France,
Germany, Russia, &c, it should, for want of sustained enter-
prise and a liberal spirit, be allowed to slip away into other
districts and countries. When at its prime the turnover was
not less than £80,000 per year, and the wages paid more than
one-fourth of that sum, besides between £2,000 and £8,000 for
coals obtained from the Middleton pits. One of the chief causes
of this decline appears to me to be the fact that, although the
paste and the modelling are in general most excellent, yet the
colouring when the brush was used, is almost invariably of the
crudest character; and when figure or flower subjects are
attempted, not only crude, but in many cases positively
ludicrous. There are several valuable collections of these pro-
ductions of our town in the immediate neighbourhood, and it is
to be hoped they may not be scattered all over the country, as
were those by a recent great sale in the town.
J. T. Beer, Fulneok.
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(Bxtintt ®0ttgr*0att0ttal Colics.
The Ejected Clergy of 1662 were men of more than average
culture for those times, though, it should be said, the range of
studies was somewhat limited, extending to little beyond
Theology, Latin, Greek, and a smattering of Hebrew. Their
ability in dividing and subdividing a text, so as to extend into
a sermon of several hours1 length, nay, into several such ser-
mons, is well known ; and the aptitude with which the texts
were selected denotes a thorough acquaintance with almost
every verse in the Bible. Nor were they content, though
excluded from the Universities, by imposed oaths, that their
sons and suocessors should be in anywise sufferers owing to
this lack of opportunities. Amongst their number were some
who were eminently qualified to supply the requirements, and
whilst the majority still continued, with great acceptance, their
pulpit labours, others entered the houses of the gentry, as
chaplains and private tutors, and a few established themselves
as school-masters.
Mr. Heywood sent his two sons in 1678, to the Rev. Mr.
Hickman's Academy at Dusthorpe, near Bromsgrove, in War-
wickshire. Mr. Bichardson, of Eirkheaton, and Mr. Cotton, a
Yorkshire layman, also sent their sons to Mr. Hiokman at the
same time, with the intention of training them for the ministry.
Mr. Hickman was a B.D., and celebrated Oxford preacher
(Hunter' 8 " Heywood/1 p. 258). It is rather remarkable they
were sent so far from home, as the Bev. Richard Frankland,
representative of the Craven family at Bathmel, had gathered
a school before 1670. He was educated at Cambridge, and was
selected as one of the professors for Cromwell's University at
Durham. His frequent removals, caused by violent persecu-
tions, especially about 1678, were probably the cause that led
to sending the youths to Mr. Hickman. They had not, however,
a long term in Warwickshire, for they were removed to the care
of Mr. Frankland in less than a year. (Aocounts of Mr.
Frankland may be found in Calamy ; the various Histories of
Protestant Dissenters; Hunter's "Heywood," pp. 242, 811,
822, 898, 896, 426: Halley's "Lancashire Nonconformity," pp.
418-9; Miall's " Congregational Yorkshire," pp. 87, 120-1; and
a list of his pupils, with biographical notes, in Vols. H. and
IV. of " Heywood's Diaries.") Mr. Heywood's sons had pre-
viously been under the tuition of Mr. David Noble, a Noncon-
formist preacher at Morley, and a talented author.
The Bev. Timothy Joilie, one of Mr. Frankland's pupils,
established an Academy at Attercliffe, about 1687, after Mr.
Frankland, who had temporarily resided there, had returned to
Bathmel. (See Hunter, p. 426 ; Halley, pp. 419-421 ; Miall,
pp. 121-2.) The Bev. John Wadsworth succeeded Mr. Joilie,
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who died in 1714. The Academy dwindled, and became extinct
in Mr. Wadsworth's time. He died in 1744 or 5.
On Mr. Frankland'8 death in 1698, his Academy was con-
tinned by Mr. Chorlton at Manchester, some of whose students-
are recorded by Mr. Hey wood (Diary, Vol. II). Mr. Chorlton
was assisted by Mr. Cunningham, who was also his successor,
but "incompetent to sustain its reputation, he brought the
Academy to an untimely and not very honourable end." Mr.
Chorlton died in May, 1705. ( Northowram Register . See
Halley, p. 421.)
The Rev. James Owen received theological students at
Oswestry, and subsequently at Shrewsbury, where he died in
1706, and was succeeded by Dr. Benyon. A Dr. Dickson had
conducted a flourishing Academy at Whitehaven, which was
continued by the Rev. Caleb Rotherham, D.D., at Kendal, until
his death in 1752.
The Warrington Academy was established in 1757, with Dr.
Taylor as its Principal, and the institution still survives, having
been removed to Manchester, from thence to York, and again
to Manchester. (Hunter, p. 427 ; Halley, pp. 490, 501.)
In 1754 another Academy of some repute, kept by Dr. E.
Latham at Findern, near Derby, as successor to a Mr. Hill,
was closed ; and Daventry Academy had ceased to be private
property under the Independents, through the support of Mr.
Coward's trustees. The celebrated Dr. Joseph Priestley, who
was born at Field-head in Birstall in 1788, chose Daventry
Academy under Dr. Ashworth, successor to Dr. Doddridge, in
preference to the "more orthodox" Academy at Mile End,
London, and was urged thereto by the Rev. J. Kirkby, the aged
minister at Heckmondwike.
Though probably Arian, Mr. Kirkby joined his people in
inviting the Rev. James Scott, .to become assistant-minister at
Heckmondwike, to which invitation he acceded, after sixteen
months' deliberation, in January, 1754. Mr. Kirkby died the
following month. Mr. Scott was a native of Berwickshire, and
was born in 1710. He entered Edinburgh University in 1726.
For some years he was a private tutor. He was minister of
Stain ton in 1789, Horton -in-Craven 1741, (being ordained there
in May of that year,) Tockholes in 1751, removing thence to
Heckmondwike. Mr. Scales mentions a manuscript life of Mr.
Scott, which it is hoped is still preserved, but I am sorry I do
not know what has become of it. I have his portrait, and also
his funeral sermon, preached by the Rev. Jonathan Toothill.
Long notices of Mr. Scott appear in it; also in Cockin's
Memoirs, in the Evang. Mag. for 1814, and the denominational
Magazines. The Rev. Edward Hit chin, of White-row, London,
who had relatives in Heckmondwike, had frequent conversations
with Mr. Scott on the prevailing declensions from orthodoxy,.
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which resulted in the formation in London, May 24, 1756, of
" The Northern Education Society," for the purpose " of dis-
pelling the cloud of Socinian darkness then spreading over the
northern counties." It was resolved to establish and maintain
an Academy in the North of England, and Mr. Scott
was
invited to accept the tutorship. The Church at Heckmondwike
agreed to his engagement, and he commenced duties the same
year. Warrington Academy, promoted by the " heterodox,"
was founded the following year, as previously stated. Mr.
Scott is said to have resided at Mill-bridge at first, but probably
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early removed to Southfield, near Norristkorpe, where he had
a fairly capacious house, with the Academy a few yards in front
at right angles, a view of which is here given. In this building
about seventy students were educated, a list of whom will be
found in "Nonconformity in Idle, and History of Airedale College"
On the death of Mr. Scott, ten students, then in residence,
were transferred to the Rev. Samuel Walker, of Northowram,
who, from 1788 to 1795, had twenty-four others under his
charge, including the Rev. William Vint, who carried on the
Academy at Idle, until the magnificent Airedale College at
Dndercliffe was erected. Rotherham College may also be
regarded as a twin sister to Idle.
We have pleasure in adding a portrait of Mr. Scott, by favour
of the Rev. B. Nightingale. There is an oil painting of him at
Rotherham College. Mr. Scott died at Heckmondwike, Jan.
11th, 1788, twenty years after the death of his wife.
In drawing this brief and hurried sketch of the extinct theo-
logical training Academies to a close, I will give publicity for
the first time to a characteristic letter that cannot fail to interest
the Congregationalists of Halifax, as it refers to one who became
a more than Halifax worthy — the Rev. Joseph Cockin.
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Southfield, Feb. 6, 1777.
To the Kippin Congregation meeting at Thornton.
Dear Friends, As I have been acquainted with you for
several years & have always had a good opinion of you, as
serious people in general, lovers of Jesus Christ & his Gospell,
& as you are now comfortably united together & have joyned
together in giving a Call to Mr. Cockin to be your Pastor, I
would give you some advice in order to his answering the Call.
There are many even serious people who do not consider the
necessities of a minister with respect to temporal things. Those
who have a farm & a trade have necessaries from their farm
every day, and not only wages but profit from trade frequently,
so that they know little of the expenses of Housekeeping.
Diligent working families whose hands are their estate, gain
more a year than perhaps they imagine, they are receiving
wages weekly, neither do they observe how much goes to sup-
port their poor families. They (viz. people in general) think
that a Minister with his family may live very plentifully and
clothe decently with about 40 Pounds a year. But a considerate
person will see this to be a mistake.
Another thing I would suggest, That many think that what
is given to a minister is a free gift, so that they may give or
not give according to their pleasure. This is also a very great
mistake. Indeed it is a gift among Dissenters with respect to
the laws of the Nation but not with respect to the laws of God.
Those who ministered in holy things had always a portion for
their due. Melchizedek had the tenth of the spoils from Abram ;
Egyptian Priests had their portion. The Lord commanded the
tribe of Levi, tho much inferior in number to any of the 12
Tribes, to have the tenth of all the fruits of the land, besides a
part of many of the sacrifices. Christ, sending his disciples to
Preach, commanded them to make no provision for their Journey,
adding this reason — For the workman is worthy of his meat,
he hath ordained that they which preach the Gospel should
live of the Gospel, 1 Cor. 9, 7 to 15. And let him that is taught
in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good
things. Gal. 6. 6. A comfortable support is their due. If any
say, What is due to a Minister? I answer; Such a part of your
Substance according to your ability as you incline to devote to
God's glory & the support of the Gospel among you. My ad-
vice then is that you make a subscription. Let every one
propose what he is able and willing to give a quarter, let the
names and sums be written in a book & the Collection be made
accordingly. This is a necessary part of duty. For people
ought to give according as God hath prospered them. All
young people, man & woman, who are gaining wages should
subscribe something. Who is it that does not spend time or
money needlessly to the value of I2d. in three months? I want
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no superfluities for ministers but a decent support to free them
from fear of want, & that they may give themselves wholly to
the duties of their office, and may have some certainty for
supplies. I never proposed anything of this nature on my own
account, but if I had been in the condition of many, a numerous
family & no other helps, I would have found the necessity of it.
This with my love to you all, desiring you may be guided into
all Truth & duty from
Your affectionate friend and servt. in the Lord,
JAMES SCOTT.
On glancing over this brief sketch I find I have omitted all
mention of Lady Hewley (Hunter's Heytcood, p. 427, MialTs
Congregationalism, p. 117); of Mr. Stretton (Miall, p. 97); of
Dr. Williams (Hunter, p. 425) ; who deserve the highest
encomiums for their munificence to the Students and Academies
of former and present times. I have not referred to the odious
Acts intended to crush out Nonconformity by aiming blows at
the Academies (see Miall, pp. 119, 125, 126); nor to the
establishment and encouragement of many Village Schools,
Northowram amongst the number, by the ejected clergy. The
Congregational Year Booh for 1851, and one of our West Hiding
Congregational Recfisters (about 1855,) contain historical articles
bearing on the subject. T.
o
Note. — See AckwoHh Registers on page 115, —
" No Marriages in 1579."
The reason why no. marriages hare been recorded for six consecutive years
cannot be conjectured. There mnst have been marriages, but they are not
found in any other Registers. If not, the number of baptisms points to
illegitimacy, although one child only is branded as " a bastard."— J.L.S.
[1 have found abundant proof that the Registers were generally • posted up'
annually from rough mem-books ; and have at several places found whole
yean missing. — Ed.]
A SKETCH OF 1648.*
By T. Tindall Wildridge.
Placid lay the Humber beneath the silvery beams of the July
moon. With her turreted walls rising from the shimmering
flood, Hull, like a sea-queen at rest, surveyed her ancient
domain. In the embrasures watch-fires reddened and glowed
in vivid contrast to the pale light without, and the tramp of
heavily-armed men, and the occasional clanking ring of halberd
or sword-scabbard on the ramparts, told that the guardians of
the town slept not at their posts. Twinkling lights here and
there, on both the northern and southern coasts of the river-
sea, spoke too of watch and ward, while upon its tranquil
* From Andrews' Hull Annual, with our own illustration.
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•
bosom floated many a high-prowed ship, with its soft-stepping
sailors alert. The night was full of watchfulness ; ears and
eyes seemed to be on every side, waiting but for the whisper of
Suspicion to rouse the clarion throat of Alarm.
What fires, what lights, were these— what need of that
vigilance, that waiting for the morrow, which seemed detained
by the very anxiety that expected it ?
The fires were the fires of Patriotism, the lights those of
Liberty, and the need was that of vigilance against an enemy
who would destroy both, and might sweep down any moment
to the rescue of a traitor !
A dire conspiracy had been discovered, a treachery unearthed.
The Town of Hull, the key of Yorkshire and the Magazine of
the North, had long held firm to the Parliament, and the
majority of the townsmen stood to the neck in responsibility
for the first decisive events of the Civil War. Their swords
had been drawn and their purses upturned to maintain the
cause. .Their fruitful fields had been converted into wide
lagoons, their argosies ventured and often lost, and no man
held his life dear if he might at its risk serve the Parliament
and the People.
With what horror then was it found that the Governor of the
Town, one of the " obstinate Northern men," who, in the im-
patient Parliaments of Charles, had long held to liberty,
meditated delivering them all over into the power of the
adversary.
But the plot was in vain. Upon this night, in the cabin of
that grim warship, whose sturdy bulk warranted the name of
Hercules, sits with bowed head and uncertain thoughts the
baffled Hotham, lately so imperious and tyrannical. The waters
of the Humber Sea lap gently against the vessel's oaken sides,
and to Sir John, in the silence of his captivity, the waves have
the hushed waiting sound of a bated breath. Had he but
known it, this was the last time he was to hear it. Full of
agitation he seized a pen and wrote a stammering letter to
those upon whom he had so lately trampled. This letter, now
preserved among the Town's Eeoords, shows how his heart
refused to hear the voioe of fate, and how his vacillating spirit
for another time swung to the point of courage and left him
brave. He wrote for wife, children, money and clothes, to be
sent to him, commencing : " Sirs,— This unfortunate business,
which I doubt not but you have done out of your good affections
to the Parliament, I hope God in his mercy will turn to the
good of all." And again : " I heare you have dealt like gentle-
men with my wife, for which I may live to thank you."
This subjunctive form of expression, here a mere figure of
speech, was too prophetic. He may have thanked them, but
his life for the brief span of its continuance was poor in all
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save barren words, whether of thanks or imprecation. For
the Hercules was to be but a step to the Tower, and the Tower
to the Scaffold. He entered the Hercules a prisoner on the 29th
June, 1648, and was beheaded on the 2nd January, 1644-5.
SIR JOHN HOTHAM.
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York Mint. — In England we had formerly many places
favoured with the privilege of having a mint. So late as the
reign of William III., it was found convenient, at the calling
in of the light and base money to be recoined, to erect mints
at London, York, Bristol, Chester, Exeter, and Norwich, the
initial letter of those names being struck on their respective
products. The accompanying cuts represent earlier specimens
of York coinage. No. 1 is Edward the Sixth's silver crown-
piece. It has the King's figure at length on horse-back, in
armour, crowned, and holding a drawn sword to his breast, as
he himself expresses it in his Diary. The horse is dressed in
large embroidered trappings, with a plume of feathers on its
head, and the date 1551 under it. The circumscription reads :
Edward VI., D. G. Agl. Fba. Z. Hibr. Bex. On the reverse :
Posvi. Devm. A Divtor. E. Mdv. Y.
No. 2 is a shilling of King Edward Vis., with the King's
bust full faced, crowned, and in his parliamentary robes, with
a chain of the Order of the Garter. On one side of the head is
a large double rose, and on the other XII (pence), with this
legend. Edward : VI : D : G : Agl : Fra : Z : Hib : Rex. Y :
This is said to have been the first and only English coin bear-
ing the Collar of the Garter.
No. 8 is the half-sovereign of the same King. It has the
king's bust in armour, crowned, and labelled : Edward VI : D :
G : Agl : Fra : Z : Hib : Rex. Y. The reverse bears the arms
in an oval shield, garnished and crowned : Scvtvm : Fidbi :
Proteoit : Evm.
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No. 4 is a base shilling of Edward VTs., bearing the York
Mint mark Y, the head in profile crowned; with a legend
Edwabd : VI. D : G : Agl : Pba : Z : Hra : Bex : Y :
Perhaps some other of your numismatic readers will supply
other Yorkshire examples. U.M.
Mr. J. Verity, of Earlsheaton, whose extensive collection of
coins of all descriptions is well known, has kindly forwarded
blocks representing the Pontefract Siege Shilling.
His sixth catalogue gives a copy of Edward VPs Sixpence
from the York Mint. Edwabd : VI : D : G : Agl : Fba : Z :
Hibeb : Rex : Y. Bust, front face, crowned, with Bose and
VI. Posvi Dev : A DifTORE Mev. Y. ; cross, bearing shield.; i
He has also Charles I's half-crowns, shillings, sixpences,
threepences of York Mint, and a Pontefract shilling of lozenge
shape ; obv. front of castle, with XII to the right, P above, C
beneath, Obs to the left. William III had Half-crowns struck
at York mint.
The Universal Magazine for April, 1756, mentions a Ponte-
fract half-crown, lozenge shape, with C. B., a crown, XXX,
Dux Spibo Spebo. Beverse, the castle, and a hand out of one
of the towers holding a drawn sword, Obs. P.O., 1648. A copy
of the shilling is given but differs from the above cut in having
no hand with drawn sword, but P. XII. C. in the place thereof,
and no P. C. above the tower.
Dorksljitt tSKaterfaiis anb (Kaiws.
Scalebeb Fobce, as will be seen from the accompanying
illustration, (see frontispiece,) is a charming bit of scenery. It
is about a mile and a half from Settle on the Malham road,
which the Scaleber beck crosses. The Hattermire or Atter-
myre Cliffs, great castle-like walls of limestone, with ledges
running across, form a magnificent picture. A cave in the
bee of this amphitheatre was known to the Bomans, some of
their implements having been found in it. This cave was dis-
covered by a dog belonging to Mr. Jackson, of Settle, and
named the Victoria Cave. Explorations have taken place for
a great many years, and science has been greatly benefitted by
the results. (West Yorkshire, Davis and Lees.) The Botanist
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and Entomologist will find choice specimens here, and the
Artist will not fail to carry away the remembrance of these
rent and fissured rocks.
Thornton Fokce. — For many years, Mr. Joseph Carr, of
Ingleton, has been writing in newspapers and pamphlet on the
beauties of Ingleton. His efforts are just beginning to succeed,
and few will visit that delightful retreat without being grateful
to him for his persistency. More enchanting scenery, within a
day's ramble, can scarcely (I was writing cannot) be found in
England. Every year will see even larger numbers flock to
this unexcelled attraction. Ingieton Church has just been
rebuilt, but the Norman Font is well worth seeing, and the
Thornton Force.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 135
fortified position of the Church is worthy of note. Passing
oyer the two grains of the Greta (the Dale and Doe becks,) the
visitor turns up the Doe valley, and meets with a succession of
surprises. His first surprise is that he has to pay 2d. ; at the
dose of the day his surprise is that the charge is so small.
Swilla Bottom, Fecca Falls, Thornton Force, Ravenwray,
Twiselton Scars, Beezley Falls in the Dale or Greta valley,
Backstone Gill Hole, Yew Tree Gorge, Slate Quarries, and
Ingleborough mountain, successively demand attention.
Thornton Force is a waterfall of sixty feet, poured from a
ledge of limestone over a breast of slate. The surrounding
shrubbery of the dale adds to the beauty, and the heavy,
mountainous background gives the whole a romantic appear-
ance. You may safely walk on the ledge behind the cascade,
and gain the full power of the thundering cataract. Below is
the dark pool, beyond which is a little gem island ; the resound-
ing rock over head threatens to crush you, the seething waters
roar out protests against your intrusion. You are quite safe,
but yon feel safer when you return.
Four miles from Ingleton, on the Hawes road, is Weather-
cote, the finest of Ingleton's waterfalls, one which has engaged
the pencil of J. M. W. Turner. On the road to it call at
Easegill Force. Passing God's bridge, over the Dale beck,
near Chapel le Dale you reach Weathercote cave, for which
you require a guide, and the marvellous Fall, 75 feet, unde-
scribable by pen or pencil, soon makes you awe-stricken,
(jingle pot, a chasm of fifty feet, reckoning from the precipice,
is a couple of hundred yards away ; and Hurtle Pot, over thirty
yards in diameter, is near the Chapel. The gurgling of the
water in this deep pool, after heavy rain, has given the rustics
the idea of Hurtle Pot Boggart. After heavy floods these pots
boil over with great violence.
Easegill Fobce is formed by the Jenkin beck, (a tributary of
the Lane,) which rises on the south side of Ingleborough, and
at Easegill falls from a height of thirty or forty feet "over a
hollow rock, and then dashes on to a sloping rock beneath a
natural bridge, with a span of about twelve feet. This bridge,
which is elevated about six yards above the bed of the stream,
is thirteen feet below the point where the water begins to fall.
The rocks rise on each side of the opening to a considerable
height, and are partly clad with ivy, ferns, and lichens, and
trees grow here and there on the ledges and out of the crevices.
There is an easy path on the right, as you look at the fall,
which leads to the top of the bridge, whence you have a very
pretty bird's eye view through the romantic verdant arbour
beneath." This description of Easegill, and the picture, are
from a "Practical Pictorial Guide to Ingleton," by Thomas
Johnson, Church st., Blackburn, price 3d.
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
187
Yobdas Catb, so named from Yordas, a giant, whose chamber
and oven are pointed out, is nearly five miles from Ingleton.
It contains a great number of stalactites and stalagmites. The
entrance opens into a large chamber sixty yards long, twenty
yards high, and beyond this there is a second one with a fine
cascade in wet weather. Mr. Whittingdale, of Westhouse,
Bentham, gives permission to explore this cave. The stream
is the Doe, which passes on to Thornton Force. In this part
it is known as Kingsdale beck, and rises on Wheraside. The
Ingleton Pale beck rises on Blea moor, another side of the
same mountain. Amongst these limestone hills are several
other caves and waterfalls, — Bowting, Gingling, Gatekirk, and
Douk Caves amongst the principal. The geologist and botanist
will be delighted with this district.
Ingleborough Cave.
Inolbbobough Cave, a short distance above the village of
Clapham, was formerly the watercourse of the stream from the
Gaping Gill Hole. The Clapdale beck, a tributary of the
Wenning, is a most delightful reach of scenery. We have a
deep gorge, with steep banks overgrown by a dense wood, and on
either side bare, majestic, limestone escarpments. As usual in
the district there is a succession of waterfalls, and the scenery
is probably, unsurpassed in the country. From Trougill gorge
the ancient bed of the stream may be traced up Ingleborough.
Half-a-mile from Trougill is Gaping Gill Hole, down which the
stream tumbles nearly four hundred feet, and at the bottom of
188 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the cleft follows a subterranean coarse for nearly a mile. Mr.
Fairer' s Caves are on the line, and have been explored for half
a mile.
A long account will be found in Phillips' Yorkshire. Alum
Pot, near Selside, Hull Pot and Hunt Pot, near Horton, with
others of that district, must be treated of in another paper.
Kino's Manos House, York. — About a hundred years ago,
part of this house was a well known ladies' school, and
daughters of county families were pupils. Lady Mexbro' (Miss
Stephenson) was a great beauty, grandmother of the present
Lord Mexbro'. The following lines are written on panes of
glass :
B. Dunoombe came to the Manor, 1786.
Ann Robson came to the Manor, July 81st, 1769.
Jane Robson came to the Manor, September 8rd, 1769.
Lady Christina Elizabeth Keith came to the Manor, 1786.
M. Boyes came to the Manor at five years old.
People say Tom going to run off with Lieutenant HalL
Wharton.
Kitty Collins left the Manor, June 21st, /92.
Catherine Fisher loves somebody.
I love Miss Parker and Miss Walker. A. M. Armytage.
I am glad it is five o'clock.
Ann Coates, Stokesley, 1618.
Sweet Mr. Orde.
Had I been Paris & Miss Senhouse there
The apple had never fell to Yenus's share
Nanny Wrightson.
Had I been Paris & Lady Mexbro' there
The apple had not fallen to Yenus's share.
A. Wharton, Scarbro', 1798.
Richardson & Duncombe if you love me as
I love you, I never shall be forgot by two, —
I hope Dame means to let me go to another play this winter.
Nothing is so disagreeable to me as Croft's silly humour.
Askew.
A Musgrave came to the Manor, 1618.
M. Seaton came 1810.
Shun all men. E. T.
A. Coates, 1618.
fUrorfts of the IflUst fUMttg.
The steps recently taken by the Court of Quarter Sessions
in connection with the records of the West Biding in the
custody of the Clerk of the Peace have brought to public notice
how extensive and important is the collection possessed by the
YORKSHIRE NOTES AMD QUERIES. 189
riding. Mr. Francis Darwin moved some time since for the
appointment of a committee to report as to these records.
Upon the request of the committee the Historical Manuscript
Commission deputed Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson, who is well known
as an antiquarian expert, to investigate the subject. We learn
from his report that the records comprise the following docu-
ments, viz : —
1. Sessions rolls from the year 1669 to the present time.
2. Indictment books from the year 1687 to the present time,
in 109 volumes.
8. Order books for the same period, in 65 volumes.
4. Registers of estates pertaining to Catholics in the 18th
century, and of awards under Acts of Parliament for enclosures
and other public works, with indentures touching the same.
5. Plans and reference books touching turnpike trusts, public
roads, canals, railways, bridges, and other public works.
Following Mr. Jeaffreson's suggestions, the magistrates have
caused a catalogue to be made of the entire series of sessions
rolls and their contents.
Referring to the catalogue, we find that the sessional rolls
are about 2400 in number. Throwing as they do a great
amount of light upon our local, and indeed, we may say, our
national history for the past 200 years, we think some account
of the contents of these rolls will not be without interest to our
readers. Among the most important classes of documents to
be found in the rolls may be mentioned indictments and the
various papers relating thereto, convictions, orders, with peti-
tions and various other documents bearing upon them,
sacramental and other certificates. In addition to these there
are numerous other papers too varied for any brief classification.
Referring to the indictments, it is remarkable how great a
variety of subjects were formerly dealt with. The ordinary
classes of crime are common to all periods, but we find that
matters of what are now thought to be of domestic or private
concern were once considered proper to be tried by a court. It
would appear that the morals and manners of our ancestors
were much better cared for than is the case now ; thus, there
are presentments for non-attendance at church, and records as
to the observance of various religious ordinances, the swearing
of profane oaths, and the like. Among similar orders it is
recounted that one Sarah (we forbear giving her full name) was
some 200 years back found to be a "common scold,*' and
ordered to be set on the Market Cross at Wakefield, with a
paper on her forehead signifying her offence. Of a different
class are the numerous indictments relating to the decay of
bridges and highways. Their importance even at the present
day is very great, and they have to be referred to not un-
frequently when questions as to the liability to repairs have to
140 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
be decided. Those whose business it becomes to make a search
for the more ancient indictments will doubtless welcome the
assistance of the catalogue.
Turning to the orders and petitions much curious and in-
teresting matter is met with. Here are petitions for relief by
townships and persons desiring grants of public money under
various circumstances. Townships complaining of the heavy
burden of maintaining their own poor and seeking assistance,
or again asking for relief by reason of the destruction of roads
and bridges by storm and tempest, or for briefs to enable them
to raise contributions towards the rebuilding of churches, &c.
Private individuals supplicating for gratuities where they had
lost goods or stock through divers untoward events, such as
accidents by fires, flood, or drought, or on account of illness or
poverty, plagues to man or beast, and indeed in case of almost
every species of misfortune which might betide. It is needless
to point out that this species of what may almost be called
paternal jurisdiction has now in a large measure passed away,
its place having been taken by other agencies; but these
accounts are interesting as illustrating the gradual growth of
our institutions and the way in which justices have been found
to accommodate themselves to progressive advances of the
times.
The difficulties connected with Papists are demonstrated by
the mass of petitions, informations, recognisances, and other
documents concerning them, and by the references to proceed-
ings at conventicles and unlawful assemblies. The numerous
records of fines, penalties, and other punishments indicate the
severity of the Papist persecution as carried on at the close of
the 17th century. Passing on to a later period we meet with
documents bearing upon the troublous times prior to the
Restoration, aud shedding much light upon the history of by-
gone days. Coming to the 18th century, when so much alarm
was created by the Pretender, the justices and other authorities
appear to have been very active, and we find various papers
touching the rebuilding of beacons, the setting of watches, and
of grants of money to compensate for losses incurred in assisting
(sometimes under compulsion) in the transmission of baggage
and troops.
At an earlier date there appear to have been frequent petitions
from "lame and disabled soldiers" for grants of pensions, their
claim being generally that, having been disabled or wounded
when serving under Charles I. against Cromwell, they had since
fallen into destitution ; the pension granted was usually forty
shillings per annum, raised by special estreat upon the respec-
tive wapentakes. These petitions set forth interesting particulars
of service, and of the actions and sieges in which the petitioners
had been severally engaged. At this period, too, there are
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 141
numerous papers dealing with the farming of monopolies and
other imposts for replenishing the exchequers of embarrassed
royalty.
The invention and introduction of a new tax must oftentimes
have been a source of grave perplexity to the financier of that
day. Some few years back our readers will recollect the outcry
there was at a suggestion for taxing matches, but what would
now be thought of a tax on hearths, such as was formerly
exacted?
The justices have now decided, on the recommendation of
the committee before mentioned, that an alphabetical index
shall be prepared giving a description of such of the Orders of
Sessions as are of permanent interest or importance. Such an
index, as affording a ready means of reference to the whole
series of 65 voluminous order books, will be of great practical
utility; and although antiquarians may perhaps regret that the
quarter sessions have not undertaken the compilation of a
complete and comprehensive calendar index to the whole of the
indictments and sessions orders as was suggested by Mr.
Jeaffreson, the justices have probably exercised a wise economy,
so far as the interests of the ratepayers are concerned, in limit-
ing the scope of the index in accordance with the advice given
by their committee.
A perusal of these rolls would well repay the antiquarian or
historian, and we cannot but think that as the contents of the
collection become better known and more easily accessible many
will be glad to avail themselves of so valuable and interesting a
source of reference. It is gratifying to learn that the public
records of the West Riding have been well preserved by their
custodians, and that our magistrates are taking so active an
interest in the matter. Yorkshire Post, May, 1882.
[The late Mr. Fairless Barber worked diligently in urging
the Magistrates to arrange, and publish extracts from the
sessions rolls, and it is probably due in no small measure to
his urgency and Col. Brooke's advocacy, that the before-
mentioned report was prepared. The Editor has already given
specimens in these pages from the sessions rolls, culled in
1872. Other excerpts will follow.]
County Record Office. — Now that County Boards are the
order of the day, the Editor suggests that all Yorkshire His-
torical and Genealogical Manuscripts should be gathered into
a County muniment room, open gratuitously under same con-
ditions as the British Museum and the Rolls Office, London, at
York. The following appeared in the Athenaum, in July, 1882 :
Will you kindly allow me to suggest through your columns
the desirability of establishing County Record Offices ; and I
may mention the materials we have in Yorkshire as illustrative
of the utility of such offices : (1) Wills from 1800 ; (2) Parish
142
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Begisters from 1588 ; (8) Bishops' Transcripts, from 1588 ; (4)
Sessions Bolls from 1640 ; (5) Nonconformist Begisters to be
recalled from Somerset House, where they have been buried
for nearly two generations ; (6) Institution, Presentation, and
Act Books, now carefully preserved at York, along with other
valuable ecclesiastical documents, dating from 1200; (7)
Churchwardens1 and Constables' Books, dating often from
1600 ; (8) Manor Bolls, as such may be deposited by favour ;
(9) purely Yorkshire muniments at the Becord Office and
British Museum, e.g., the Calverley Evidences ; (10) bequests of
deeds, &c.
A custodian (who could employ his spare hours in transcrib-
ing and indexing,) and sufficient accommodation would not
require more than 8001. per annum, exclusive of desks and
bookcases. Those who sought information for general his-
torical purposes should be able to obtain access freely, by
making application by letter previously; others should be
charged ten shillings per day ; official certificates to be paid for
as usual. The income would probably average 200/.
A 8 convener of the meetings in Yorkshire at which reso-
lutions were passed (1) disapproving of Mr. Borlase's Bill
unless due provision was made for local requirements, and (2)
forming a Yorkshire society for the publication of parish
registers, I should like to suggest that similar action should be
taken in other counties. J. Hobsfall Turner.
THE ASSESSMENT OF THE YEAB 1584.
AgBBIG & MOBLEY.
West Ardsley
...
iijs.
Cumberworth
xiid.
East Ardsley
...
ijs.
Drighlington
iijs.
Almondbury
...
viijs.
Dalton
ijs.
Allerton
...
iijs.
Dewsbury
vis.
Altofts
...
iiijs.
Eland cum Gretland
iiijs.
Airton
...
iiijs.
Erinden
ijs.
Beiston
...
vis.
Ecclesall
ijs.
Barsland
•••
iijs.
Emsey
iiijs.
Bramley cum Armley
vis.
ffarneley juxta Leedes
iiijs.
Bolton
•••
ijs.
ffarneley tyas
ijs.
Bollyng
...
iijs.
fflockton both
ijs.
Batley
...
ijs.
Gomrsall
iiijs.
Bradford
...
vis.
Kirke Heaton
ijs.
Kirk Burton
•••
ijs.
Heaton cum Clayton
iiijs.
Crigleston
•••
VB.
Horburye
iiijs.
Croston
...
iijs.
Calverley cum farsley
vs.
Clifton
•••
ijs.
Hartesheade
ijs.
IJS.
South Croeland
•••
iijs.
Hunes worth ...
Clackheaton
...
iijs.
Haworth
ijs.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
148
Holmefirth ... viijs.
fluddersfeld ... vis.
Hnnselet ... iiijs.
Howley half ... ijs.
Horton ... ijs.
Hipperholme cum \
Brighouse j TO'
Heekmondwicke ... ijs.
Heptonstall ... vs.
Hauifax ... vs.
Idle ... iijs.
Liyersedge ... iiijs.
Lepton ... ijs.
Langefeld ... ijs.
Mirfeld ... vis.
Medley ... ixs.
Middleton ... ijs.
Marsheden ... ijs.
Maningham ... ijs.
Morley ... iiijs.
Heltham half ... ijs.
Migeley ... iiijs.
North birley ... iijs.
Normanton ... iijs.
Northowram ... vs.
Ovenden ... iiijs.
Ossett ... viis.
Pudsey ... iijs.
Quick ... iijs.
Raistrick cam ffixbie iijs.
Bishforth cum Norlande iijs.
Rothwell ... ixs.
Bhitlington als )
Netherton f UJS*
Sharleston ... ills.
Slackwathe (Slaithwaite) ijs.
Shipley
Stainland
Sandall •
Skircote cum Shelf
Sower bie
Stanley
Stansfeld
SutteU
Southowram
Shepley
Shelley
Sindall
Thornell
Thurstonland
Thorndton
Thorpsup'monte ...
Tonge
Warley
Wharnbie (Quarmby)
Wads worth
Warmefeld cum Heath
Wike
Walton cum
Wortley
Whitwood
Wakefeld
rjs.
ijs.
iijs.
ijs.
vijs.
viijs.
iijs.
iijs.
vs.
ijs.
xiid.
ijs.
iiijs.
ijs.
xijd.
xijd.
iijd.
vs.
vs.
iiijs.
iiijs.
iijs.
iiijs.
iiijs.
ijs.
xvs.
THE SESSEMENT FOR YE SURVEYOUR,
West Riding co. Ebor.
Setback cuv libty. of Otley & Leedes.
1584,
Otley
X8.
Eepaxe
, ... xs,
Hawksworth
ijs.
Menston
iiis.
Carleton
ijs.
Secroft
vs.
Preston
xs.
Thornnour
vis. viiid,
Rigton
xs.
Estkeswyke
iiis. iiiid.
Bayldon
iiis.
Allaneley
iis. iiiid
Gyseley
Wodesom
iis.
Awsthorpe
iiiis
iis.
NewBame
xvis.
8willingtone
xvis.
Yedone
iiis
Ledyston
vis. viiid.
Wodersley
xvis
Horsford
... iiis.
Wyke
iiis.
Aflerton Gledhow... vs.
Potternewton
... V18
Powell (Pool)
iiis.
Barwyke
xs
144
YOBKSHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Hedingley ... iiis.
Collingham ... iiiis.
Pollington iiis. iiiid.
AUerton in Aqua ... iiiis.
Abberfurth ... iiis.
Ylkley ... iiis.
Wigton ... iiis.
Byngley • ... xs.
Morton ... iis.
Bawden ... iis.
Harwode
Arthington
Haddyl
Shadwell
leedeB
Burley
Thorp Stapleton
Scarcroft
xs.
iiis.
iiis. iiiid.
vs.
XXS.
iis.
xvid.
xiid.
Garfurthe cum li-\ . ..,
bertate beate marie jvl8" vua*
Wep.' de barkeston cum babon de Sherburne.
east hadlesaye ... ts.
burne ... vis.
gatefurth ... vis.
Breton ... vs.
Hamelton ... vs.
Carleton ... xvs.
Ryther ... xs.
Towton ... xs.
Clifford ... viis.
Wistow ... xxs.
Saxton ... xs.
Button vis. viiid.
Statton vis. viiid.
Barley ... vijs.
ffenton ... xs.
South mylefurth ... vijs.
butterington ... vs.
Hayslewode ... iijs.
Bramham cum Ogyl-) ....
thorpe J uus-
Sherburne in Elmet xxs.
Gollyston ... iiijs.
Cawode ... xxs.
Byrkyn vis. viijd.
meklefeld • ... vs.
Mrkbye ... iijs.
newton kyme . . . iiijs.
ffryston ... vs.
Barkyston ... iiijs.
AOBRIG & MORLEY GUM LIBU.
myrfeld
Shipley
wyke
Calverley
north byerley
lofthouse
IJS,
111JS.
xyjs.
xyjs.
iiijd.
ijs.
xyjd.
Thorpwillingbye ... ijs.
Hudleston cum lumby iiiijs.
Grimston ... ijs.
ledshame ... ijs.
Tadcaster ... xs.
Burton ... vis.
west hadlesey vis. viijd.
ffareburne vis. viijd.
drax ... xs.
Hurste ... xs.
newton wallys iijs. iiijd.
Hillome yjs. viijd.
Byrome iijs. iiijd.
ps Arch in Brotherton xijd.
Selbye ... xxxs.
hessye monkton Knap- ]
ton Apylton & acaster J s#
Popelton suprior ... xs.
Libe'tas de bramham yjs.
Atsham cum holdgate xvs.
Popylton inferior ... xs.
lib'tas de hewyke of t ..
Uskill ... vijs.
Gatehill ... ijs.
newthorpe cum ledsham iijs.
merton cum grafton iiijs.
lib'tas de Brotherton ijs.
de Halifax et Wakefield.
Bcyrcotte ... xvjd.
hetenolake (Gleckh.) iijs. iiijd.
haworth ... xyjd.
Shelfe ijs. iiijd.
Batley ... xyjd.
EUand ... ijs.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
146
mannyngham
xxd.
Ovenden
iijs.
Bolton
xyjd.
Glaton
ijs.
Barsland
ijs.
hekmondwyke
xxd.
Gomersall
iiijs.
Staynland
iijs. iiijd.
Bollinge
xyjd.
lererse'gge
ijs.
horton
xxd.
mydleton
iijs.
Tonge
xyjd.
Scuthowrame
xvjd.
Byshworth
xxd.
warlye
iijs. iiijd.
Ecleshill
iijs.
wadsworth
iiijs.
myghley
iijs.
fiekesby
xxd.
hallyefaxe
xxvis. viijd.
Btaynfeld
iijs.
langhfeld
ijs.
Rastryke
ijs. iiijd.
weyke
iijs.
Bradforth
X8.
fernbye (fernlye]
iijs.
Bramley
iiijs.
wykerley
xxd.
ffarseley
xxd.
Bereton
iijs.
Pudsay
iiijs.
drighlington
ijs. vid.
heyton
ijs. yiijd.
4 Soytyll
ijs.
northowrome
ijs. viijd.
herp'me (Hipperh.) iijs. iiijd.
Allerton
ijs. vijd.
8ourby
iiijs.
Thornton
iijs. iiijd.
hunnesworth
ijs.
huneslett
YS.
Clyfton
ijs.
Bothwell cum Carletone xs.
dewsbnrye
iijs. iiijd.
Idyll
ijs. iiijd
Morley
vs
Ardyslowe
iiijs.
hartyshed
ijs.
Wakefeild
xxs.
heyton
iiijs.
dalton
ijs.
ffarnlye Tyas
ijs.
holmfurth
iijs.
Slaythwett
ijs.
Cumberworth
... xxd.
huddersfeld
iijs. iiijd.
lepton
iiijs.
whermby (Quarmby) mjs.
north crossland ... xyjd.
Grossland halfe ... xijd.
flockton ... iiijs.
Aykton ... iijs.
whytwodd iijs. iiijd.
Shytlington iijs. iiijd.
warmfeld ... iijs.
whytby[ly] iijs. iiijd.
normanton cum hospite iijs.
Snydall ... xxd.
Almnburye iijs. iiijd.
Shelley ... iijs.
Shepley ... iijs.
meltham ... ijs. yjd.
Thornhill ... vs.
Ossett ... vs.
Btaynley ... vjs.
Altofts ... iiijs.
Walton ... iiijs.
Thonrstonland ... ijs.
Sandall ... iiijs.
dimid (half) Bretton xxd.
Burton ... ijs.
medley ... viijs.
horbnry iijs. iiijd.
Gregylston iijs. iiijd.
Emley ... ijs.
Croston ... iijs.
Sharleston ... iijs.
howley ... iijs.
16.8.6.
T.N.Q.
146
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
WAP' DB OSGODOBOSSE & DIMID HONORIS DK PoNTEFBAIT.
Nostell
ijs. yjd.
wheldall
ijs.
Gastlefurtli
iiijs.
Stapylton
iiijs.
Broughton
iiijs.
Sineaton p'va
iiijs.
Badsworth
iiijs.
Credlinge
iiijs.
knottyngley
viijs.
South Elmesall
vs.
Skelbrooke
vs.
Boall
iijs. iiijd.
Thorpawdleybye
iiijs.
Ackworth
vjs.
fryston by the water iiijs.
Wrangbrooke
... ijs. yjd.
pomfrette
xiijs. iiijd.
Stubbes walden
iijs.
Skellowe
vijs.
Upton
iijs.
darington
viijs.
norton neare Campsall xs.
kyrkefaenton
vs.
north elmsall
vs.
prestoii
VJS.
wom'sley
xs.
Garleton
iiijs.
South kyrkby
vs.
fetherston
iiijs.
7.9.8.
OSGODCBOSSE AN
d Mabsheland.
hawdonbye
vijs.
hensall
iiijs.
fokerbye
viijs.
pollington
xs.
Adlingflete
xs.
hecke
vijs.
Whitgyfte
vijs.
whetlye
iiijs.
vskett
viijs.
Egburgh
vs.
Rednesse wthout
tyes
^ } xiijs.
kellyngton
Beall
iiijs.
vis.
Rednesse w^in '.
yb'tye vjs.
Bramwyth
vs.
howke
viijs.
Campsall
xxyjs. viijd.
Armyne
vs.
Burwallys a's |
Burghwallys }
..
Roclyffe
xs.
V1J8.
Snayth
XX8.
Anston
XS.
GoldhaU
VS.
9.15.8.
Weapont de
Staincbosse.
hundyehelfe
iijs.
Boyston
iijs.
Guntwhette
xxd.
hygheholland
iijs.
Sylkston
iiijs.
Tankersley
iijs.
langsett
iijs.
Edworth
iiijs.
wortley
vs.
Shafton
ijs.
byaohworth
xijd.
Barnesley
X8.
dodworth
iijs. iiijd.
Ardesley
xyjd.
Oxspringe
iijs.
Ghette
yjd.
Beyll
iijs.
Brearley
iijs. iiijd.
Thurgurland
iijs.
penyston
iiijs.
Claton
iijs.
hymsworth
iiijs.
holland swayne
iijs.
Skemlthorpe
xxd.
denby
iijs. iiijd.
Wolley
... ^ xxd.
notton
iijs.
kexburghe
... ijs. yjd.
west bretton
xijd.
Steynburghe
xxd.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8.
147
wyntersett
xvjd.
Cawthorne
vijs.
denton
iiijs.
wospurne
viijs.
barghe
iijs. iiijd.
hyndeley
... ijs. vid.
Thurlyston
... . VJS.
6.8.8.
hanercrofte
... ijs. vjd.
Wapent'
DE CLABO.
newall
iiijs.
Rygton
xxd;
weston
xvjd.
pva Tymkyll
xijd.
oesfeld
xxd.
Atherlawe
vjs.
fferneley
iiijs.
Greneham'ton
... ijs. vjd.
denton
iiijs.
kyrkham'ton
iijs.
Colthorpe
xxd.
whyxley
... ijs. vid.
medleton
ijs.
South dighton
iiijs.
Bypley
ijs.
Aldfeld
iiijs.
nonmonkton
iiijs.
bnnsingborne
iijs.
plompton
iiijs.
Goldsburghe
vs.
Askwyth
iiijs.
Gowldthorpe
...vjs. viijd.
Spofforth
iijs.
Reinseley )
Rem'ley J
... ijs. vjd.
lynton
... ijs. vjd.
leythley
ijs.
wynkersley
iijs. iiijd.
wetherbye
vjs. viijd.
fflapley
... ijs. vjd.
Synclynghall
iiijs.
lynleye al'Lyndley xvjd.
pva uskurne
ijs. viijd.
AUerton mallevey ijs.
pva Rykston
dnntfurd
iijs.
dun keswyke
xxd.
ijs.
kyrbye
kyrkbie
... ijs. vjd.
magna Rykston)
cu hospit' J
ma
... ijs. vjd.
... JJo.
ffolyfayte
... ijs. vid.
Castley
ijs.
magna Cattail
iiijs.
wyghton
xxd.
Topgraue
... ijs. vid.
Staynburne
... ijs. vid.
northdighton
iijs. iiijd.
kirkby malsard
>xs.
7.6.
Libebtat'
DE RlPPON.
westwike
xvjd.
Skelton
iiijs.
non wyke
iiijs.
Thorpe
...iijs. vid.
noth Stanley
iijs.
newbye
... ijs. vid.
Kyndall
vijs.
hewyke
iijs.
Osmonderbye
iiijs.
Thornton
vs.
Sally
iiijs.
Sharbure
iijs.
Ingraththorpe
iijs.
Glothorme cu' |
bishopton J
..
merkynton
iijs. iiijd.
... IJS.
Stndley
iijs. iiijd.
monkton
iiijs.
nydd
iiijs.
Ryppon
xxxs.
Grantley cu' \
Enyston J
iiijs.
4.17.10.
Libetat' de ]
£nabesbubghe.
Tymkyll
iiijs.
1 Clyent
iiijs.
Thurscrosse
iiijs.
1 Kyllinghall
iiijs.
148
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Brearton
Burton
Erkendale
ffernnam
South Stanley
Staneley
Screvyn
Sutton
Enaesburgh
...ij6. yj.
iijs. iiijd.
iijs.
iijs. iiijd.
iijs.
iiijs.
iiijs.
... ijs. vjd.
xijs. iiijd.
Burgbrigge yjs. viiijd.
Aldeburgh ... vijs.
mynskyppe ... vs.
magna usburne ... ijs.
Bawcliffe ... iiijs.
liunburton iijs. iiijd.
kyrbye Cattail ... ijs. vjd.
4.5.6.
Wapont' de tickell & Stratford cum libetatibus.
Bosington
Brawell
wombewell
halton magna
Thrybergh
Conysburgh
Bawtrye
harthill
byllome
iijs.
iijs.
viijs.
iijs.
ijs.
iijs. iiijd.
viijs.
vijs.
ijs.
balbye et Oxthorpe iijs. iiijd.
Krymsfurth ... ijs. vjd.
Brampton } -.
juxta wath ) *" J
wath ... ijs. vjd.
warmsworth ... ijs.
Bramley ... ijs.
Ousterfeld ... ijs. iijd.
Bramcroft ... ijs. vjd.
alton ... ijs.
vlley ... ijs.
Eclesfeild ... vijs.
amthorpe ... ijs.
darfeld ... iiijs.
Pygburne p't ... ijs. vjd.
loversall ... ij. vjd.
Blakston et alkley iiijs.
Rawmarshe ... vs.
edlington ... vs.
Sandall et wheat hey vs.
Bradfeld ... xxs.
hatefeld ... vs.
Toddwyke ... ijs. vjd.
kyrk sandall iijs. iiijd.
Clayton ... ijs.
Barmby sup dunne vjs. viijd.
ffyehelake ... vs. iiijd.
Thorne ...iijs. iiijd.
11J8.
. ijs
.iijs
"jijs
Cadebie
Stubbes ham'poll
hoyton pannell
whyston
Cantley
langtwhate
Treton
Thrownstore
Staynfurth
hykylton
Brampton cu math-
ing
ffrickley
Banfeld
doncaster
hamesworth
Aston in ye morninge
Anston
heton leveet
Botheram
Shelf eld
Warmsworth et \
Carhouse { '"'
Barnbrogh
Bentley
kymberworth
Thorpealvyn al. ) ... .... ,
dymydi Bramton ... iijs.
mjs.
ijs.
vjs.
iiijs.
iiijs.
iiijs.
iiijd.
vjd.
. vjd.
iiijs.
.vjd.
xxd.
xxd.
xxxs.
vs.
iiijs.
iijs.
xvjd.
XX8.
XX8.
iijs.
V8.
XVJ8.
VS.
dimyd wath
Holland
walles
wentworth
wykersley
Sprodburgh
Ryllyingley
mexburghe
... ijs. vjd.
ijs.
... ij. vjd.
iijs. iiijd.
ijs.
vjs. viijd.
xxd.
vs.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
149
Staynsall
iijs. iiijd.
hoton Roberto
iijs.
wadworth
iiijs.
maltby
iijs.
Swynton
iiijs.
Langhton in morn-]
Bradsworth
...iijs. yjd.
inge
r yd.
marre
iiijs.
Scawsbye
iijs.
Bolton
iijs. iiijd.
Tynslawe
yijs.
Adwykeupon
dearneiijs.iiijd.
hyghemelton
iiijs.
Athwyke of streets vjs.
Gresbrooke
iijs. iiijd.
Staynton
vs.
Tykhill
xxs.
denybye
... ijs. yjd.
Langhton pva
... ijs. yjd.
Stoynfeld
xijd.
21.6.4.
Weapon' db Stainolif cu libetatibus.
Brasvrell
vs.
preston
iijs. iiijd.
hebden
... ij. yjd.
Scothorpe
ijs.
Thornton
iiijs.
kettylwell
iiijs.
newsom
xijd.
hawnlythe
xijd.
Bemyngton
ijs.
lynton
ijs. viijd.
medhope
ijs.
Broughton
iiijs.
Gysbnrne
iijs.
Scladburne
iijs. viijd.
Otterborne
xijd.
Esyngton
ijs.
Styrton
ijs.
ham'ton
ijs.
heirthlington
i ... ijs.
Conyston in )
kettlewell j
... ijs. yjd.
ffernhill
ijs.
8kypton
xs.
helleffeld
iijs.
halton west
xxd.
G-argrave
iiijs.
burnsall
iijs.
kyrkby
xxd.
Selesden
iijs.
Galton
ijs.
Adingham
iijs.
Ayrton
...ijs. iiijd.
Glystrarne
ijs.
hetton
ijs. viijd.
Conyston in
Graven ijs.
newton
... xxd.
Pathorn
ijs.
horton
xxd.
hwkeswyke
... ij. yjd.
Carleton
iijs. iiijd.
Esthton
xvjd.
Wygylsworth
... ijs. vjd.
Reykton
... ijs. yjd.
Staynfirth
iijs.
lamlyffe
ijs.
Bradley
ijs.
Kytton
iijs. iiijd.
Gyrsington
ijs. viijd.
Swendon
... ijs. iiijs.
Tresfeld
... ij. xd.
mallame
iiijs.
Apyltreweke
iijs.
Gygylswyke
iiijs.
Skybden
yjd.
Arncliffe
ijs.
halton of hill
xxd.
Crakeowe
ijs.
kyldwyke
ijs.
Bolton
iiijs.
Gollinge
ijs.
Rothemell
ijs.
Emsay
ijs.
8etteU
iijs.
Sutton
ij.
fflaxbye
ijs.
Steton
ijs. viijd.
marton
ijs. viijd.
kyghley
ijs.
pathnall
... ijs. yjd.
droughton
... xvjd.
160
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Bidden ... ijs. waddyngton
newton in bollande iiijs. mytton
Crynglington ... iiijs. Bashame
bradfurth ... iiijs. 9.18.4.
Weapon' de Yoworosse.
liorton inBibylsdale ijs. vjd. Glaphame
Burton in londysO .. .A Ingleton
dale f 1J8*^d* dente
Awstwyke ijs. viijd. Sedgbrge
Benthame ijs. viijd. 27.
Thornton ... ijs. Sum' tot
iijs. viijd.
ijs.
xxd.
ijs. viijd.
iiijs.
iiijs.
iiijs.
cxxli xvs. ijd.
Dorksbu* €xn%%t%.
Stainland Cross, of which we give a woodcut by permission
of Mr. Birtwhistle, is thus described in Crabtree's Halifax:—
"It represents a saltier or St. Andrew's cross, carved on a
block of stone ; the block is scooped out in the form of a cap,
but the cover that was formerly attached to it has been re-
moved. The shaft is circular and plain, without any of that
rich, uncouth sculpture, or scroll ornament, which antiquarians
generally attribute to Saxon or Danish structures. Its height
from the base to the top of the column is about ten feet, the
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 161
shaft does not exceed five feet. Neither tradition nor history
have preserved the date or purpose of its erection, and the
oldest inhabitant only knows that his paternal sire spoke of it
as a very old affair. Since therefore we are left in the dark
on the subject, we may indulge in a harmless antiquarian
speculation ; in the hope that it may induce a more extended
enquiry among those who are qualified to form an opinion on
its merits. It will be observed that one of the peculiar features
of this structure is its simplicity, and although that very
circumstance may be adduced as an argument in favour of its
antiquity, the fact that the shaft has none of that interlaced
and curious tracery work before referred to is against the pro-
bability of a Saxon origin. Old Hearne, the antiquary, tells
us that ' among us in Britain crosses became most frequent,
when, after William the Conqueror's time, great crusades were
made into the Holy Land. Then crossings or creasings were
used on all occasions. 'Twas not looked upon as enough to
have the figure of the cross both on and in churches, chapels,
and oratories, but it was put also in churchyards, and in every
house, nay, many towns and villages were built in shape of it,
and it was very common to fix it in the very streets and high-
ways." Crosses were not uncommon in the parish. Watson
mentions one in Fixby, which he seems to think was placed by
the wayside, ' according to the superstition of the times ; ' also
'the cross of Mankynholes,' this was in existence prior to the
Reformation, and the presumption is that all of them were, for
it was the custom of the Romish church to erect crosses in
public situations, to remind the traveller of his religious duties;
so far Mr. Watson's conjecture may be correct, but it is open
to doubt whether if this cross had been used as a symbol
of faith, it would have escaped the mistaken zeal of the Reform-
ists; or the fanatical fury of the Puritans, when. they attacked
Bradley Hall, had there been a tradition that it was originally
placed for a superstitious use. It is not improvable that it was
originally placed for a superstitious use. It is not improbable
that it was placed there to mark the boundary of some land.
Crosses were made use of in former times for this purpose,
particularly where lands belonged to monasteries or religious
houses, and it is certain that the Knights of St. John of
Jerusalem had lands in this part of the country, as also the
nuns of Kirklees. There is a statute in existence to prevent
the removal of these species of landmarks. Other descriptions
of crosses, called memorial crosses, are to be found in many
parts of the country, but being in general erected to perpetuate
a particular event, tradition has preserved the history of their
erection."
At present, the Stainland cross is in a dilapidated condition,
and ought to be carefully repaired and preserved by the Local
152 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Board. There are indications of other crosses in Halifax
parish, and the Yorkshire Calder rises near a place in Whalley
parish, named Cross i' th' Dean. Gross-stone, King's Gross
and Stump Gross are still well known. Cross-leigh, which
gave name to the Crossley family, is a very ancient name. In
Huddersfield parish there are Crosslands, and along the Roman
road from Manchester, via Cambodunum (Slack,) to Walton
cross at Hartshead, there are several hamlets named after a
cross that existed in the vicinity. The stumps of the fine
crosses at Bastrick and Walton are still in existence. The
little triangular space of waste land on which the latter stands
has been enclosed by Sir George Armytage, Bart., as a pro-
tection for the venerable relic. As to building villages in the
form of a cross, this is merely imagination. Villages often
rise at cross roads on account of the passing traffic, and
necessarily take the form of a cross. The crosses of the
Knights of St. John, so far as I have observed, and there are ■
many still remaining, are sculptured on houses, in the formn
as at Coley, Fairweather green (Bradford), Harden, &c. ™|
Old deeds, especially those that trace parish and township
boundaries refer to numerous crosses, few of which remain
either as stumps, or in name. Where these still exist, of
course, we know the design was to mark the local boundaries ;
where crosses exist in market places, as at Bingley, Hudders-
field, and nearly all old market towns, it is manifest that they
were erected to secure honesty in business transactions ; where
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
158
they are in the vicinity of old monasteries, their intention was,
probably to indicate sanctuary rights, as were also the Dumb
(or doomed) Steeples, and frith stools, one of which we recently
saw between Whitby and Sandsend, exactly similar to the one
at Beverley as shewn in the woodcut.
Where the crosses are in the
centre of a village, without any
church or market, it is difficult
to give a general reason for
their erection. There is a fine
specimen of such an one at
Okenshaw. The accompanying
woodcut represents the pedi-
ment of the old market cross
at Bradford.
The East Riding is even richer than the West Biding in
remains of village crosses.
Near Hedon is the ancient village of Eeyinoham, which has
three crosses, one in the village street, being a mere stump
upon three
steps. A
blank shield
is on each
side of the
base; the
shaft disap-
peared long
ago. The
second is
known as St. Philip's cross, being in a field west of the town,
near St. Philip's well. The third one is in private grounds,
and is said to have been brought hither from Lincolnshire. It
is about fourteen feet high, and in good .preservation, as will be
seen from our woodcut. [155.] Around the capital is sculptured,
though now considerably worn, the inscription " Sit Gfia Jhu
tibi " ( Gloria sit tibi Jesu). The most interesting, perhaps, is
the historic Bavenspurn Cross, which formerly stood on the
now submerged Bavensburgh, or Bavenspurne, (hence the
name Spurn Point), or Bavencross bourne, where King Henry
IV., when Duke of Lancaster landed in 1899. This cross
164
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
probably was erected iu commemoration of the event, and
supplanted an older Haven cross. It bears several figures or
effigies at the bead. As the sea encroached upon Ravenspurn,
the cross was removed to Kilnsea, where it remained until
1818, when it was removed to Burton Constable, owing to the
threatened destruction of Kilnsea by the same insatiable de-
voured. Kilnsea Church lost one half of its structure in 1826,
the remaining portion of the edifice fell into the sea in 1881.
From Burton Constable the ancient cross was removed to
Hedon, where we saw it a year ago, in the garden of Mr.
Watson, Solicitor, who carefully preserves it in front of his
mansion.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
155
Keyinqham
The cross at Bwike is sup-
posed to be coeval with the an-
cient convent founded in early
Norman times. It is now in a
garden near the church. The
base measures two feet square,
and the shaft is two feet high.
Hornsea,
Swine.
Around Hornsea are several in-
teresting crosses. That of Hobn-
sea (as below) is in Southgate, and
has been badly used. It is about
eight feet in height. There is a
more modern cross in Hornsea
market place. North Frodingham
has a cross erected in 1811, near
156
Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
which formerly stood the pillory. This cross is a substitute
for one that existed here, much similar to the Bradsbubton
Gboss. The latter stands in the large, open, market place,
and is a prominent object from all points. Including the four
plinth steps, the height is about fifteen feet, the octagonal
shaft being about ten feet. It bears very imperfect traces of
ancient sculptured figures, as of two persons, back to back,
kneeling. The stocks shewn in the engraving have been
removed.
In Skeffling church-yard is the shaft of an ancient cross.
About a mile from Leven church, on the Beverley roadi is
Whtteoboss, an exceeding plain structure, near which is a
private dwelling with gothic windows, looking very ecclesias-
tical. In the old church-yard at Leven, was found a beautifully
sculptured head of a cross about five centuries old, representing
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
167
NUNKEELINO.
Atwick.
158
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
on one side the Crucifixion, with St. John and the Virgin ; on
the other, the Virgin and Child, St. Catherine and another
saint. The statement that this is the head of the Whitecross
is totally false, for there is the greatest dissimilarity in design.
The sculptured part is now mounted on a projection within the
new church at Leven, over the south door. (Easter, 1886.)
At Rise was a boundary cross in 1615, known as Huddle
cross.
At Nunkeelino, about a quarter of a mile from the old
priory church (founded about 1150), are the remains of a plain
cross about four feet high, as shewn in the engraving.
The cross of Atwick is near the old church, and seems to
have borne an inscription on its base, but we could not dis-
tinguish a letter. Including the three massive steps, it is
about fifteen feet in height. For a century, the constantly
diminishing distances between the sea cliffs and this cross
have been noted.
Of the fine cross near Whitby Abbey, and other North Riding
crosses, we must write in a future article. T.
Holy wells. — The subject of Holy wells has frequently
cropped up in the pages of the Folk-lore section of the York-
shire Notes and Queries, and as a contribution to the full history
of this subject I send you the following notice, with accompa-
nying woodcut, of the Holy well at Stainland. The part of the
village in which the well is situated has always been known as
Helliwell, and from this, or one of the several helliwells of
Halifax parish, an old family takes its name. The Stainland
well is known as St. Helen's, (a common dedication for wells,)
and near it, now formed into cottages, was a building formerly
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
159
used, according to the tradition, as a popish chapel. A large
stone on one of the walls is called the Gross, and Watson
states that strangers, supposed to be papists, sometimes make
pilgrimages to this cross and well. B.
Roman Altabs at Slack and Greetland. Mr. Watson, more
than a century ago, was shewn at Slack, the site of the Roman
station >Cambodunum (Scamonden), a fine altar of Fortune,
which had
been dis-
covered in
1786, and
which he
gave to Mr.
Whitaker,
the Man-
chester his-
torian. The
site has
been exca-
vated in
modern
years, by
the York-
shire Arch-
sological Association, with most satisfactory results. The
reading is given as follows. Fortunae Sacrum. Caius Antoni-
us Modestus Centurio legionis sextae victricis posuit et votum
solvit lubens merito; from which it appears to have been
erected by C. A. Modestus, centurion of the sixth or conquer-
ing legion,
in discharge
of a vow.
At Greet-
land, a vo-
tive altar
was found
three cent-
uries ago,
which was
seen by Mr.
Camden
when on a
visit of
exploration
in these
parts. Sir
Henry
160 YORKBHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Savile, of Bradley Hall, and John Hanson, of Woodhouse,
near Brighouse, rendered valuable antiquarian assistance to
the old topographer. The altar bears the inscription
DVI CI BRIG
ET NVMM GG
T AVR AVRELIAN
VS DD PRO BE
ET 8VI8 SMNGS
On the reverse :— ANTON
III ET GETA
COSS
This fixes A.D. 208 as the date of erection. The inscription
records that Titus Aurelius Aurelianus dedicates this altar to
the Gods (Dui) of the Brigantian State, and to the Deities of
the Emperor, in behalf of himself and his family. The altar
passed from the Saviles to Sir Robert Cotton, of Conington, in
Cambridgeshire. Horsley saw it in the church there, but it is
now in Trinity College, Cambridge. An interesting notice of it
appears in Hunter's Notices of Clay House, (Yorks. Archaeol.
Journal, Vol. 2.) We have to thank Mr. Birtwhistle for the
two woodcuts. Ed.
Halifax Gibbet Law. — Mr. Lister kindly forwards the
following, which he has recently copied. We regret we did
not know of it before reprinting the Gibbet Book. It will be
seen that the woodcuts fairly represent the machine here
described.
Harl. M.S., 785, 20. 10. (written in a 16th century hand.)
" There is and hathe byne of anciente tyme a lawe or rather
a Custome at Halifax, that whosoen doth Comitte any felonye
and is taken wth the same or confesse the facte upon examin-
acon yf it by (sic) valued by fower counstables to amounts to
the somme of thirtene pence halfe penny, he is forthwith be-
headed upon the nexte market daye (wch fall usually uppon
the tuesdaies thursdays & saterdaies,) or ells uppon the same
daye that he is so conuicted yf markete be then holden. The
engine wherewth the execution is done, is a square blocke of
woode of the length of fower foote & an halfe, wch doth ride
npe & downe in a slot, rabet, or regalt betwene twoo peeces of
tymber that ar framed & set upright of fyue yards in height.
In the nether ende of the slydinge blocke is an Axe keyed or
fastened wth iron into the wood, wch beinge drawen up to the
top of the frame is there fastened wth a woodden pynne, (the
one ende set one a peece of woode wch goethe crosse on the
twoo rabets, and the other ende beinge lett into the blooke,
holdinge the axe, wth a notche made into the same after ye
mann of a Sampson's post,) unto the middeste of wch pynne
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 161
there is a long rope fastenede that oomeihe downe amonge the
people, so that when the offendore hathe made his Confession,
and hathe layde his neoke ouer the nethermoste blooke, every
man there present dothe eyther take holde of the rope, (or
puttethe foorthe his arme, so neere to the same as he can get,
in token yt he is willinge to see true iustioe executed, and
pnllinge oote the pynne in this manner, the head blocke wherin
the axe is fastenede dothe fall downe wh suche a violence, that »
if the necke of ye transgressoure were so bigge as that of a bull
yt shoulde be cute in sunder at a stroke, and roll from the
bodye, by an huge distaunce. If it be so yt the offendoure be
apprehended for an oxe or oxen, sheepe, kyne or horse, or eny
suche cattell : the selfe beaste or other of the same kinde, haue
the end of the rope tyed somwhere unto them so that they
drawe oute ye pinne wherby the offendore is executed. /And
thus muche of Halifax lawe, wch I set downe onlie to shewe
the custome of yt Country in this behalfe."
In the same handwriting, which is of a legal character, follow
some observations on the Laws of England, and a description
of titles of honour.
Mbbibaux. — What is the meaning of this word, as given in
Heywood's Diaries, vol. iii., p. 86. — "Its verily beleeved by
some that she dyed drunk, for she had drunk six meribauk
pots full of ale that day, June 18, 1664." J. 8.
[Merry Banks, a cold Posset. Bailey's Dictionary.]
Utortahnrrifr of WLzbtoaxtij anb Ronton.
EXTRACTED FROM " AlDRED's MANUSCRIPTS."
Will of Josias Wordsworth, of Wadworth, Yorks., Esq., dated
15 Feb., 1776, (being of sound disposing mind and memory)
directed payment of all his just debts and funeral expenses,
Mentions — Dear daughter Mary, wife of Charles Kent, Esq.,
dear daughter Anne, wife of Harry Verelst, Esq., sister • . .
Chauncy, wife of William Henry Chauncy, Esq., wife's brother,
the Rev. Arthur Robinson and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Algetor,
wife's sister Mary Robinson, servant Margaret Hopkins, Alice
Rose; appoints wife Executrix thereof. Witnesses — Simy
Batty, clerk to Mr.* Wordsworth, John Lambert, clerk to
Messrs. Newton and Venables, William Hammond, servant to
Mr. Wordsworth. Codicil thereto dated 10 Sept., 1779, devised
his farms, lands, and hereditaments, which he lately purchased,
situate in Aston in the County of York, from the Earl of
Holderness, with the appurtenances, unto Harry the eldest son
of his daughter Ann Verelst, in fee simple, subject to an estate
to the said Ann Verelst during the minority of her said son,
Y.K.Q. X
162 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
and to a charge thereon of £2000 in favour of the brothers and
sisters of his grandson Harry Verelst. The Testator devised
the closes, lands and hereditaments which he lately purchased
of Mrs. Algetor called Hanging Banks and Baysfield in
Sheffield, with the appurtenances, to his dear wife in fee simple.
Witnesses — Jane Sykes, William Hammond, George Broadrick.
Further Codicil dated 28 Nov., 1779, devise of Testator's farm,
closes, lands, and hereditaments at Hardwick in the County of
York, then in the occupation of Joseph Broadbent, unto his
dear wife Ann Wordsworth, in fee simple. Devises his estate
in the Isle of Thanet as therein mentioned and gives £500 to
each of his said two daughters Mary Kent and Ann Verelst.
Witnesses— Geo. Broadrick, William Hammond, John Holmes.
Wills and Codicils proved P. C. C, 28 Sept., 1780, by Mrs.
Wordsworth.
14 and 15 April, 1785. Indentures of Lease and Release, the
Lease made between Harry Verelst of Aston in the County of
York, Esq., of the one part and Robert Gosling, of London,
Esquire, William Henry Chauncy, of Edgcott, Northampton,
Esquire, and Rev. William Mason, of Aston aforesaid, Clerk,
of the other part, And the Release made between the same
persons as are parties to the said Lease, affecting all that the
Manor or Lordship or reputed Manor or Lordship of Aston
aforesaid, and all that the capital and other messuages, lands,
tenements and hereditaments of him the said Harry Verelst,
in Aston aforesaid, or in Aughton alias Aigton, Hardwick or
Hodwick, Co. York, or any of them and lately purchased of
Robert, late Earl of Holderness, and also all that moiety or
half part of the whole into two equal parts to be divided, of all
those the Manors, messuages, lands, woods, tenements, and
hereditaments, lying and being at Wadworth, Penistone, and
elsewhere in the County of York, with the appurtenances, and
late the estate of Josias Wordsworth, Esq., deceased. Me-
morial executed by the said Harry Verelst in the presence of
Christopher Alderson, of Tickhill, County York, clerk, and
William Ball, of Rotherham, gentleman, and registered 14
May, 1785, at Wakefield.
Yorkshire to wit. John Turner against Josias Wordsworth
for £97 2s., debt. Judgment signed the 11 Nov., 1765. Allowed
for costs 63s. Witness the hand of Edwd. Benton, Junr., for
Thomas Owens, Esq., Secondary of His Majesty's Court of
King's Bench. Registered 81 Jan., 1766, at Wakefield.
A Memorial of a Judgment in His Majesty's Court of King's
Bench at Westminster, of Trinity Term in the 84th year of the
reign of King George the 3rd, between Philip Perkins and
Jane his wife, Executors of the last Will and Testament of
Mary Griffith deceased, plaintiffs, and Sir Charles Kent, Bart.,
Executor of the last Will and Testament of Harry Verelst,
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 163
Esq., defendant in a plea of debt for '£6600. Judgment was
signed in the above cause the 8th August, 1794. John Clarke,
assistant to the Clerk of the Judgments, in the absence of
Robert Forster, Esq., Secondary. Registered 7 Sept., 1792, at
Wakefield.
Wadworth. Extract from the Inclosure Act. "And whereas
Josias Wordsworth, Esq., is Improprietor of the corn tithes
and patron of the Vicarage of Wadworth, within the Peculiar
Jurisdiction of Wadworth aforesaid."
Will of Arthur Robinson, of Kingston -upon-Hull, Clerk,
made and published the 24 Oct., 1792, whereby after payment
of all his just debts he gave and devised his messuage and
dwelling-house wherein he then dwelt, with the appurtenances,
in Postern Gate, Kingston aforesaid, and all his farms, lands,
tenements, and hereditaments in Sutton in Holderness, and all
other his real estate with the appurtenances, unto his wife
Elizabeth Robinson for life, and after her decease unto his
Mends Joseph Sykes of West Ella, Kingston-upon-Hull, Esq.,
the Bev. John Bourne of the Charter House, same town, Clerk,
and William Travis of same town, Merchant, their heirs and
assignees, upon trust for sale and pay the proceeds thereof as
to one moiety to Testator's sister, Ann Wordsworth, absolutely,
and the other moiety to Testator's other sister Mary Robinson,
absolutely. The Testator gave to his said wife the use of his
plate for life, and after her decease, equally between his said
sister Mary Robinson and his two nieces — Dame Mary Kent
and Ann Verelst. Mentions — sister Mrs. Agnes Thompson, of
Brompton Row, Knightsbridge, Miss Mary Agnes Lillington,
respected Mend the Rev. Mr. Mason of Ashton, York, Clerk.
Witnesses — Josiah Prickett, Attorney at Law, of Hull, Nath.
Holmes, Junr., his Clerk, Joseph Cawthron, servant to the said
Arthur Robinson. Proved Prerogative Court of York.
Original Affidavit of Mrs. Yerelst.
Verbatim et literatim.
" Wordsworth Pedigree." '
Josias Wordsworth =p Sarah
of Water Hall, Esq.
Died after 1706
A | 1st wife | B 2nd wife
John Wordsworth Ruth =pElias Wordsworth=7=Ann Milner
of Burton Grange, Baynes of Sheffield, born
Esq., born 8 Feb. in 1668, died
1657, died about about 1724
1709
164
YOBKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
c I
Josias Wordsworth
afterwards of Lon-
don, Esq., born 16
April, 1691, died
in 174!
I
I D
Samuel Wordsworth
of London, Esq.,
born in Nov., 1701
died sans issue in
1774
Anne Wordsworth
born July 30, 1717
married Peter
Christopher Algetor
died sans issue
about 1794
Josias Wordsworth =p Ann Robinson
the yor of Wadworth, Esq.
died in June, 1780, des-
cribed in his father's will
as his eldest son
died in Nov., 1814,
Vide Probate
buried at Wadworth
Mary Ann
married Sir Charles married Henry
Kent, Bart., died in Verelst, Esq.,
Sept., 1817, buried and now living
at Wadworth
Ann Verelst, of Holywell in the County of Hants, widow,
maketh oath and saith that the Josias Wordsworth the younger,
of Wadworth in the County of York, Esquire, in the foregoing
pedigree last named and therein stated to have died in June,
1780, was this deponent's father and the late husband of Ann
Wordsworth, widow, this deponent's mother, to whom he
devised in fee his freehold estate, situate in Dunster Court and
in Mincing Lane and Mark Lane in the city of London, and
saith that the 6aid Josias Wordsworth was the eldest son and
heir at law of Josias Wordsworth of London, Esquire, and the
eldest grandson and heir of John Wordsworth of Barton
Grange, Esquire, and the great grandson and heir of Josias
Wordsworth, of Water Hall, Esquire, all severally named in
the above pedigree, and saith that the said Josias Wordsworth
the younger was the cousin and heir at law of Samuel Words-
worth of London, Esquire, and of his sister Anne Wordsworth
afterwards Anne Algetor, widow, in the said pedigree named,
who were the children of Elias Wordsworth a younger son of
the said Josias Wordsworth of Water Hall, Esq., first named,
which said Samuel Wordsworth and Anne Algetor, widow, both
died without issue. Viz. the said Samuel Wordsworth in the
year 1774, and the said Anne Alegtor about the year 1794 :
(signed) " Ann Verelst." Sworn at the Public Office, South-
ampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, this 19th day of
July, 1818, before me (signed) " Jas. Stopler."
Parish Church, Penis tone. York. Baptisms.
A. Johannes filius Josice Wordsworth natus Febr. 8 et
baptizatus fuit Dartoni© Febr. 16, 1657*
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 165
B. Elias filius Josi® Wordsworth Jan. 24, 1668.
C. JosiaB filius Johis Wordsworth de Barton Grange, natus
Apri. 3, bapt. May 19, 1691.
Parish Church, Sheffield.
D. Baptizati 1701, mense Novemb. Samuel filius Eli®
Wordsworth Mercer de ead.
E. Anne daugr. of Elias Wordsworth, Mercer, born July
30, bapt. September, 1717.
F. Will of Josias Wordsworth late of the parish of Saint
Dunstan in East London, Esquire, dated March, 1748, devised
all his Beal Estate to his wife Mary Wordsworth for life,
mentions eldest son Josias Wordsworth. Proved P. C. C. 26
Jany., 1749.
Bill of Complaint filed in Chancery in the Suit of Calcraft v.
Cook in Vice Chancellor Stuart's Court. Beoites Indentures
of Lease and Belease dated respty. 29 and 80 Jany., 1812,
between Ann Wordsworth of the 1st part, Dame Mary Kent,
Widow, of the 2nd part, and Sir Charles Egleton Kent, Bart.,
of the 8rd part. Will of Ann Wordsworth dated 8th July, 1809,
Codicil thereto dated 17 Aug., 1810. Her death on 19 Nov.,
1814, and proof of Will and Codicil on 2 June, 1815, in the
proper Ecclesiastical Court. Further recitals (1) Indenture
dated 81 May, 1815, between Dame Mary Kent of the one part
and Sir Charles Egleton Kent of the other part. (2) Death of
Dame Mary Kent in September, 1817, leaving three children
only, Dame Mary Thorold, wife of Sir John Hayford Thorold,
Bart., Louisa Elizabeth, wife of John Litchford, Esq., and
Sarah Ann, wife of Leonard Walbanke Childers, Esq. (8)
Death of Dame Mary Thorold in month of Dec, 1829, in life-
time of husband leaving Sir John Charles Thorold, Bart., her
only son and heir at law and sole next of kin her surviving.
(4) Indenture dated 14 June, 1848, between John Litchford
and Louisa his wife, of the one part, and the Plaintiffs to this
Suit of the other part. (5) Death of Leonard Walbanke Childers
many years ago leaving his wife him surviving, (6) Will of
Sir Charles Egleton Kent dated 25 July, 1818, and Codicil
thereto dated 27 Aug., 1880, his death on 5 Dec, 1884, and
proof in proper Ecclesiastical Court. (7) An Order of his
Honor Vice Chancellor Sir John Stuart in " the matter of the
mortgaged and trust estates of Ann Wordsworth of Wadworth,
widow, deceased, and in the mattaj of the Trustee Act, 1850,"
dated 21 Dec, 1852. The action was for an Injunction and
damages, costs and expenses.
The Manor of Dorking, Surrey. Court Baron of the Hon*
Charles Howard and Abraham Eucker, Esq., Lords of the
Manor, holden Friday 28rd October, 1747, by Thomas Harris,
Gentleman, Steward, there it is enrolled thus — That at that
Court the 2nd proclamation was made for the heir or heirs of
166 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Lambert Ludlow, late of Bansted, Surrey, Esq., deceased,
claiming title to All thoae Copyhold Estates therein particularly
specified within this Manor to come and take the same out of
the Lords of this Manor. And that at that Court Josias
Wordsworth of London, Esq., and Mary his wife, Joshua Smith
of Battersea, Surrey, Esq., and Anne his wife, and Elizabeth
Hawkins the widow and relict of Philip Hawkins, Esq., deceased
(which said Mary, Anne, and Elizabeth were the sisters and
coheiresses of the said Lambert Ludlow) by Bichard Glover
their next friend came and humbly prayed that they the said
Mary, Anne and Elizabeth might be admitted tenants of the
Lords of this Manor to the said Copyholds with their appur-
tenances. And the Lords by their Stewards granted them and
their heirs for ever admission as coparceners subject to the
fines, rents, heriots and services.
[This proves that Josias Wordsworth of London, Esq., mar-
ried Mary Ludlow, although not shown in Affidavit of Mrs.
Verelst.]
Jolliffe Indenture of Bargain and Sale dated 23 May, 1768,
and between John Jolliffe of Petersfield, in the County
Baven of Southampton, Esquire, and William Jolliffe of
(7) same place, Esquire, eldest son of the said John
Jolliffe of the one part and Robert Baven of the
Liberty of the Bolls, Middlesex, Gentleman, of the other part.
Whereby (interalia) All that Messuage or Tenement with the
appurtenances situate in Ewell, Surrey, abutting on the road
leading from Ewell to Bansted on the south-west part, on Ox
Lane on the north-east part and on Ewell Common Field on
the south-east part is stated in the tenure of Mary Wordsworth,
widow. [The above, formerly Mary Ludlow.]
(Extracts from these MSS to be continued.)
ACKWOBTH BEGISTEBS.— 1586-1600.
by the rev. j. l. saywell, f.b.h.s.
Mabbiages, 1586.
Thomas Bishworth and Margery Austwicke, married Oct 9.
Thomas Folds and Anne Howet, October 16.
Willm Waringe and Isabell Foster, Febry. 27.
[No deaths recorded.]
Baptisms, 1587.
Anne Grenfelde, baptised Julie
16.
Willm Jackson, Julie 20.
Anne Whiticars, August 20,
Elizabethe Azacher(?) Septemb.
80.
Bichard Ashe, October 20.
Anne Bawson, Novemb. 27.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
167
Elizabethe Helilaye, Septemb.
21.
Alis Huntingden, Septemb. 25.
Willm Biggliskirke, Decemb. 8.
Elizabethe Horncastle, Janua-
riel3.
Henrye Wilson, Februarie 18.
Marbiages.
Richard Lyard and Elizabethe married October 29.
. John Austwicke and Katheryne Pickeringe, Novemb. 6.
Bic Breman and Ursula Rawlin, Maye 28.
Edward Swallowe and Elizab. Shillito, Jannarie 80.
Willm Wood and Elizabethe ,
Robt. Usher Rector presented to ye Living by Q. Eliz. Feb.
1588. How long he held this Living is uncertain, but he
resigned it for the Living of Bulmor, & was succeeded by Will
Lambe who was presented by Q. Eliz. also.*
[No burials recorded.]
Baptisms, 1588.
George Howet, baptised Marche
28.
Willm Prince, Marche 29.
George Thackera, Aprill 10.
Anne Hawet, May 8.
Willm Aspiner, August 20.
George Shillito, August 25.
Richard Grene, Septemb. 21
Richard Bramham, Septemb. 22
Elizabeth Corker, Decemb. 11.
Henrye Austwicke, Decemb. 18.
John Whiticars, Januarie 15.
Richard Folds, Februarie 1.
Mary Hawksworth, Februarie
24.
Richard Adamson, Marche 12.
Emmat Bidiall, Marche 21.
Willm Dobson, Marche 24.
Makbiages.
Thomas Smithe and Alis Burton, married June 28.
Willm Simson and Kathyn Brigs, Julie 28.
Edward Heaton and Isabell Emson, August 11.
Edward Eshe and Alis Beoket, Janua 11.
Jo. Bidiall and Agnes Folds, Janua 21.
Bubialls.
Elizabethe Harde, buried Aprill
7.
Jane Dodgson, Aprill 16.
Robert Hall, Maye 28.
Margret Hall, Maye 27.
Jennet Heaton, June 1.
John Scholaye, June 11.
Leonard Wetherhead, June 28
Anne Scholayn, Julie 15.
Robert Watson, Septemb. 8.
Uxor* Farrand, Septemb. 12.
Ellin Ashe, Septemb. 24.
Esabell Mallerye, Septemb. 24.
George Hawet, Septemb. 29.
Richard Ashe, Ootober 12.
Richard Bramam, October 12.
Thomas Grene, October 26.
Francis Crawshaye,Novemb.26.
Mary Shaye, Decemb. 24.
Gilbert Shawe, Januarie 6.
Margret Folds, Januarie 81.
Jennet Barker, Februarie 7.
Richard Folds, Marche 18.
• Tone makes Robt. Usher's successor to be " Joh Wilson (resigned for
the Rectory of Bnlmer)," Will Lambe being inducted " 16 Jan 1594."
• " Uxor" of course means "the wife of ," but it is possible it may
btve been used in the same way as " Dame " in later times.
168
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Anne Bower, baptised Aprill 18
George Padget, Aprill 20.
Margret Padget, Aprill 20.
Dennys Lake, June 1.
Bic. & Tho. Halilaye, June 18.
Willm Bidiall, June 14.
John Bramham, August 18.
Henrye Bushell, August 24.
Richard Aspiner, August 24.
Baptisms, 1589.
Willm Heaton, Septemb. 7.
Willm Simeon, Septemb. 8.
Betteris Eshe, Septemb. 26.
Jane Eshe, Septemb. 80.
George Swallowe, Novemb. 12.
Boger Grenfeld, Januarie 11.
Anne Thacker, Januarie 18.
Francis Waringe, Januarie 18.
Anne Howet, Marche 4.
Mabkiaoks.
Thomas Shawe and Jane Robinson, married Septemb.
Tho. Stillinge and Alis Binglaye, Decemb. 29.
Mathewe Dodgson and Anna Peele, Januarie 20.
Willm Smithe and Jane Sandson, Januarie 8.
Richard Banold and Margret Mason, Januarie 9.
Burialls.
14.
Jennet Horncastle, buried
Aprill 4.
Margret Folds, Maye 28.
Willm Austwicke, Senr.,
Maye
Marye Paslaye, June 4.
Agnes Mason, June 8.
Bic. & Tho. Halilaye, June 16.
Isabell Pickeringe, June 24.
Grace Robinson, Julie 1.
Baptisms,
Bichard Shawe, baptised Maye
5.
Mary Benold, baptysed Maye 10
Francis Corker, Maye 81
Hen. & Mary Horncastle, June
20.
Alis Bigliskirke, October 7
John Mallerye October 18,
Isabell Rawson, Julie 29.
Willm Heaton, October 28.
Agnes Redman, Novemb. 8.
Anne Becket, Novemb. 19.
Alexander Johnson, Januarie
Willm Ridiall, Januarie 26.
John Ashe, Februarie 12.
Robert Jackson, Marche 15.
1590.
William Dodgson, Novemb. 22.
Thomas Gawood, Decemb. 6.
Anne A damson, Decemb. 8.
Elizabethe Ward, Februarie 6.
Alice Dodgson, Februa 7.
Willm Scholaye, Februa 14.
John Norton, Marche 21.
Mabriaoe8.
Jo. Munket and Jane Brigs, married Aprill 26.
Rob. Midleton and Jane Jarcks, June 24.
Rich. Pickeringe and Alis Wager, August 6.
Rob. Brodhead and Sibbell Watts, August 28.
George Isat and Emmat Eliot, Novemb. 16.
Burialls.
/ Maria Benold, buried June 6.
Edward Austwicke, Julie 25.
Bichard Gorbrige, August 6.
Anne Prince, August 9.
Mary Foores, Novemb. 8.
Jennet Saunder, Decemb. 11.
Mathewe Dodgson, Decemb. 27
Lawrence Whiticars, Januarie 1
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
John Roods, August 80.
Margret Walker, Septemb. 18.
John Whythead, Septemb. 19.
Lionell Wormall, Octob. 8.
Christopher Bobinson, Ootob.14
John Mallerye, Octob. 81.
Anne Morlaye, Novemb. 8.
Bapptisms,
Willm Simson, Januarie 1.
Rowland Scryvyner, Febrnarie
21.
Agnes Horner, Marche 14.
Margret Burton, Marche 21.
Willm Bushell, Marche 24.
1591.
Robert Hawksworthe, baptysed
Aprill 15.
John Wilson, Aprill 20.
Margerye Folds, Aprill 22.
Alis Sunderland, Aprill 25.
Ursulaye Fernlaye, Julie 21
John Brears, August 7.
Jane Padget, Novemb. 18.
Jane Wilkinson, Novemb. 2G
Annes Grene, Februa 18.
Marye Simson, Februa 21.
Anne Cawood, Marche 24.
Marriages.
Francis Noble and Anne Roberts, married Aprill 20.
Leonard Brooke and Eathe. Maser, Novemb. 81.
Richard Fricklaye and Margret Ellis, Decemb. 7.
Witworth Wilkinson and Ann Austwicke, Januarie 24.
Bubialls.
Margret Horncastle, buried
Aprill 2.
Willm Bigliskirke, Aprill 22.
Alis Dodgson, Maye 2.
Isabell Fricklaye, Maye 5.
Margret Bigliskirke, Maye 29.
John Aspiner, June 24.
Marye Manser, August 8.
John Renold, August 25.
Thomas Howet, Septemb. 9.
Allan Wyse, Septemb. 11.
Richard Howet, Septemb. 19.
Agnes Tiplin, October 24.
Margaret Scholaye, Novemb. 7.
Uxor Scryvyner, Novemb. 12.
Anne Howet, Novemb. 16.
Willm Burton, Novemb. 17.
Sibbell Waun and Eli Smythe,
buried Decemb. 6.
Margret Jackson, Januarie 5.
George Heaton, Janua. 28.
Willm Corker, Februa 18.
Isabell Huntingden, Februa 27*
Jane Johnson, Marche 4.
Mary Whiticars, baptysed
Marche 26.
Elizabeth Renold, Marche 28.
Alis Bigliskyrke, Marche 28.
Mary Mallerye, Marche 80.
Thomas Dodgson, June 25.
Anne Midleton, Julie 29.
George Norton, August 24.
Bapty8HS, 1592.
Robert Heaton, Novemb. 10.
John Parker, Januarie 7.
Willm Grenfeld, Februarie 2.
Alis Ridiall, Februarie 4.
Jane Wilkinson, Februarie 8.
Robt. Fearnlaye, Februarie 24*
Isabell Tailior, Marche 2.
Henrye Simson, Marche 16.
Marriages.
Thomas Mallinson and Emot* Brathawat, married June 7.
Bobt. Glyfe and Anne Nelson, Auguste 6.
Richard Folds and Isabell Mason, Novemb. 20.
* This name is spelt Emot, Ernst, Emmat, and Emmet in various places,
ud it equivalent to the modern " Emma."
170
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
BUBIALLS.
Marye Simson, buried Aprill 5.
Anne Brigs, Maye 14.
Ellin , June 6.
Marye Austwicke, Julie 12.
Willm Dobson, Julie 29.
Elizabethe Adamson, August 11
Anne Midleton, August 14.
Anne Prince, August 21.
Jane Scholaye, Septemb. 16.
Baptysms,
Willm Bcholaye, Novemb. 11.
Eatheryne Norton, Novemb. 28
Edward Heaton, Decemb. 12.
Agnes Wormall, Decemb. 16.
John , Januarie 28.
Alice Blackburne, Februarie 10
Willm Hobson, Februarie 22.
Margret Padget, Marcbe 2.
1598.
Anne Drowrye, baptysed Aprill
25.
Elizabethe Thacker, June 17
Alis Cawood, Julie 29.
Isabell Folds, Septemb. 16.
JennetBlackburne, Septemb. 21
Robert Ward, October 7.
Willm Hawksworth, October 14
Richard Norton, Novemb. 17.
Bubials.
Robert Bidiall, buried Marche 25
Margaret Redman, Marche 26
Isabell Taliour, Marche 30.
Alis Bigliskirke, Aprill 4.
Mary Eshe, Aprill 25.
Edmund Brigs, Aprill 21.
Willm Grenfeld, Aprill 29.
Isabell Eshe, Maye 6.
Jo. Bell and Anne Dodgson,
Maye 9.
Jennet Bigliskirke, June 7.
Margaret Renold, Julie 14.
Anne Cawood, Julie 20.
John Jinkinson, August 19.
Edward Bushell, August 24.
Richard Fricklaye, Septemb. 27
Isabell Folds, Septemb. 80.
Alice Robinson, October 8.
Margret Bryers, Novemb. 25.
Marye Ward's 2 children,
Decemb. 2.
John Ridiall, Decemb. 9.
Edward Eshe, Decemb. 9.
John Turker, Decemb. 25.
Elizabethe Aspiner, Januarie 80
Willm Lamb, Rectr, presented to this Living by Queen Eliz.
in Januarie, 1594.*
Baptisms, 1594.
Robert Bushell, baptysed Aprill
14.
Tho. and Jennet Bigliskirke,
Aprill 14.
Thomas Norton, Maye 1.
Jane Taliour, Maye 16.
Margerye Williamson, June 15.
Nathaniel Wilson, Julie 28.
Robt. Cawood, August 21.
Eliz. Wilkinson, August 21.
Batholomewe Heather, August
25.
Marye Bentlaye, Septemb. 29.
Elizabethe Adamson, Decemb. 2
Stepen Folds, Decemb. 25.
Timothye Parker, Januarie 12.
Willm Briers and Margret Big-
liskirke, Januarie 12.
Robert Norton, Februarie 9.
Willm Wilkinson, Marche 28.
* There is no mention of the induction of Willm Lamb's predecessor Joh.
Wilson.
YOBKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
171
Bobert Wormall, buried Maye 12
Arthur Feamlaye, Maye 14
John Eshe, Januarie 19.
Bubiallb.
Willm Hawksworthe, Marohe 7.
John Huntingdon, Junr.y
Marche 12.
Baptisms, 1595.
Alis Drowiy, baptysed Aprill 6.
Jane Whyticars, Aprill 28.
Thomas Thacker, Maye 4.
George Austwicke, Maye 11,
Willm Dodgson, June 18.
George Chauntrye, Maye 11
Francis Simson, Maye 11.
Willm Austwicke, Pebrua 18.
Ellin Alderslaye, Aprill 18.
Stephen Folds, June 6.
Jennet Dodgson, Auguste 81.
Willm Kawson, Septemb. 12.
Jo. Broadlaye and Willm Bent-
laye, October 15.
[No Marriages or Burials recorded in 1595.]
Bapttsms, 1596.
Francis Wilkinson, baptysed
Maye 1.
John Hawksworthe, Maye 10,
Thomas Parke, Maye 20.
Anne Howet, October 80.
Alis Glyfe, Septemb. 80.
Sibbel Alderslaye, August 18.
Franncisca Folds, Novemb. 21.
George Kaye, Januarie 1.
Hughe Bushell, Januarie 2.
Margrett Wills, Januarie 10.
Marye Wrilliamson, Februarie 2
Bobert Wills, buried Julie 28
John Shawe, October 28.
Uxor Brooke, Septemb. 2.
Thomas Huntingden, Januarie
10.
BURIALLS.
Uxor Boyds, Januarie 20.
Marye Williamson, Februarie 8
Marye More, Marche 10.
Bapttsms, 1597.
Willm Blackburne, baptysed
Marche 29.
Elizabethe Smythe, Aprill 14.
Anne Gla(y)ton, Aprill 80.
Henrye Cawood, Maye 26.
Thomas Austwicke, Julie 18.
Marye Bentlaye, October 2.
Marye Cawood, Septemb. 10.
Henrye Wilkinson, Septemb. 8.
Willm Lambe, October 9.
Susan Chauntrye, Januarie 20.
Grace Nelson, Januarie 25.
George Shilito, Marche 5.
Anne Williamson, Marche 12.
Anne Baytman, Marche 12.
Marriages.
Thomas Cawood and Jane Howet, married June 12.
Bo. Norton and Eliz. Stillings, Octob. 9.
Willm Jackson and Ellin Bobinson, Decemb. 27.
Bob. Hugh and Anne Brigs, Decemb. 5.
Burialls.
George Izat, buried Aprill 8.
Anne Pyke (?) Aprill 6.
Hugh Bushell, Aprill 8.
Marye Austwicke, June 6.
Uxor Jackson, June 9.
Uxor Clyfe, Julie 14.
Willm Wryght, Maye 28.
Henrye Cawood, August 18.
Henrye Smythe, Marohe 21.
172 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Marriages, 1598.
Thomas Gott and Jane Nut, married Januarie 8.
John Garnar and Emat Izat, Februarie 12.
Thomas Stagg and Alis Bedforthe, Februarie 12.
Robt. Paslaye and Anne Shan, August 10.
Lionell Prince and Isabell Norton, Novemb. 12.
John Shillito and Jane Norton, Deoemb. 8.
Baptysmb.
Willm Norton, fil Bobt., bap
tysed Maye 21.
Thomas Clyfe, Septemb. 8.
Jervas Bigliskirke, Septemb. 17
Margret Parkinson, Septemb.17
Marye Bigliskirke, October 1.
Henrye Warde, October 29.
Isabel Dodgson, October 29.
Bubialls.
Anne Austwicke, Novemb. 12.
Margret Hugh, Novemb. 24.
Ann Aspiner, Decemb. 28.
Alis TaUour, Januar. 6.
Alis Paslaye, Januar. 7.
Mathias Becket, Februar. 24.
Alis Ho wet, Marche 11.
Uxor Smythe, Deoemb. 11.
Anthonye Grenfeld, Januae. 10
Thomas Austwicke, buried
Novemb. 28.
Uxor Howet, Decemb. 15.
Bafttbms, 1599.
Jana Cawood filia Thoma, baptysed Aprill 1.
Jana Norton filia Jacobi, Aprill 7.
Anna Wilkinson filia wont work* Wilkinson, Aprill 27<
Jenneta Lee filia Bichardi Lee, Maye 1.
Bichardus Simson filius William, Maye 18.
[Erased] June 24.
Anna Wilkinson filia Bichardi, July 8.
Henricus Perke filius Francisci, July 15.
Thomas Wilson filius Alice , Marche 2.
Samuell Lambe, August 5.
John Smythes filius Jacobi, Septemb. 8.
Henricus Glyfe filius Boberti, October 6.
Elizabethe Thomson, Novemb. 18.
Margrett Bushell, Janua. 1.
Joame Kaye, Januarie 20.
Elizabethe Williamson, Februarie 8.
Edward Bentley, Februarie 17.
Henry Austwicke filius , Marchii 2.
Alis Prince, Marche 16.
Elizabethe Shillitowe, Marche 16.
Bubialls.
Margarett Scorer, buried Maye
27.
Anna Wilkinson filia wont work
Jan. 17.
Bobert Austwicke, October 21.
Jennet Wood, Marche 24.
• " Wont work," an allot, by which the mother of the child was commonly
known.— ^J.Xj.S.
YOBKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 17$
Marbiages.
Jaeobu8 Smythes and Emmet Huntingdon, married June 17.
Thomas Broadlaye and Frances Norton, October 21.
Francis Sanderson and Isabell Roper, October 21.
Willm Willyson and Mary Walton, Novemb. 11.
Henrye Huntingden and Anne Smithson, Jany. 22.
J. L. Saywell, F.R.H.S., &c.
Grassinoton Schismatics. — " The Prophetic Messenger,"
{1880) announces for December, 1828; " A new set of religion-
ists sprung up at Grassington in Graven, styling themselves
Nazarene Cariates. The chief tenet of this sect is, that all
religious assemblies are unlawful except they are held in barnsr
alleging that our Lord was born in one ! " Is anything further
known of them ?
WBiftxt tofls foxs 2U>b*g?
It is not often a matter in dispute as to the Site of an abbey
for the simple reason (we suppose) that there are very few*
instances in which sufficient relics do not remain upon the spot
to point indubitably to the place where it stood. In the case
of Fors however the monks were only settled four or five years,
and as the climate was so bleak and the ground so unproduc-
tive, doubtless a great part of their time would be taken up in
conveying food and the necessaries of life to their new abode.
Therefore in that limited period it is not likely that they would
have anything but buildings of the rudest construction, certainly
nothing of any architectural pretensions would be reared, which
accounts for the fact that no fluted columns or groined arches
remain (to prove the spot where Peter and his monks squatted
during the short period in which they are said to have under-
gone such great privations,) as is the case with many of our
Yorkshire religious houses which flourished for a longer time
and in a more genial climate than that of Fors. It may seem
somewhat presumptuous on my part after nearly all the re-
cognised authorities in topography and local history have
assigned it to our place, that I should oppose my humble
opinion to their great learning and experience on this question.
However whether I am right or wrong, if I should succeed in
eliciting information which will tend to settle the point my
object will have been gained. The matter in dispute is as to
whether the original foundation (i.e. scheme) of the hair- brained
JEsculapian Ecclesiastic — Peter — transferred to Jervaulx, was
really on Low or on High Abbotside, (two townships running
for about 15 miles along the north bank of the Yore in Wens-
leydale). Nearly all County topographers and local historians
have assigned its Site to the former township. Oral traditions
174 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
on the other hand, handed down we suppose for generations
presumably from the times of Peter, point in favour of the
Latter. Putting aside both written records and unwritten tradi-
tions there appear to be plausible grounds however for con-
tending that the madcap scheme of the Savignian monk had
its locus standi at the latter named place. The two townships
of High and Low Abbotside doubtless received their names from
the fact of an abbey having existed there ; but so far the name
would indicate an equal claim in favour of both as having
contained the site of the Abbey. Additional strength however
is given to the validity of local traditions as opposed to topo-
graphical writers, when we consider that in High Abbotside
there is a wild barren glen called Fors dale which is strongly
confirmatory (etymologically) of the belief locally entertained
that Peter-de-Qunciano's Abbey of Fors was not at Grainge in
Low Abbotside but at Fors-dale in High Abbotside, the drainage
of which latter forms the romantic and increasingly attractive
falls known as Hardrow Bear fors, which in all probability gave
its name to the valley (i.e. JFor*-dale). If it be true as stated
in old documents, that when the monks came to Fors their
hearts sank within them on account of the land being so stony
and barren, the climate bleak, and the inhabitants inhospitable,
so that after five years stay they were nearly starved to death ;
this account certainly goes far to prove that the cold, cheerless
and sterile valley of Forsdale and not the snug, sheltered and
fertile domain of Dale Grainge, the manor or estate of the late
Lord Wensleydale (Baron Parke), was the site of Fors Abbey.
In support of this view, Lambert says— Sequel to Wensleydale,
a Poem, published in 1819. —
" Stay, stay my roving muse, no farther go,
But haste thee back into the vale below,
And on thy way at ancient Forsdale call ;
Here superstition rear'd the abbey wall
Its lofty walls are levelTd to the ground
No more is heard the solemn organ's sound ;
Where once the glimm'ring taper cast its rays,
We now perchance behold the glow worm's blaze."
I am reminded however that old records refer to it as " Fors
near Askrigg " from which place Grainge is but one mile distant
while Forsdale is six or seven miles away. This objection
however to the claims of the latter is easily disposed of when
we consider that no village higher up the dale than Askrigg is
mentioned in Doomsday Survey, consequently we may reason-
ably infer that no other place existed and that west of this the
dale was either unfrequented wood or wild mountain heath,
excepting where the monks had made a clearance — to use a
modern colonial expression — in which case Askrigg would still
YOBKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 175
be the nearest centre of population. In Longstaffe's " Rioh-
mondshire " we read (p. 69) : In the reign of Stephen, Peter de
Quincy, a Chirurgical Monk of Savigny, frequented the Earl of
Richmond's Court and being accompanied by other brethren
prevailed on Akar Fitz Bardolph to bestow on them the pro-
perty at Fors, high up Wensleydale ; which will not apply with
the same force to the Grainge site as the other. It must be
remembered that the authors who have decided upon Grainge
as the "local habitation" were not local men and were not
conversant with prevailing traditions of the neighbourhood,
they were simply seeking a site which they conceived must be
near to Askrigg and they pitched upon what they thought a
likely place regardless of the topographical etymology or tra-
ditional lore of the district. I submit then all things considered,
the etymology of the term, the circumstances of soil and climate
and the voice of tradition ail appear to me to point almost
irresistibly to the conclusion that Fors Abbey was at Fors dale
and not at Grainge as stated by Mr. Barker, Hardcastle and a
host of other itinerant writers who have followed them.
John Routh, Hawks.
#taiutsrrtpis of Br. Icljtt ^all, of Hipping.
At the request of Mr. J. Horsfall Turner, I have undertaken
to give an account of certain volumes chiefly in the handwriting
of my ancestor John Hall, of Kipping House, near Thornton
in Bradford dale, who died in the year 1709. We see him figure
in the ( Autobiography of Joseph Lister,'* and in Oliver Hey-
wood's Diaries,! as a practical physician, (whether licensed or
or not, is a doubtful point) and a chief member of the infant
Independent Church at Kipping which met in a building of his
own adjoining his house.! Both his house and the building
above mentioned are still to be seen by a visitor to Thornton.
The latter bears the date 1669 so that it was ready for use
when at the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672, Dr. Hall
applied for a license. One of the manuscript books indicates
Dr. Hall's claim to have studied medicine. It is a work com-
piled by him in the year 1661, called 'A compendium and
treasury of medicine and chirurgery,' Ac. It remains ready
*p.54. f n. pp. 70, 109, 114. IV. 196, 224, 259, Ac.
t From the Northowram Register Ac.
Under ' Applications for licenses under Declaration of Indulgences 1672/
-John Hall, Bradford."
Under " Meeting Houses registered at Wetherby Sessions, Jan., 1669."
"Wee shall {God willing) assemble and meet at Kipping house in
Thornton in Bradfordale, and at Jonas Dean's House in Mixenden in ye
parish of Halltfax, Matthew Smith, Jno Hall, Joseph Lister, Jonas Deane,.
Mb Hanson, John Berry."
176 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
for the press, bat it does not appear that it has been printed.
Dr. Hall died in London on 6th June, 1709, at the age of 78,
and was buried in Thornton churchyard, olose to the south
wall of the now ruinous Thornton Chapel. His gravestone
boldly and deeply out still bears the inscription — ( Hie etiam
deponitur corpus Johannis Hall de Kipping medici qui in
Christ obdormivit'; the date has perished. He was buried with
his son Zelophehad* who predeceased him having been born
April 10th, 1665, and having died April 18th, 1676, as appears
from the same stone. In allusion to him a motto has been
out in a border round the stone, of which I make out the
words — ' Like Jonah's gourd earth's best things be soon . • »
soon ripe ?
On Dr. Hall's death Kipping passed to his grandson Dr.
Joshua Firth, t son of Dr. Hall's only surviving child Mary and
John Firthj of Wheatley, (who had died in 1704).
The MS. Books with wnich I am now dealing form seven
volumes bound in leather; of which five contain chiefly sermons
in Dr. Hall's handwriting apparently taken down as he heard
them delivered at Kipping and elsewhere, the sixth is the
medical work mentioned above, and the seventh is a book of
accounts and prescriptions in the handwriting of Dr. Joshua
Firth and covering the period 1728-1788.
At present I confine myself to the volumes of sermons and
to the light they throw on the religious history of the Bradford
district in the period before and after the Revolution of 1688.
The volumes are endorsed Quarto 8, Quarto 5, Quarto 6,
Octavo 1, Octavo 8, containing respectively 660, 586, 478, 670
and 224 pages. I regret to say that I have no trace of the
other volumes of the two series, though no doubt they existed.
The number of sermons in the five volumes is 842. I add
the names of the preachers§ with the number of sermons by
each.
* Zelophehad Hall is no doubt the hero of the anecdote in Heywood'a
Diaries, Vol. II. p. 240.
t Joshua Firth appears in Heywood's Diaries as already practising and
living with Dr. Hall from 1700. Vol. IV., 169, 219, 287.
J For John Firth, see Heywood's Diaries, II. 88, (Jan. 23, 78), 121, 144.
$ With this list compare Calamy passim. Also the account of the Kipping
Church in Joseph Lister's Autobiography, p. 52.
"After the Black Bartholomew Act was passed — when preaching and
praying were such crimes in England as to incur great fines and imprison-
ments, we had several houses where we met as that at Kipping, and John
Berry's, and our house, and sometimes at Horton. We had Mr. Byther one
year, and then he had a call to London ; sometimes Mr. Root, sen. ; Mr.
Boot, jnn. ; Mr. Ness ; Mr. Manden ; Mr. Coats ; Mr. Bailey, and others ;
and at last we got a man called Mr. Whitehnrst and he heoame our pastor.
After some years a difference fell out betwixt him and several of the Church
members, and they withdrew from him and I was one of those that did so.
And about two years afterwards we heard of one Mr. Smith, a young man
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 177
Mr. Accepted Lister, 184, (1699-1709.) Mr. Matthew Smith,
(«) 115, (1688-1708). Mr. Firth, of Mansfield, (b) 47, (1681 ~
97). Mr. Ryther, (c) 7, (about 1668). Mr. Bayley, (167M699,)
and Mr. Stopforth, of Pick worth, (a conformist,) (1678-9.) 8,
Mr. Gamaliel Marsden, (1662.) Mr. Elkanah Wales, (d) (1649,)
and Mr. Whitaker, (*) (1701-9.) 2, Mr. Jeremiah Marsden,
(1662.) Mr. Ness. (/.) Mr. Heywood, (1700.) Mr. Collier,
(1632 or 8.) Mr. Noble, (1700.) Mr. Sraallwood, (1662,) and
Mr. Bristoe, (1649.) Mr. Robertson, (1654.) Mr. Dawson,
(1658.) Mr. Jolly, (//) (1666.) Mr. Whitehurst, (h) (1677.)
These sermons are in Dr. Hall's hand-writing, and the
names of most of the preachers will be familiar to students of
Oliver Heywood or Galamy. The following sermons which fill
vacant pages in Dr. Hall's books, are in the hapd* writing of
hi9 great-grandson, John Firth, and belong to a later gener-
ation. Mr. Hulme, 8, (1740-4.) Mr. Macao,. (1748.) Mr.
Doddridge, (1785.) Mr. Samuel Price, Mr. D. Jenings, Mr.
Dan. Neal, Mr. Uffett,.[Huthwaite] of Idle, (1744,) 1.
Having thus summarised, I must proceed a Jittje closer into
detail. And first I must explain that Dr. HalJ had a system
of cypher or short-hand, and in the times of persecution it was
his habit to use this cipher for entering the time and place at
which each sermon was preached. Often too, (rusting to the
security thus afforded, he added to these memoranda some
notes on current events. Later on in his life wfaen the danger
had passed, he transcribed part of these cipher passages, thus
giving us a clue to his system. I have not yet had time to
decipher the passages left unexplained, but as Dr. Hall's own
transcriptions are full of interest, I propose in the case of two
of the volumes to give the headings just as they stand.
that lived with his father at York, and a man of tine parts, we gave him a
call to preach the gospel to ns which he accepted/' After Mr. Smith had left
Kipping for Mixende^ Accepted Lister was solicited to. preach at Kipping,
and at last prevailed upon •' chiefly by the moving arguments of the good
Doctor Hall." In 1695 he moved to Bingley, but returned in . 1702 and
continued pastor of the Church at Kipping till his death in Feb., 1709.
a.— For Mr. M. Smith; cf. Heywood's Diaries, III., 214, 275. IV., 102,
24.5, 294. Jos. Lister's Autobiog., p. 53.
6.— For Mr. Firth, of Mansfield, see the Northowram Register, Index, and
Dunton's Panegyrick.
c— For Mr. Byther, see Heywood's Diaries, II., 289.
(/.—Heywood's Diaries, III., p. 263. "precious Mr. Wales is dead in my
absence, bury ed. at Leeds, May ii., 69. Noncon. Idol. Rayner's Pndsey.
*.— Hyd's. Diaries, IV., p. 314. " T. Whitaker, A.M., of Leeds, author of
sermons on Joseph Lister, etc/'
/.-For Mr. Ness, see Heywood's Diaries, I., 227, 262, 290, 304.
g.-For Mr. Jolly, II., 70, 95.
/».— For Mr. Whitehurst and the disputes in which he was involved, see
Heywood's Diaries, I., 223, 295. II., (Sep. 13th, 78,) p. 101. (Aug. 6th, 79,)
p. 112. Dec. 19tb, p. 240.
Y.X.Q. L
178 YORKSHIRE NOTE8 AND QUERIES.
I begin with quarto 6, as the sermons it contains are as a
rule earlier than those in the other books. They are for the
most part by Mr. Matthew Smith, who was minister at this
time of the Kipping Congregation. Words in italics are taken
from Dr. Hall's index.
p. 1. Mr. S., Kipping. Janu. or mon. 11th. Day 10th,
1681. Shuckden.
p. 10. Mr. S. Janu. or 11th mon. 12th day, 168}, at Kipp-
ing, 7 at night. [Saturday night.]
p. 28. Mr. S. 27th Janu. or mon. 11th, 8}. Kipping at
11 on ye day, grt. storme. [great snow.]
p. 89. Mr. S. ffeb. 8. 168J. Kipping 7 at night, at Leeds
Sundry, fined in 6 score pound now. M. S.
p. 54. Mr. S. 10th of 12th mon. 168}. Kipping at 5 in
morning. Great snow, but 6 besides ffamily.
p. 66. Mr. S. 1st of 12th mon. 168}. Alerton, day of
humiliation, [at brother Lister's, Alerton, day of prayer.
? now 60 (at) Leeds. . . fined 160 lb. . . ]
p. 76. Mr. S. 22nd June 84. At Shuckden at 11 on day-
time. Sr. Tho. Armstrong executed. Taken in Holland, [at
Leyden, Holland.]
p. 87. (This sermon has the character of being copied out
later, when Dr. Hall's handwriting had altered somewhat.)
Mr. L. Fast Day publiquely appointed on accompt of warr
with ffrance's usurpations, Dessolations by his Ambition and
perfidy, for forces success by land & sea in fflanders, in Spain,
in Germany, in Italy. 20th March, 1705. Mr. List'. Kipping.
Joshua 5. 14. form, clause. Nay but as Captain of ye Lord's
Host am I come. . . &c.
p. 96. Mr. S. 11th of 2d mon. 84. [at] Shukden [day
of humiliation. Mr. Smith.]
p. 105. Mr. S. 2d. mon. 27th day, 1684 [at] Kipping.
p. 115. Mr. S. July 9th, 84 [at] B.L. Alerton [day of
humiliation.]
p. 127. Mr. S. Kipping [day of humiliation.
p. 188. Mr. S. 19th 7 ber, 84. Alerton. Brother] L[ister's],
humiliation.
p. 146. Mr. S. 10th 8ber, 84. Kipping, firyday [night
at] for Lord's day.
p. 159. 19th 8ber 84, [at] Kipping [at] 7 at night. Lord's
day [night.]
p. 175. Mr. Stopforth at Pickworth, 1678. 9ber 5th, 1678, a
Conformist.
p. 202. A Conformist also, (fast for plot.) A sermon preached
9ber 18th, 1678, ye 1st ffast day for ye Plott.
p. 229. Tlie same as visitation beffore ye clsartyy, <£e., at
SUtford, May 9th, 1679. A Sermon preaohed at ye visitations
at Sleford, before ye whole clergy & ye churchwardens of ye
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 179
Areh-Deconry of Lincoln, on May 9th, 1679, by ye same con-
formist.
p. 289. Mr. S. 6th mon. 8th day [at] 10 at night [at]
Kipping, 1688. Hue & cry for D. Monmouth, Gray & Arm-
strong now.
p. 258. Mr. S. Mon. 5th 15th, 88, [at] Kipping [at] 10 at
night, wn. they are persecuting their Horrid damnable plott
against many Innocent men. At the end of the sermon, * Of
Russell, Trenchard, &c, as plotters, &c. 200 Lords are said to
be in it, & Essex throat now cutt in Tower. Russel & Shafts-
bury, &c, must off.*
The sermons from this date to 28 Nov., 88, are on Job xxi.,
22, " Acquaint now thyself," &o.
p. 275. July 22nd, 88, [at] Kipping [at night.] papall
power now rises.
p. 288. 29th 5th mon., 88, [at] 9 at night, [at] Kipping.
Now Ld. Russell & other 8 executed on 20 & 21st of July.
p. 302. mo. 6th, day 5th, at 9 at night, 2 suspitious persons
among us, but we have our Ebenezers still to set up.
p. 318. Aug. or mon. 6th, day 12th, 68, [at] Kipping, at 2
in ye morning.
p. 825. Aug. or mon. 6th, day 29th, 88, [at] Kipping, at 2
in ye morning.
p. 887. Aug. or 6th mon. 88, 25th. At night at 10. Satur-
day night. New warrants now out againe.
p. 847. Sept. 2d., 1688, [at] Kipping [at] 8 in ye morning.
p. 359. 9th 7ber, 88, [at] Kipping, [at] 8 morning, warants
for us for 3 weeks absenting and aprehending dissenters, &c.
p. 372. Sept. 15th, 1688, [at] Kipping, [at] 9 at night.
New warts, out for persons for ye misdemeanor of absenting &
harboring such, &c.
p. 885. 7ber 28th, 83, [at] Kipping, at 8 morning.
p. 898. 7ber ult. 88, [at] Kipping, at 8 in ye morning.
p. 412. 8ber 7th, 88, [at H. m n] Shuckden, at 3 in ye
morning.
p. 425. 8ber 14th, 88, [at] Kipping, at 8 in ye morning.
p. 438. 21th 8br. 88, [at] Kipping, morn at 8. done [at
6] in break of day.
p. 452. Mr. S. 9b. 28d. 88. [at] Allerton. B[rother]
L[ister's] . Humiliation Day [Day of Prayer.]
p. 468. Mr. S. At Shuckden, Day 6th of mon. 1st, 8? [at
sunrise morning. Mr. Smith.]
p. 472. Mr. S.
p. 474. day 20th.
The headings to the sermons in the book called No. 6 of
Quartos I will give next, first however giving the following
passage from the Index page.
180 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
"for it was (as they got swearng. perjured persons they
suborned — nay Jefferey made any Colour of fauour towards ym
or wt. he would oall to be such) to serue to take away their
liues, and tho they had nothing agst. men in any of ye 4 plots
or forgeries they made, yet no matr. still I was they would say
a favourr. and knowing or hearing, as Russell's case, ye 4
cases (& 4 eminent deliuerances) was — Bingley list of names
forged & put in at stable door bottom— Gawthrop 2d. ffarnley
wood. 3d. ye forged list of L. W. H. &c. 4o mon mouth, ye
1st fairly detected by J. Taylr in whose name ye names was in-
serted in 's ttr. . . . ? forged he a prissonr. ye 2d. M. W.
came to aprnd me M. M. stopt it long unknown to me. ye 3d.
M. W. himself prevented, some years ere I knew he did so. ye
last J. 6. told it publiqly at Hardeubeck, I sent hors Arms &
man. Gap. Kooks was such a day (as is noted) a coming to
aprnd me. yet ye Id prevented still.
1. Day of Humili, viz. 10th of 1st mon. 81 at B. ITs.,
Allerton, M. S.
8. Mr. Wales at Pudsey, 1649.
Ad fin. Tra scribitur undecimo die mensis Secundi Ano xti
1685.
17. ult. mens 1. (85. Kipping Humiliation Day. Mr. Smith.
24. 8th of 2d. mon. (85. at John Hanson's, Mixenden.
27. Mr. Smith, Kipping, Septemb. 15, 1708. Lecture.
83. 26th Oct. (84. at Kipping, 4 in morning. Lord's Day.
Mr. S.
A Scotch plofct now talkt of, nobillity is charged with it.
46. Kipping, at 6 at night. 9th 9br, 84.
56. 16 9ber (84. at Br Berry's at 8 afternoon.
64. at Kipping at 6 at night.
75. at Kipping at 6 at night. 9br ult. 84.
85. 7th lObr, 84. at Br. B*s. at 6 at night.
96. 14th lObr, 84. at Kipping at 6 at night.
107. 28o lObr, 64. Kipping at night.
119. 11th mon. 8rd day. Kipping, at 6 at night.
129. 11th of 11th mo. 87. at Kipping, at 6 at night. Mr.
Heywood now has bis tryall.
138. 18o. of 11th mo. SI. at Kipping, at 6 at night. Mr.
Heywood is fined 50tb. Biot.
147. Kipping, at 7 at night, ffryday for Lord's day. 23 of
11th mon. 81.
156. feb. or 12th mon. 1st day, 82. Kipping, 6 at night.
165. ffeb. or 12th mon. 15th 85. Kipping, 7 at night.
Now K. James to be pclamed to-day.
172. 21st F. or 12th mon. 85. Kipping, 7 at night.
180. 1st day 1st of March, 8f . Kipping, 7 at night.
190. 8o of mon. 1st, 8*. Kipping at 8 at night.
Assizes now begins.
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199. 15th of 1st mon. 8?. Kipping, 8 at night.
207. 22nd of 1st mon. 81. Kipping at 8 at night.
Now Jesuits, Priests, Papists, are set at liberty at York, but
Ptestants are prissoners.
216. 28th of 1st mon. 86. Kipping at 8 at night.
Cardinall Howard is said now to be coming from Borne to
crown ye King.
224. 2 mo. 5th day, 85. Kipping at 8 at night.
Now Papists cause Clergymen in Lancashire to drink the Pope's
Health.
281. 12th of 2d. mon. (85. Kipping, 9 at night.
Now it's said ye prissoners in Scotland are set att liberty by an
Insurrection.
241. 19o of 2d. mon. 85. Kipping, 8 afternoon.
Now ye papists have 2 cardinalls to crown, &c, as is said.
250. 26th April, 85. at Shuckden at 8 afternoon.
259. 2 mon. 8d day, 85. Kipping at 8 o'clock.
Now 16 at London are taken & fined for Riot.
267. 10th May or mon. 8, 85. At Shuckden. fforenoori,
they say now they have a warrant for Mr. S. but none is here.
281. 12th of 5th mon. 85. At James Kighley's (not been
with us of 8 weeks now.) Monmouth is rooted, for which
Bone fires & Bells, and drinking Healths to Confusion of Pres-
biterians, Ac. now 8 score are taken at York & carried
prissonrs to Hull, & so from Hull to York. All sorts storme &
Bage against us as helpers of ye Duke with men, Horse,
monyes. 5000 is to be taken up in Yorkshire on yt accompt
myself they tell it is one of ym. So Mr. Books said for Mr.
Segar said yt I had sent man & Horse armes &c.
291. Note yt Capt. Books 14o. day is coming to fetch me
into Sessio's & so to prisson, but God suffered ym not to come
to my house.
292. 12th mon. 5th (85. at James Kighley's, at midnight.
299. Kipping 10 night. 2nd of 6th mon. 85. Note yt 15th
July ye Gentlemen of ye parish meets at Bradford to Consult
(I supose on a list of names to take & imprisson persons) Note
that day Monemoth is executed, (shorthand passage.)
809. 7th day 8th of Aug. or 6th mon. 85. Shuckden 8
night. Holland Embassador saith yt ye Bebels yt fled thithr
shall be secured. Argile is routed & taken & trayd.
820. 16 of 6th mon. 85. Kipping at 8 at night.
880. 22nd Aug. 85. Shuckden at 9 at night. Now ye K.
is still raising new soldiers, now prissonrs from London is
carved to be tryed for their Hues in ye west Bumbolds Quartr.
is boxed up fro Scotland to London.
889. 80th Aug. or mon. 6th, 85. Kipping, 8 at night.
many are Butchered & hanged on signposts in ye west, of all
ages & sexes, <fcc.
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Now a prodigious fish is taken at York 20° of August.
847. 5°7ber, 86. Shuckden 9 at night. Now a lady is to
be burnt for entertaining some of monmouths men, 2 gentle-
men at her house &c.
856. 18° 7ber, 85. Kipping, 8 afternoon. Maxfield now
proclamed traitor & all yt relieues him. (short-hand.)
866. 27° 7ber, 85. Kipping at 7 at night.
876. 81 8ber, 85. Kipping, 7 at night. Jeffrey now hath
condemned 1100 it said. Jeffrey is to be Lord Chief Steward
of England, to try all Lords yt was not for the popish
successor.
886. 8ber 11° 88. Kipping at 7 at night.
896. 25th 8r- 85. Note yt Mr. S. came not ye week before,
Ac Kipping, 6 at night. Now Sheriff Shutt is hanged at
London, and another, &c, and a woman for helping some to
escape, Ac, & we are disapointed, &c.
404. 1st 9ber. 85. Kipping, 6 at night. Now its said 2
Gardinalls is come to reduce England to Mother Church.
Sheriff Cornish is executed att his own door, &c.
(at foot of page) grt expectation from ye parliamt now, eithr.
their discord and so popery falls ; or accord & its set up now.
410. 9r* 15th, 85. Kipping 5 at night, many executed at
London on pretence of Shaftsbury conspiracy. Its said there's
7000 in Yorkshire that's in it, and two of them they haue in
Thornton.
K. tells parlamt as he hath raised an Army in stead of ye
militia, so hee will keep them, tho not quallifyed by the teste
& expects money from ym to mai'tane them now.
415. 22° 9r 65. Kipping at 6 at night. K. wants of pt.
now 4,000,000 to maintain his Army. They giue him 700,000
in Excise and Custom &c. advisses him to put out his illegall
officrs not qualifyed, <&c. & W. W. spks in comons house
briskly agst ym, & of dangr- of popry with a high hand brought
in. forthwith he's sent for into ye K's clossett to be made
anothr- creature.
425. 25 8r* 85. Kipping at 6 at night. Mr. S. came not
Lds. day before.
429. 1st 9r- 65. Kipping 6 at night. Cornish hangd (&
woman burnt now) Hussells bussyness.
485. 15th 9ber, 85. Kipping, 6 at night.
441. 22° 9r- 85. Kipping, 5 at night. 48 Lords of parlmt.
are wanting. K. will haue ym. raise him 4,000,000th. they
grant 700,0001b. wil. willing tells ym. ye constitution of
England is not for popry, they must look to it.
447. 29 9r 85. Kipping at 5 at night, parliamt is pro-
rogued. Cook is comited to Town for saying in lowrhouse,
Oentlmen lets never be run down with ye K's. grt words, let it
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 188
be seen we've English spirits & mind onr duty & work we're
come on.
452. 5° 10r- 85. Kipping at 5 at night. Lord Grey, Ld.
Howard & Bumsey swears Lord Brandon, Gerard, &c, out of
their lines as far as they can. Now Excisers comanded to take
accompt of Beds & Stables in Inns.
459. 18° 10*- 85. Kipping, 5 at night. Lord Brand or
Gilbert Gerard is said now to be reprieued in order to a pardon
for yt which now he's condemned for, he was pardond for it 2
years agoe by ye late King, now its said 80 nobles is gone to
Borne, & prisonrs at London is released (some grand dessign
carying on.)
464. 20 10*- 85. Kipping, 5 at night. Trepaning designs
carying on ; plotts pretended for keeping an Army to ruine all
Protestants by : a feigned plot draw up by Le Strange to reflect
it on all sorts.
468. 27. 10r- 85. Kipping, 6 at night. Ld. Gerrard's
pardon is renoked & Balamany is condemned for High Treason.
A cardinall at Lond. preacht before ye K. & tells him wt. grt.
things Virgin Mary hath done, hath put a sword in 's hand to
destroy all hereticques.
474. 8 of 11th mon. 85. Kipping, 6 at night. Delemere is
now condemnd at Ghestr. Gerrard to have no pardon. K.
sends to grt men in London to educate their children in Bom.
Belig. now its known ye K. intends to quarter his army on ye
Dissentrs ; soldirs insolent in their quartrs, &c. Now Papists
in Lancashire bring openly their priests to bury their dead.
479. 17° of mon. 11. 85. Kipping at 6 at night. K. hath
sent into Ireland & reduced all to his will, put all protestants
out k papists in arms, &c. Qu. said now to be wth childe.
486. 24° of 12th mon. 8!. Kipping at 7 at night. Now
Delamere is cleared, try'd by his peers. Gray and Bumsey
witnesses &c. Albemarle 1st spoke & told on his Honour yt
Delamere was not guilty. Lord Gerard & Hambden are re-
prieued. The apparition of the army in ye North on yt day is
confirmd.
498. Day ult. Jan. or 11th mon. 85*- Kipping, 7 at night.
Now protestants sadly persecuted by all statutes.
499. 7° of 12° mon. 856 Kipping, 7 at night. M™8- Whitk*
now is Dead at York.
805. 14° of 12th mon. 85*- Kipping, 7 at night. Now its
said ye K. will haue 20,000 soldiers raised in Yorkshire of
Abeyrents (?Adherents.)
* Now Dr. King is knighted for his good service to ye late K.
vide supradict wt. it was.
511. 21° of mon. 12° 85. Kiping, 4 afternoon, now yt K.
C. lined & Died a Cathollick is seen.
184 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
517. 11 di. mens. 12* 85* Shuckden, sunrising. Now K.
asks prelates ye reason they not like roman religion, they say
because its so bloody, he confutes ym.
Now in York 8 Altars are set up already, openly hath mass,
papists seeks grt. men to turn.
628. 7° of mo. 1st. 85* Kiping, 7 at night. Now Count
Tradley is aliue againe; after he's kil'd & his head sent to
Constantinople.
529. Notes of a Sermon preached by Mr. Bayly at North-
owrom, June 24, 1678.
Hitherto I have given the headings to the sermons without
omission, as far as they are in Dr. Hall's handwriting, and
relate to his time. The headings in the remaining volumes
have generally less historical interest, and I therefore propose
only to give a few of the more remarkable.
The 1st Octavo contains sermons by Mr. Bayly, Mr.
Byther, Mr. Gamaliel and Mr. Jeremiah Marsden, Mr. Smith.
Mr. Ness, Mr. Firth of Mansfield, Mr. Accepted Lister, Mr.
Heywood, Mr. Collier, Mr. Noble and Mr. Whittaker.
One of Mr. Firth's sermons is thus headed —
"Feb. 14, 168S. At Mansfield. By Mr. Firth. Thanksgiving
Serm. for Engl, deliuerace &c."
It is to be noticed that William & Mary were declared King
and Queen Feb. 18th, 1685.
The solitary sermon by Mr. Oliver Heywood in this collection
is headed —
"Mr. Heywood, Northowrom. preparation for sacr. 7ber.
1700."
The next heading is characteristic —
" Mr. Lister (ye litle) at Bingley. June 28, 1700."
Further on, we have
"Mr. Listr. at Kipping, publiq Thanksgiuing June 27,
1706. grt victory ouer ye ffrench. fflandrs."
This is Bamilies.
My next volume " No. 8 of Quartos " begins with a sermon
thus headed —
" Mr. Firth, a Sermon Respecting ye electing of Parliam'
men by Mr. J. Firth. Mansfield 1681 or 82."
Then— " Mr. Smith. Mon. ye 3rd (i. e. May) ye 1st day (87,
at Kipping in ye meeting-place, ye 2nd time after ye K's De-
claration for liberty.* '
"Now we are in our meeting-place by ye K's proclam.
Kirk men rage and storm exceedingly specialy at those yt used
to bear in ye persecution time, naming Mr. Sh.
This book contains an almost complete series of expositions
of the 5th, 6th and 7th chapters of Canticles, 2 of them being
delivered each alternate month, and the whole extending from
Nov. 1702 to Feb. 1709, the time of the preacher's death. The
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 185
sermons in any given month are headed respectively — " Pre-
paration Day " and " Snpper Day." The « Supper Day ' was, I
presume, a Sunday; the 'Preparation' seems generally to
have been held on the Wednesday preceding, but sometimes
the interval is greater, sometimes less, ranging between 5 days
k 2 inclusive.
The last sermon but one which Accepted Lister preached is
headed
"ffeb. 20, 170S. Supper Day. (preparation 17th Day, ye
Day of Thanksgiving.)
The next sermon, headed merely ' Afternoon ' has the follow-
ing note appended —
' Note yt next morning aflr this he was taken with convulsio's
wch continued with some intermission untill Thursday night,
and yn about 12 or 2 a clock he dyed — we lost him but ye
Church Triumphant has Gained him.1
Again after another series of sermons preached weekly during
the summer of 1708, on S' John, xiv. xv., we have this note at
the end of the sermon of Sept. 12.
"Mr. Listr intended to haue prooeeded in his expossition
furthr herein, but ye Lord took him home, ffeb. 24th in ye
night betwixt 12 & 2 a clock. He was Interred ffeb. 28th."
Once more we have a series of sermons preached by Mr.
Lister in the end of 1708, & early part of 1709, and one more
note appended to the sermon of Feb. 18. " The next Lord's
day was Supper Day. As this day he busyly & more difficultly
attended and performed his work ; and finished this text : so
ye Supper Day's work much more difficulty, which was his
last, for next morning he begun to be taken with convulsions,
which continued till Thursday night (with some intermission)
& y1- took him off, to our grt. troble & loss, but his grt. Gain."*
The note is continued in the hand-writing of Dr. Hall's
great-grandson, John Firth.
" for to him to Live was Xt. and to dy was Unspeakable
Gain, & it was part of his Xtian Character that he desired to
know nothing save Xt and him Crucified, & who had for his
Motto this Short Epitaph inscribed on his grave-stone, 'Impen-
dam & Expendar,' i.e. 1 1 will spend my Strength & be willing
* These are probably tbe last words written by Dr. Hall, which we have, as
within four months of this he followed Accepted and Joseph Lister to the
grare. c.p. the " Northowram Register," ed. by J. Horsfall Turner.
" Mr. Accepted Lister minr- at Kipping, preacht twice & administred Lds.
Supper, Febr. 20, died Febr. 28. An excellent Preacher, a little helpless
body, but a great and sound soul. Mr. Joseph Lister of Kipping, The
Minn. Father died Mar. 11, aged abt. 80, an Eminent Christian, but a
fortnight between his and his son's death, both buried at Thornton Chappel.
Mr. Hall, of Kipping, died June 6. A solid Judicious Christian & a useful
Physician, aged abt. 78, (p. 245.) Mr. John Hall died at London, June 6,
('1708.' by mistake)
See also Jos. Lister's Autobiography, p. 58, and Whitaker's Sermons.
186 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
to be Spent in ye cause of Xt., & in bringing Sons to Glory by
my preaching &c. A certain person was pleased to say of him
that he was Vox & proeterea Nihil, because of his Excellent &
Melodious Voyce, & being but of Low Stature, &c, &c, &c."
Then follows, "April 17th, 1709. Mr. Whitaker Funeral
Sermon for old Joseph Listr, Kipping. Dyed March 11th,
Buried 14th. " The sermon as given here differs greatly from
the form it takes in Whitaker1 s published sermons.
There are one or two more headings in this volume which
have some interest.
Thus, "Aug. 29th, 1708. Thanksgiving for Victory on'r
ffrench army in Slanders in latr. end of June, 1708. Mr. Listr
at Kipping. There was King of Frances 2 grandsons, Burbon
& Birry, & George Chavilier ye Pretender at ye fight many
slain, many taken."
"Feb. 17th, 17089- Thanksgiving for Army's success in
fflandrs. Taking Lisle aftr 2 moneths besieged, recovering
Ghent & Bruges & two fforts from ye ffrench, gaining a Batle
at Overard, preserving Brussels wn. besieged &c.
" March 28, 1708. Now wee've an acoompt of ye pretended
prince of Wales with a ffrench Army in Scotland at Anderness.
The volume called Octavo 5 does not call for illustration
here. Nor need I say much of the later series of sermons in
the handwriting of John Firth. Mr. Hulme, who contributes 8,
was minister at Kipping. The sermon preached by Mr. Dodd-
ridge, at Northampton in 1785, is strong evidence for John
Firth being the interpolator of these later sermons, as we find
from his father's account book, that, he was at Northampton
from Aug. 1785 to Aug. 1786.
In conclusion, I may claim for these volumes a distinct value
as material for the history of Yorkshire religious life. They
bring before us again a score or two of worthies of whom we
have read something in Galamy, in Oliver Heywood, or in
Joseph Lister's Autobiography ; they give us a large collection
of the sermons which these men preached and listened to, with
details of time and place, which speak eloquently of persecution
met by conscientious perseverance; they show besides what
rumours from the outer world came to disturb the remote &
pious congregation of the West Biding.
Perhaps I may be permitted hereafter to say a few words on
more general points which are raised by these Hall & Firth
MSS. G. C. Moore Smith.
Berlin.
York Mint. — Your correspondent was a long way out when
he wrote his account of the York coins, which were not struck
at York, but at South wark under Sir John York, Master of
that Mint. T. W. S.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 187
$ iajjue of £ttrfelb.*
Many of oar readers will be interested in hearing that upon
the occasion of opening a Vault in the area of the Old Parish
Church, for the interment of the late Mr. Greenwood, of Dews-
bury Moor House, a stone was found bearing the following
inscription : — There was a Plague in the Parish of Mirfield, A. D.
1631, whereof died 140." We believe the Churchwardens
propose to have it placed in the wall of the Old Church Tower.
William Rhodes, of Northorpe, died of the pestilence on the
18th September, 1681, and was buried near the Church Porch
on the 20th of the same month, as appears by the inscription
on his grave-stone. Agnes, wife of William Rhodes, of Nor-
thorpe, died of the same epidemical distemper, and was buried
6th October, 1681. Now as there is no memorial of her death
upon the stone, in all probability she and many more were
buried near their own dwellings. I find Alice, wife of Henry
Wraith, buried June 1st, 1681, and it is said, the husband
would not be at the expense of getting his wife's corpse decently
interred at a convenient distance from the house, which oc-
casioned the following Rhyme.
Henry Wraith to save a Crown,
Buried his Wife in hay-stack ground.
JtttQEtt anb &fr*plor Uri&ges.
THE FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF A CURIOUS ENTRY IN THE MIRFIELD
PARISH BEOISTEB, RELATING TO LEDOARD BRIDGE.
Let it be known for the time to come, of the many suits and
troubles that were between Robert Ledgard and the parishioners
of Mirfield, about his bridge called Ledgard Bridge.
1627.
Robert Ledgard, about the year of our Lord 1627, did lay a
pain in the General Quarter Sessions, on the inhabitants of
Mirfield, of 1001, to repair the said bridge, and by the advice of
John Armytage, Esquire, and Mr. George Thurgarland, there
were eight or ten of the oldest men in Mirfield provided to go
to the Sessions, who entered a traverse of the same, and by the
testimony of Thomas Beaumont, Richard Lee, Henry Rhodes,
and others, who could remember the first foundation of the
said bridge, and that Ledgard's elders did build it only for the
use of their Mill, and that before ever it was built, they kept a
' We are indebted to Mr. Nevin and Mr. Chadwick, for the Mirfield Notes
contained in the following pages.
188 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
boat, and the close where the boat was is called still Boat-
houses, and so he was cast in his own action, and when he saw
he could not prevail, he presently after set on workmen and
felled timber of his own, and begs some trees of others, and
also begs money of some, who made use of his Mill, and like-
wise got some gatherings in neighbouring parishes for it.
1650.
And in the year 1650 he brings it into the General Sessions
again, and the Justices flung it out and would not hear him.
1655.
And in the year 1655, he brings an information against the
inhabitants of Mirfield in the name of the Lord Protector, and
Mr. Shaw, his Attorney, returns the writ again, and so the
town was fined for not appearing, and 11 and odd money camo
in issues, which the town paid before they knew, and they then
retained Mr. Peoples, who put in an appearance, and it came
to an issue at Lammas following, and there he was non-suited.
1656.
And he brought it on again at the next Lammas Assizes
following, which was anno 1656, and was also cast there by the
testimony of Eichard Beaumont, of Liversedge, who made a
relation of the first Session's business.
And presently after the Assizes, the said Robert Ledgard,
and Edward Hep worth, together hire Joseph Senior and his
man to repair and prop it, and also found wood and paid them
their wages.
1657.
And again in the year 1657, after the death of Robert
Ledgard, John Ledgard, his son, and some others, adjacent
neighbours of their own accord, and especially for their own
ends, did amend and repair that remaining at the far end, and
sent Hirsts' wife of Snake Hill, and Will Walker's wife, to go
about to beg money where they thought they could get enough
to pay wages with.
These are the particulars of the several lawsuits about Led-
gard Bridge in the 17th century, inserted in the Parish Register
for a memorandum to posterity.
Note — The Mr. Peoples, above mentioned, will most probably l>e Mr.
John Peobles, or Peebles, who wan a Barrister and some time Clerk of the
Peace for the West-Riding. He was first Steward, and afterwards by
purchase, Lord of the Manor of Dewsbnry. For his many misdeeds he
obtained the title of "the Devil of Dewsbnry." There is a tablet to his
memory in the Chancel of Dewsbnry Church. Some curious particulars
about Mr. Peebles may be seen in Greenwood's History of Dewsbnry, page
119, and in note B to Sir Walter Scott's poem of Rokeby. See also Oliver
Heywood's Diarie*% where Mr. Peebles is mentioned as taking part in a
drinking bout at Nunbrook.
YORKSHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES. 189
This biidge, in 1714, was only a footbridge, and the ford was
called Cow-ford. In 1717 the sum of 80/ was allowed towards
repairing it by order of Sessions, as appears by the Sessions
Record book.
In 1767, Ootober 7th, this bridge was taken down by the
largest flood ever remembered, with eleven neighbouring
bridges ; and at Pontefract Sessions, 1768, Sir John Kaye, of
Grange, and others, obtained an order there for it to be put on
Agbrigg Wapontake ; and referred it to Sir Geo. Armytage, and
others, to contract for rebuilding it, and agreed with Joseph
Annitage, and Henry Wheatley, Carpenters, of Mirfield, to do
it for 180/ ; besides part of the old materials. It was finished
that year.
A stone bridge of four arches, for carriages, was commenced
in the Autumn of 1799, a little above the old wooden bridge
above mentioned, but owing to the waters coming on, nothing
more than the Hopton end pier, and the next one to it, were
got up. The bridge was finished in the year 1800 ; and at
Bradford Sessions in the year 1818, one hundred yards of the
road through Milnfold, was indicted for non -repair, and sub-
mitted to by the Wapontake, and set with E Hand-Edge Stones
in December 1818, and January 1819.
The following is a copy of the original subscription list, for
snbstituting a stone bridge in the place of the wooden one.
The original list was written on parchment with a deed stamp
impressed, and in October, 1836, was in the possession of Mr.
Richard Hurst, Maltster, East-thorpe.
May, 1798.
The Bridge called Ledgard Bridge, over the river Calder,
leading from Mirfield to Hopton, (and likewise the King's
Highway from Bradford to Barnsley), is in a dangerous situ-
ation and much out of repair, therefore it was indicted at the
General Quarter Sessions, held at Pontefract. The present
bridge being only a pack and prime bridge, application was
made at the Sessions, that it might be converted into a carriage
bridge, but standing upon the Wapontake as a pack and prime
bridge, the Court could not so order it. Mr. Hartley, the
Bridge Surveyor, produced an estimate of the expense of the
repairs of the present bridge, which amounted to 880/ or 850/
(the figures being nearly illegible in the original,) likewise a
plan and estimate of a stone carriage bridge, which amounted
1,799/.
It appeared to the Court, that a carriage bridge would be
more convenient to the public, than repairing the present pack
and prime bridge, but if the same is undertook for a carriage
bridge, they have ordered that 550/ be allowed and paid to-
wards the building the same, and farther gratuity will be
allowed when the bridge is completely finished. TI19 Court
190
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
having so generously come forward (though the remaining sum
to complete a carriage bridge will be 1,250/), it will require
large subscriptions for performing the same, and without which
a carriage bridge can't be obtained.
Therefore, we, whose names are hereunto set, being well per-
suaded of the great advantage the Country will derive from a
Carriage bridge instead of a pack and priine bridge, do hereby
severally and not jointly, agreo to subscribe and to pay unto
Mr. Joshua Ingham, the treasurer appointed for the said bridge,
the several sums of money set opposite to our respective names,
upon demand towards the making of such a carriage bridge.
G. Armytage 100
R.H.Beaumont 100
R.LumleySavile 50
John Lister Kaye 80
Wm. Norris, as
Clark to the
Calder and
Hebble Navi-
gation
50 0
£ s.
31 10
42 0
21 0
21 0
Joshua Ingham
Joshua Hint
J. Stanoliffe
Richard Hurst
Wm. and Thos.
Dawson
JasMicklethwaitelO 10
John and Thos.
Wheatley
Chas. Wooler
Josa. Smith
Josa. Haigh
21 0
21 0
21 0
15 15
10 10
Richd.Wheatley
Thos. Wheatley
Wm. Ledgard
Thos. Oxley
Josh. Hall
Richd. Batley
Levi Sheard
Mr. Frans. Sykes 6 5
Note. — £15 15 0 is written in pencil opposite Charles Wooler's name, and
the columns are cast-up in pencil as follows : —
First -
Second
Third -
£830
214
- 9
n f Being 11 too little on the supposition that
u ( C. Wooler only paid £15 15 0.
0
County
More
553 14 0
550 0 0
416 13 4
£1,620 7 4
From a note on the copy subscription list, from which this
copy is taken, it appears that the deficiency in the subscriptions
was paid by the gentlemen who entered into the contract with
the builders (Luke Holt and another), the " further gratuity"
which was promised at the sessions having been refused.
Ledgard Mill, adjoining Ledgard Bridge, takes its name from
the Ledgard Family. The bridge and mill, and a kiln adjoin-
ing, were carried away by a flood, 10th Septr., 1673. The mill
and kiln were rebuilt of stone by Mr. Matthew Wilkinson, of
Oreenhead, in 1678.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 191
SHEPLEY BRIDGE.
This bridge appears to have been first built in the year 1732.
Before it was built there was a ferry across the river at the
place now called Boathouse; near Broad Oaks. The bridge was
repaired by the Wapontake, in the year 1766, and again in
1811. It is a bridle bridge, in connection with the bridle
roads, leading past Cote Wall, and the Reformatory, to Whitley
and Thornhill, and past New Hall to Liley Lane. The neigh-
bouring Mills, now called Low Mills, Were formerly called
Shepley Mills, and both the bridge and the mills are named
from the Shepley family, one of whom named Edward, occupied
the mills under the Hoptons, of Blake Hall, in the 16th
Century. By a deed dated 18th March, 1652, Christopher
Hopton, of Wortley, Esq., and John Hopton, his son and heir
apparent, for and in consideration of the sum of 200// sold to
Miles Stapleton, of Wighill, Esq., all the Manor or Lordship
called Blake Hall, otherwise Blackall, or Hopton (i.e. Hopton
House.) And all those mills, situate and being in Mirfield,
commonly called Shepley Mills, in the occupation of Robert
Holdsworth.
Bretton Hall Ballad. — It is a mistake to state that the
"original1' Bretton Hall Ballad was printed by J as. Watts,
Heckmondwike. He printed ballads, songs, &c, for tramping
hawkers, and copy would undoubtedly be supplied by persons
who hawked them. Spen Valley.
Urufs.
From a little book called How to write the History of a Parish
we learn that "Royal Letters Patent authorising collections for
charitable purposes within churches, were called « Briefs.'
Lists of them, from the time of Elizabeth downwards, are
often to be found on the fly leaves of old register books, or in
churchwardens' accounts. The repair or re-building of churches
in post-reformation days, until nearly the beginning of the
Catholic Revival was almost invariably effected by this method.
About the middle of last century, owing to the growing
frequency of briefs, it was ordered that they should only be
granted on the formal application of Quarter Sessions."
The following is a copy of all the entries relating to Briefs in
the Old Churchwardens' book, kept in the Vestry of Mirfield
Parish Church. This book is in a very dilapidated state, and
we venture to suggest that it should be carefully re-bound. It
contains many curious entries and particulars of parish meet-
ings, commencing in the year 1686:— April ye 18, 1690.
192 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Collected for the Briefe of East Smithfield, in Midlesex, the
sum of three shillings and three half-pence.
Witnesse our hands, Rich. Margerison, Vic.
«-*—{& ssr*
Collected for the Irish Protestants by a briefe in the f
Parish of Mirfield, the sum of one pound thirteen] 1 13 6
shillings and sixpence. (
Collected for the Briefe of Bungay in Suffolke, six shillings and
three pence.
These three collections appear all to have been made on the
same day and are all signed by the Vicar and Churchwardens.
May the 5th, 1690. Collected for the Brieve of New Alers-
ford, in Hampshire, the sum of five shillings and two pence.
Signatures as before.
June ye 8th, 1690. Collected for ye Irish Brieve the sum of
three shillings, seaven pence halfe-peny.
R. Margerison, Vic.
Aug. ye 8rd, 1690. Collected upon ye Brieve for St. Ives,
three shillings, three pence halfe-peny.
Same signatures as last brief.
Aug. ye 10, 1690. Collected upon ye Brieve for Stafford,
the summ of two shillings, four pence halfe-peny.
Same signatures as last brief.
1691. Collected upon ye Brieve for (name not legible) three
shillings and one peny.
Signed by R. Margerison and Wm. Hepworth.
Collected upon ye Brieve for Thirsk, ye sum of two shillings
and two pence.
Signed as last brief.
Collected upon ye Brieve for Clayborne, ye sum of two
shillings and two pence and halfe-peny.
Signed as last brief.
April ye 20th, 1695. Collected upon ye briefe for York, ye
sum of seven shillings and ten pence.
Rich. Margerison, Vic.
SS^E* }<*■>*■-*-
September ye 26, 1694. Collected upon ye French Protest-
ants Briefe, ye sum of fourteen shillings.
Same signatures as last brief.
Aprill ye 14, 1695. Collected upon ye Briefe for nether
haven and Hivelton (this name is doubtful) ye sum of three
shillings.
Same signatures as last brief.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 198
Hhtg's Urofs.
The Churchwardens1 accounts of the parish of East Budleigh,
Devonshire, contain long lists of Collections for Briefs. These
were fairly responded to by the inhabitants from the date of
the first recorded collection on Nov. 5, 1669, until the last
quarter of the 18th century, when the donations were few and
far between. The following list contains all that relate to
Yorkshire.
s. d.
" 1684. Collected for Bunswick in Yorksheere, 8 6 ob.
The record of a collection made at Clent in
Staffordshire, in the same year (1684) upon a brief,
gives full details of its object (N. <£• Q. 5th s., iv. 449.)
" Bunswick. Collect. Aug. 8, upo' a Brief for ye
inhabitants of Bunswick, in ye North Biding of ye
cou'ty of York, wch. sd. Town standing wtin a Bay
on ye side of a greate Hill wch opening about ye
middle ye town did slip down from it. 08.07."
1685. Collected in the prish of Est budligh for
the poore suffers by fier of Sicklinghall in the
County of York*, the sume of too shilens and one
half-peny.
1706. Colected within our prish for and towards
Bepear of the Collegiate Church of St. John in
towne of Benerley, in the County of York, eighten
penc halfpeny.
1720. Colected fore Ingman thorpe and norton
vnder Cannock Conabor [Com: Ebor. ?] and
Stafford fore fire ... ... ... 0 8
Colected fore Ingman trop and norton vnd canock
in Com. Ebor and Staford fore fire County of York 0 2
[The two preceding entries follow each other.
It is not probable that one brief included two places
so widely apart. Very likely the recorder muddled
the two collections.]
Colected for Saint Olaues Church near the Cyti
of York ... ... ... ... 0 2
1721. Collected a briefe for Eingson upon Hull,
the sume of six pence.
1728. Collected a brieffe for Yarme in the County
of Yorke the sume of three pence.
1780. Coleted for Ouston Church in Com Ebor
the sum of three pens.
1782. Jan. 21. — Collectd a breefe for austerfeild
in Count. York ... ... ... 1 2
1785. Octob. 20.— Collectd a breefe for Empsay
inCoxnEber ... ... ... ... 0 10
Y.N.Q. K
194. YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1759. For Tadcaster Church in the County of
York ... ... ... ... 0 4
1766. Hail Storm in York Shier ... ... 0 2
1768. Walkington Fire County of York ... 0 0
1769. Inundation in York Share ... ... 0 8*
1784. March ye 14. one for East Coltingwith
Chaple in ye count York ... ... ... 0 0
March ye 28, one for Saint Anne's Chapel in ye
Count York ... ... ... ... 0 0
1785. febery 27, one for Ecclesall Chapel ... 0 0
The Remainder are headed in each 'Annual List — " Briefs
Published in East Budleigh Church," and the amounts appended
to each entry, are those for which each brief was issued, except
in the year 1810, which omits them. "Nothing collected" is
added to most of the entries.
" 1788. Bolsterstone Chapel in Com. York
1790. Hemingborough Fire in Com. York
1795. Maultby Church in Com. York
1798. Arncliffe Church in Com. York
Boltby Chapel in Com. York
1799. Coley Chapel in Com. York
1800. Felbeck Mill Fire in Com. York
Deanhead Chapel in Com. York
1808. Alne and appleton Boebuok fire Yourk 894
1804. Ey ton fire Yourk
1805. Grindleton Chapel Yourk
1806. Coley Chapel in York
Kingley Church in Yourk
Wibsey Chapel in Yourk ...
1807. Luddenden Church C. of York
Follifoot Fire C. of York
1810. Wibsey Chapel, [collected 0. 0.]
Haworth Fire. [ „ 1. 0.]
1812. Froston Church in the County of York 750 0 0
Luddenden Chapel in the County of
York
1814. Dean Chapel in Com. York
1818. St. Ann's Chapel in Com. York
[collected] 6d.
Luddenden Chapel in Com. York
[collected! 6d.
1819. Saint John's Chapel in Com. York
Deanhead Chapel in Com. York
Doncaster Fire in Com. York
1820. Fylingdale's Church in Com. York
Thornton Chapel in Com. York
1821. Luddenden Chapel in Com. York
£ 8.
d.
1285 18
5
566 0
0
1706 14
1
567 10
9i
878 8
6
1161 18
6
670 14
8
578 12 10
k894 8
0
508 6
0
664 8
0
1064 10
8
2060 2
12 [sic]
888 14 *
9
1408 18
0
806 0
0
1255
15
0
580
11
4
989
7
9J
1055
14
9
478
4
10
428
8
11*
6000
0
0
885
18
2
882
6
0
946
8 10i
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. .195
Woodkirk in Com. York
SowerbyBridgeChapelinCom.York 4111
Kettlewell Church in Com. York
1828. Hampthwaste Church in Com. York
1£24. Deanhead Chapel in Com. York
Fylingdale's Church in Com. York
Drypool Church in Com. York
Calverley Mills Fire in Com. York
[collected] Is.
1825. Redcar Chapel in Com. York
[collected] Is.
Hampswaste Church in Com. York
Low Harrogate Church in Com. York
[collected] Is.
1827. Longwood Chapel in Com. York
It will be noticed that when the same place for which a
Collection is sought, has had its brief presented on several
occasions, the amount stated to be required gradually dimin-
ishes. Presumably the difference will show the total amount
received since the date on which the brief was formerly pre-
sented. To those who are interested in this subject full
information will be found in a paper by the late Cornelius
Walford, entitled — " Kings' Briefs : their purposes and history,1'
in vol. x. of the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.
Salterton, Devon. J. N. Brushfteld, M.D.
572 11
0
4111 4
iH
892 8
0
890 10
0
249 8
1*
661 18
0
1990 0
0
8856 16
0
1700 0
0
595 5
0
2000 0
0
417 5
3.'
Backing ^tcol.
The following note is by the late Mr. Wm. Turner, of Hopton :
" There was formerly a ducking stool in Mirneld. On the
9th June, 1818, Mr. Hirst and self saw old Wm. Swift, of
Quarry Hole (aged upwards of 87), who said he could remember
it very well but never knew it used. It stood a little nearer to
the church than where the pinfold now is. In the accounts of
Michael Sheard, who served the office .of constable as deputy
for Samuel Senior for a house at the sheep ings, in Hopton,
for part of the years 1719 and 1720, 1 find the following entry:
'For the cuck stool repairing 8s. 6d.'
The punishment of the ducking stool was formerly inflicted for
correction and cooling of scolds and unquiet women. It was
also anciently inflicted upon bakers and brewers,* offending
* In every Court Leet a person called an Ale-taster was formerly appointed
to look to the assize and goodness of Ale and Beer within the Lordship. In
the early Court Rolls of the Manor of Dewsbury of the time when Queen
Elizabeth was Lady of the Manor, there are many entries of persons having
brewed and sold Ale contrary to the assize, and who were therefore fined ijd.
(2d.) each. We find no entries of such persons having incurred the penalty
of the Ducking Stool, but possibly a more careful examination of the Rolls
196 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8.
against the laws. It was a kind of chair or stool, fixed at one
end of a long pole which hung over a pond of water, and swung
upon a bar or post somewhat like a balance, and the party
punished was fastened into the chair and immersed oyer head
and ears in the pond, and the more offensive the water pus
and the better.
This mode of punishment has been suffered to decay and be-
come almost obsolete, though there was one of those engines
existing at the end of Dawgreen, nearest to Dewsbury, about
the place where the dam or reservoir belonging to Mr. Todd's
oil mill is, within the memory of many persons now living.
Mr. Hirst of Hagg, can recollect seeing it when he was young."
(Extracts from tfr* Biarjj of ifr* &*b. I. f smag.
A chronological account of some memorable events in and
about Mirfield, &c.
1722. May 18th— Rippon den Flood.
1729. Nov. 19th— Bournans Flood.
1786. An apple tree near the Vicarage blossomed and set
for fruit nine times, and produced ripe fruit at five different
times this year, and what is very remarkable it was in blossom
on Xmas Day, and a red rose full blown, in the hedge by it.
1788. Dec. 80th— An earthquake felt at Mirfield. I per-
ceived my bed to rock, and the chamber to shake, at Kirklees,
where I then lived.
1789. Methodism first propagated at Mirfield, by Ben
Ingham, clerk.
A great frost which began on Christmas Day and lasted
9 weeks.
1740. April 26th. — A riot began at Dewsbury, where 1,500
and upwards were assembled, and prooeeded to Mirfield, <fec.
They mustered their crew and beat up their drum by the
Vicarage in Mirfield.
1740. Aug. 25th. — Buried Ann Holdsworth, of Little Lon-
don, aged 102. She could see to thread a needle, sew and knit
without spectacles.
which are very lengthy and difficult to read, may discover some reference to
this now obsolete instrument of justice.
A Court Leet is a Court of Record with power to punish offences against
the Crown. It is held in some large Manors, as the Manor of Wakefield,
and the Steward of the Manor is the Judge. The Lord of the Leet ought
formerly to have had a pillory and a Ducking Stool to punish offenders, but
these Courts are now nearly obsolete.
The word assize above mentioned means a statute or ordinance of Parlia-
ment.
Numerous acts of Parliaments were passed in former days regulating the
sale of Bread and Ale, and these were commonly known as the assize of
Bread and Ale.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 197
In January, died Mr. John Philips, of Thorner, near Leeds,
in the 101st year of his age.*
1741. Feby. 4. — A new market begun at Dewsbury.
1742. June 29th.— £2 lis. 8d. collected in the parish of
Mirfield for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
The Vicarage of Mirfield augmented a second time.
1748. June 22nd. — 102 persons confirmed at Wakefield
from the parish of Mirfield, by Dr. Thomas Herring, Arch-
bishop of York, (now of Canterbury.) •
Dec. 28rd. — A very splendid comet was seen, in the signs
Aries and Pisces, it continued visible to Feb. 20th.
1748. Dec. 11th. — (ye shortest day} 14 persons were pub-
lished in Mirfield Church, and 24 couples in ye year.
1744. An estate purchased at Ribston in Craven for ye per-
petual augmentation of the Vicarage of Mirfield.
Sept. 18th. — The harvest flood. A late frost which continued
till near Lady Day. Fruits of all sorts in abundance this year.
1745. Subscribed and paid by the inhabitants of Mirfield
towards ye maintenance of ye Yorkshire Buffs, £SS 14s. 6d.
A dividend of 12s. in ye pound was returned.
Nine persons were drowned in Calder near* Mirfield, from
Nov. 1789, to Dec. 1745.
Saturday, Nov. 80th. — Dies fuit memorabilia et tremebundus,
commonly called runaway Saturday, because a rumour was
spread thro' most towns in ye neighbourhood yt. the Rebels
were approaching them.
Sunday, Dec. 1st. — The people at Huddersfield, Mirfield, &c,
were put into a prodigious panic by ye Lancashire Militia
Officers, suspecting them to be Rebels. A wonlan at Hudders-
field was frightened to death with the report of the Rebels
approaching the place. The coal pits at Mirfield Moor and
other places were stocked with clothes and provisions, and this
day few women attending Divine Service for want of apparel,
when ye congregation were entertained with the finest notes of
a robin red breast I ever heard. The bird was both more
musical and familiar than at other times.
1745. Dec. 10th. — A detachment of Marshall Wade's army
proceed to Mirfield, but are suddenly recalled to ye camp at
Wakefield in order to march back to Leeds.
1745. Dec. 80. Carlisle surrendered to the Duke of Cumber-
land. Dec. 28. The cannons at Carlisle heard to Mirfield, 6}
minutes past 9. ( ! ! )
1746. Sept. — 15 young persons died of small pox in Mirfield
this month, and in ye whole 89.
A new tax upon windows.
1747. Orders for cattle read in Churches.
• Notice the difference in age, tee p. 186, Folk-Lore.
198 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
June 1st. — 86 persons from Mirfield confirmed at Wakefield.
Saturday, June 18. — Trinity flood. This was preceded by a
violent storm and lightning.
August 21st. — Died at Kirklees, Sir Samuel Armytage, Bart,,
aged 52.
Fine harvest weather and a plentiful crop, scanty of apples
and nut 8.
1748. A new stone wall erected on the north side of the
Moor. Locusts in Mirfield and other parts of this kingdom.
July 14th. — A great solar eclipse.
1742. August 7th. — An extraordinary Aurora Borealis at
Mirfield.
July 9th. — A remarkable whirlwind near the Vicarage.
1750. A violent storm of thunder and lightning at Mirfield.
22nd. — A fiery meteor. A hot dry summer at Mirfield.
This year has been remarkable for earthquakes and ye A.
Borealis.
February 26th. — A violent storm of wind and rain.
1751. A wet summer and late harvest.
1752. January. — A great snow this month for 11 days
together.
1758. March. — A great wind for 8 days together.
June. — Riots about turnpikes in Yorkshire.
1754. Feb. 26th.— A meteor seen at Mirfield.
April 19. The shock of an earthquake felt at Mirfield,
Leeds, York, &c.
A hard frosty winter, a cold sharp spring, a wet summer and
a fine autumn.
Chin cough And small-pox in Mirfield.
Eatables of all sorts extravagantly dear in ye spring.
1755. Multitudes of earwigs about the houses in Mirfield
and other places. A very wet and cold summer, harvest and
autumn.
Oct. 15th. — Gave tickets to 182 persons to be confirmed at
Halifax by Dr. Edward Keen, Bishop of Chester, who confirmed
2,600.
Nov. — Several acres of land in and about Mirfield, rendered
too wet and incapable of being sown with wheat this season.
1758. 21 children died of small pox and only 2 of chin
cough.
1754. Of ye small-pox and chin cough 11.
1755. Nov. 1st. — A most dreadful and extensive earthquake
in Portugal and various parts of Europe.
Several ponds and lakes violently agitated in many parts of
England.
1756. Tempests, storms, hurricanes, thunder, lightning,
and other Phenomena have never been known so frequent
throughout Great Britain as in the winter 1755-6.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 199
Feb. 6th. — Fast day for the earthquakes at Lisbon.
Feb. 14th. — Died Mrs. Eltoff, of Ledstone, Yorkshire, aged
114, she retained her senses till within a few hours of her death.
Feb. 28th. — Died 6. Wilcock, Bishop of Rochester, &e.
May 8th. — Fairs opened in Yorkshire for ye sale of horned
cattle, being prohibited for upwards of nine years.
May 18th. — War declared against ye French in London.
May 25th. — War proclaimed against ye French at Leeds.
June 4th. — A most violent storm of hail, &c.
16th. — War declared against ye English by the French.
24th. — Much lightning in ye evening, it continued for some
time in a continual blaze at Mirfield.
May 28th.— The Port of St. Philips in the Island of Minorca
surrendered to the French.
July 5th. — Apple and Plum trees in blossom a second time
this year in my garden.
July 22nd. — The Marine Society Instituted in London. The
price of wheat began to advance, which occasioned mobs to
arise in different parts of ye kingdom.
Oct. 7th. A very extraordinary and extensive hurricane
about 1 in the morng.
Nov. 25th. — Died Mr. Thos. Clarke, Rector of Eirkheaton
and Swillington, aged 81.
1757. March 14th. — Admiral Byng shot on board ye Mon-
arque.
16th. — A great hurricane of wind at Liverpool, Chester, &c,
by which much damage was done by sea and land.
19th. — Died in ye Parish of Tadcaster, John Shepherd, aged
109. He had lived in a cave on Bramham Moors many years.
Sept. — Riots in several places about the Militia Act.
26th. — A Comet appears about this time.
80th.— Died at Bath, David Hartley, M.D. and F.R.S., aged
58.
Sept. 15. — A great riot at Manchester.
Oct. 19th. — Died at Constantinople, Sultan Osman, Grand
Bignor and Emperor of the Turks.
Seven battles fought by ye King of Prussia this year, besides
ye siege of Prague and a great number of skirmishes.
A very droughty hot summer.
All sorts of grain and provisions at an excessive and extra-
vagant price.
1758. Jan. 29th. — Died at Moor Town, near Leeds, James
Goodrich, aged 104.
A new workhouse erected and opened in Mirfield, in May.
An Act of Parliament obtained, for extending ye navigation
of ye river thro' Mirfield to Sowerby Bridge.
Aug. 9th.— A Confirmation at Wakefield by the Bishop of
St. Asaph.
200 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
22nd. —The new Market house for coloured cloth was opened
at Leeds.
* July 27th. — A great flood about Wig ton, in Cumberland.
Nov. 26th. — A remarkable meteor seen at Newcastle, &c.
Dec. 29th. — A ball of fire seen at Colchester, moving N.E.
Deo. 20th.— Died at E aland, Mr. Rd. Detly, aged 58. In
this memorable and glorious year we had a plentiful crop, and
have seen ye British Flag restored to its Ancient dignity, by
being victorious in almost every part of ye world.
1759. A dry Summer and Autumn.
A malignant fever in Mir field, which continued six years.
Jan. 27th.— An Ox was lately. killed at Lowther Hall, which
weighed 84 stone and a quarter, and had 19 stone of tallow
taken out of him.
July 5th. — A parhelion seen about the setting of the sun at
Mirfield.
Sept. 2nd. — Died at Thornhill, Mr. Samuel Sandford, Rector
of ye Church.
Nov. 4th. — Died of a singular malady, Mr. Wm. Turner, of
Blakehill, aged 46, Mirfield.
Nov. 10th. — An hurrican of wind at Mirfield.
A dry Summer.
Deo. 81st. — A lunar iris observed from my door at the Vicarage
Great and glorious conquest made by ye British Troops in
America.
1760. Jan. 16th. — A child shot by an accident at Mirfield.
A hot droughty summer; there was ye greatest mortality
this year in Mirfield that has happened since that of 1681,
(?1681), when the plague raged in this parish. Many persons
were cut off in their full strength, and some in ye vigour and
bloom of their age, by an eruptive epidemical fever, which
seized upon me the 5th September, and confined me to my bed
for ye space of ye 14 days, my life being in great danger from
ye violence of ye distemper.
May 9th. — Died at Hermuth in Silesia, Count Zinzendorff,
founder and head of ye Moravian sect. His son consecrated
the conventicle at WeUhouse, in Mirfield, 16th March, 1755.
Oct. 25th.— Died E. George 2nd, in the 77th year of his age,
and 84th of his reign.
26th. — K. George 3rd proclaimed.
Sep. 19th. — Effect of a most surprising flow of water at
Brackenthwaite, in Cumberland.
1761. Jan. 1st.— A dreadful hurricane of wind at the N.W.
in ye night.
11th.— Died of a lingering illness, Mr. Joseph Wheeler, Vicar
of Dewsbury.
9th.— The quarter Sessions appointed to be held at Wakefield
were postponed on account of the epidemical distemper raging
in that town.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 201
29th.— Died at Mirfield, Mr. Edward Darly, Attorney at Law,
aged 84.
April 80th. — (Ascen. Day) I read ye Divine Service and
christened 19 children at ye font in Mirfield Gh. before dinner.
1762. Feb. 21st. — Shrove Tuesday. A dreadful tempest of
wind and snow p.m., by ye severity of which many persons
perished.
Jnly 14th. — A violent storm of thunder, hail, &c, at Kirklees
and its environs. The hailstones were as large as pigeon's
eggs, measuring three or four inches, by which great damage
was done to corn, fruit, and windows. An excessive droughty
summer, this month and last ye drought and heat of ye season
was so great that several moors and peat mosses took fire and
burnt underground for many miles together.
An intense frost began Dec. 28rd, 1762, and continued to
Jan. 29th, 1768.
Feb. 10th, 11th, 12th. — A great fall of snow with a severe frost.
Mar. 22nd. — Peace proclaimed in London.
May 18th.— Do. at Mirfield.
14th. — A B. of York confirms at Wakefield, and treats ye
clergy. 78 persons confirmed from this Parish. Three floods
in Mirfield in Christmas* week.
1768. An excessive wet summer.
Turnpike road made through Mirfield.
1764. The river through Mirfield made navigable.
Feb. 26th, 27th.— A great fall of snow.
Mar. 4th. — An illumination from E. to S.
April 1st. — A great solar eclipse.
May 11th. — A B. of York's primary visitation of ye clergy.
He treats ye clergy.
Oct. 11th. — The Archdeacon's visitation at Wakefield.
1768. The yew tree now growing near the south-east corner
of the churchyard was planted by Thos. Sherrd, clerk, 5th
Nov., 1678, as appears by an entry in the parish register.
The other two (yew trees) are so very ancient that no man
living can remember them in a youthful state.
Some Account of the Parish of Mirfield (by Mb. Ismat),
to a Friend in Cumberland.
1756.
Mirfield, ager ad ericetum, a manor lying near a heath or
moor, as ager eboracensis, Yorkshire. The parish is situated
on the sides of two hills, between which a fine river runs
through it.
Over the river, which is called Galder, are two bridges, one
of them stands on eight wooden piers, and measures above 282
feet in length.
202 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
There are three corn mills here, and the same number for
pulling of broad cloth, which is manufactured here and in the
neighbouring towns. This is a large populous village, and, in
general, is well built. It is bounded on the North by the
parish of Birstal, to the South by the parishes of Thornhill
and Kirkheaton, and to the East by Dewsbury, and to the
West by the Parochial Chapelry of Hartshead.
It is about two miles in breadth from W. to E., two and a
half miles from N. to S.; and in circumference near eight
miles. It is divided into six hamlets, and contains about 8,000
acres of land, viz : 2,000 of arable, 400 of waste or common,
and 600 of woodland. Sir George Savile, of Rufford, Notts.,
Bart., is Lord of the Manor. There is a fair or feast on
Ascension Day, held near the Vicarage. The price of provision
is variable. Wheat is sold at present for 19s. 6d. per load, t.f.
24 gallons, which is your Cumberland bushel. It is sold at 4s.
0d. statute measure, three of which makes your Wakefield load.
Barley is at 20s. per quarter ; Oatmeat is £1 ds. 6d. per load.
i.e. 58. per bushel, or 15s. the Cumberland bushel.
The load consists of 9 strokes, containing 86 gall., which is
one bushel and a half of your measure. Beef is from 2±d. to
3d. per lb. ; mutton and veal about the same price at different
seasons of the year ; butter from 5d. to 6d., and cheese from
3d. to 4d. per lb.
The number of houses are about 405, and allowing 5 persons
to each house, the number of inhabitants will be 2,175. Land
is let in general for about 30s. per acre, taxes included. A
roasting pig is sold for 2s. ; a turkey and goose at Christmas
2s. 6d. each ; a green goose Is. and Is. 6d. or Is. 8d. at the
latter end of the harvest ; chickens 4d. generally ; a hen 7d.
and ducks 8d. Agistment or pasture for cows and fat cattle is
35s. or £2. Hay is 2 id. or 3d. per stone, or sometimes 6d.
Much Clover is grown in the parish and made into hay. There
is no copyhold land, but upwards of 40 freeholders in the
parish. Day labouring men's wages is 12d., carpenters and
masons Is. 3d. tailors 6d. and their victuals ; men servants for
husbandry 7d., clothiers 5d., maids about 50s. per annum.
There are about 100 pair of looms for weaving of broad cloth,
200 persons employed in making of cloth, 400 in carding,
spinning, and preparing wool for the looms, consequently no
less than 600 persons are employed in the woollen manufacture
carried on in this place.
The Church is not large, but it has two aisles and two
galleries, which in the summer season can but just contain ye
number of persons tbat attend divine worship. It was enlarged,
and the N. side new built in the year 1666.
It is now 74 feet long and 89 in width. There is a tower
steeple 47 feet high, which contains eight musical bells, which
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were east and hang about SO years ago. They were increased
from three to eight by Daniel Heddersley, in 1725, and are
now as fine a ring of bells as any in ye county of their weight.
The steeple is 47 feet to the battlements, and 57± ft. to the top
of the pinnacles. The mottoes on ye bells are, "peace and
good neighbourhood." " When you hear me sound let peace
and unity be found, 1726."
There is an inscription in ye western wall near ye font,
which shows that the plague raged with great violence in 1681.
There are no remarkable monuments of any illustrious
persons in the church. One of ye Nuns of Kirklees Monastery
was interred here Feb. 5th, 1561, as appears by the parish
register. Dr. John Hopton, who was made Bishop of Norwich
in 1554, was born at Mirfield, as we may learn from ye history
of that prelate's life.
On a Table erected in 1745, is a list of ye pious and charit-
able benefactions to ye church, school, and poor of ye parish
of Mirfield.
The arms of the Hoptons, Saviles, Mirfields, &c, are curiously
painted in ye East Window. There is a large candlestick con-
sisting of 12 branches, and 8 more on the reading desk, with a
carious font made in 1662. There are upwards of 70 tombs
and gravestones in church and churchyard, with sepulchral
inscriptions too long to insert.
The Church is in the honour of Pontefract, Diocese of York,
hundred of Agbrig and the deanery of Pontefract, dedicated to
8t. Mary, built 494 years ago, and consecrated to be a Chapel
of ease under Dewsbury in 1261. It continued in subjection
to its Mother Church, All Saint's, in Dewsbury, (where it is
said Paulinus, the first Archbishop of York, preached and
celebrated divine service,) till 1802, being the space of 41 years.
Pope Urban 4th, at the request of Sir John Heton, Kt., made
it parochial, and vested the right of nomination in Sir John,
who presented his younger son to the living. He was the first
Rector, built the parsonage house or manse, and died 1802.
Wm. Cressacre was the 2nd Rector, who died in 1808.
The next we have upon record is Wm. Willinge, who died
in 1402. After the death of this incumbent, the predial tithes
were alienated from the church and given to the [monks?] of
Kirklees to pray for the soul of John Burgh. This Church
continued a Kectory for the space of 141 years, and then was
reduced to a small Vicarage to aggrandize monkery and support
a nest of drones. It remained in this poor distressed condition
for the space of 8 centuries, till it was relieved by a parochial
subscription which obtained the Queen's Bounty about 85 years
ago, and invested in land for a perpetual augmentation.
It was augmented a second time by a lady's benefaction and
the bounty in 1642, since which time it received £100, the
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donation of Sir Geo. Armytage, late of Kirklees, Bart., and
about £7 lis. per annum in houses and land given by ye late
Mrs. Ann Horsfall, by a deed bearing date Oct. 80th, 1787*
duly enrolled in Chancery. It devolved to the Church in 1749.
The names of the Vicars as appears by the registers are as
follows : — Sir John Chrissmor, buried Feb. 18th, 1668.
Sir Richard Wordsworth, buried Nov. 1677.
Antony Crowther inducted March, 1668, and buried Aug.
81st, 1628. He had five sons and one daughter, and was Vicar
of Mirfield 60 years.
Eichard Senior inducted Sept. 1st, 1628, buried Oct. 25th,
1689.
Eobert AUenson inducted Dec. 21st, 1689, buried Dec. 8th,
1676. He enlarged the N. side of the church, and was buried
at Cumberworth, where he had been Minister. He was 87
years Vicar of Mirfield, and had five children.
John Gibson inducted Dec. 12th, 1677, he resigned ye vicar-
age for the Rectory of Kirkby.
Thomas Gledhill succeeded Mr. Gibson, and was buried Dec.
20th, 1687. He left a widow and two daughters.
Richard Margerison, A.M., was inducted June 14th, 1688.
He was baptized at Birstal Church, and buried at Mirfield,
where he had been Vicar 27 years, on the 10th of Jan., 1716.
He left three children who all arrived to maturity. He died in
the 58rd year of his age.
Thos. Hardy was inducted May 16th, 1706, and was buried
19th Dec, 1789, Vicar 28 years. He left a widow and three
sons, the oldest then a student at Cambridge, who had a good
living given him by the Earl of Winchelsea, (Burleigh, Rutland-
shire,) but he did not live to enjoy it. The second son is a
bookseller in London, and is in good circumstances. The third
has been twice in the East Indies, and is now with Admiral
West in ye English Navy. The widow is still living at Mirfield
and receives ye Bounty.
The present Vicar, J. Ismay, B.A., was inducted Jan. 28th,
1789, O. 8. in the presence of his worthy patron, Sir Saml.
Armytage, late of Kirklees, Bart., then High Sheriff of ye
County. The living is worth now about £75 per annum to the
Vicar. The present patron is Sir John Armytage, Bart., Mem-
ber of Parliament for ye City of York, who is now upon bis
travels in Italy. He is impropriator or lay rector of Mirfield,
and receives 200 guineas per annum for tithe of corn, and of
money made for hay, besides a considerable sum for tithe of
wood cut down in the parish.
The Parish Register began in 1689, when there were no
dissenters in the parish and is continued in one single parch-
ment book to this present year, 1766. It escaped the confusion
of the civil wars, and is perhaps as perfect and complete as
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any one register in England. There are 100 marriages, 889
christenings, and 220 burials in the first 20 years ; 296 marri-
ages, 1,165 christenings, and 612 burials in the last 20 years
as appears by the register.
On the BOth Dee., 1788, a sudden and violent earthquake
was felt at Mirfield and in the neighbourhood. I perceived
my bed at Kirklees rock, and the chamber shake so much that
I expected the whole house would have fallen. Being surprised
with the shock I awaked my brother who lay with me that
night, but he felt nothing of it.
From the high ground in Hopton, especially the great
pinnacle, on a clear day I have seen into 12 parishes at least,
with 8 Parochial Chapelery's. From thenoe ye enclosed fields
in Mirfield make one grand parterre, the thick planted hedge-
rows seem like a wilderness or a labyrinth, the houses inter-
persed look like so many noble seats of gentlemen at a distance.
The nature of ye soil in ye parish being of such different
kinds produces perhaps as great a variety of plants as are to
be found in any part of Great Britain of the same extent. I
have met with 250 sorts of wild plants growing spontaneously
in the wood, field, pastures, and waste grounds, besides a
curious collection transplanted into my garden at the vicarage
from other parts. The poisonous plants found here are the
cicuta or the lesser hemlock, the common nightshade, black
henbane, cynocrambe, the yew tree, &c. The berries of the
last are frequently eaten here without any ill consequence, but
the fatal effect of the leaves to cattle was fully confirmed on
Easter Monday, 1754, when 2 young heifers near the vicarage
were poisoned by eating them.
The front of Castle Hall, an old building near the church, is
adorned with a great number of hieroglyphics curiously carved
in wood, and the letters T.B. and the numerical figures 1,022
about the middle of the large window. There is a Danish
Mount behind the house with a plain piece of ground at the
top 69 ft. in diameter. I can meet with nothing in the whole
parish yet which wears the face of antiquity, besides 8 or 4 old
studded buildings, much talked of by the vulgar for their great
age, though without any authentic marks of authority besides
ancient tradition and the curious fragments of painted glass in
the windows of one of these old mansions.
Here is a free Charity School, founded by Mr. R. Thorpe,
late of Hopton Hall, 1667, at Knowle Lane, with a dwelling-
house for the Master, and a salary of about £12 per annum.
Near the school are the vestiges of a large round entrench-
ment resembling that near Penrith, called King Arthur's round
table.
Here is a Workhouse for the poor, though it is only rented
by ye parish.
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Blake Hall is supposed to be the ancient seat of the Hoptons,
and Castle Hall the seat of Sir John Heton, Kt., ye 1st parson
of the church, now the property of Richard Beaumont, of
Whitley Hall, Esqre. Castle Hall stands very near the church,
whence that proverbial saying: — He is John Armytage's Neighbour,
i.e. he is dead. Sir John Heton, Kt., married ye oldest daughter
of Sir Alexander Nevile de Mirfield.
Robert Hop ton, of Hopton, Esqre., married Jennet, daughter
of Henry Savile, Esqre.
Robin Hood's gravestone, and the ruins of a Benedictine
Nunnery founded anno 1286, and dedicated to St. Mary, are to
be seen on ye N.W. side of the parish near Nun Brook.
The latitude of Mirfield is 58° 42*" N., the longitude about
1° 81" W. of London, it stands about 80 miles S.W. of York.
The soil is of various sorts. We have sand, clay, stone, and
gravel. Our lands produce all sorts of grains to great per-
fection. The manure is dung, lime and ashes ; rapes, wolds,
and turnips are frequently sown in the parish, they with
potatoes are titheable to the Yicar. There are many good
quarries of hard durable stone for building, very good earth for
bricks, and great plenty of coal which is usually sold for 2s.
the horse load at the pit mouth, and it is common in the
meanest cot to see a good fire. The springs are generally
found at various depths in the parish, and the water is very
sweet and soft in most places except near ye coal, and there it
is a little hard and brakish. We have, I believe, as fine an air
as any in England. It is generally healthy, and the inhabitants
in general live to a great age, especially the poorer sort who
use proper exercise and enjoy the benefit of it.
The present Yicar has buried no less than 92 persons each
of them aged 80 years and upwards, whereof 8 arrived at 90
and upwards, and one at 102.
There are 2 dissenting meeting houses in the parish, one for
the Presbyterians and the other for the Moravian Brethren,
they are both small and inconsiderable. Mirfield is situated
about the middle of the road between the towns of Wakefield
and Halifax, but there is yet no turnpike. The Gentlemen's
Seats bordering on the parish are Kirklees, Whitley Hall, and
Grow Mount. The Aurora Borealis is very common, and par-
ticularly one on the 7th of April, 1749.
The dams across the river are in the nature of cataracts, and
are a sort of catadupes by which the inhabitants form a prog-
nostication of the weather. The river produces salmon, trout,
smelts, graylings, daice, perch, eels, chubs, barbies, gudgeons,
&c, wild ducks, wigeon, teal, coots, and several sorts of water
hens are seen about the river in winter, especially in a great
frost.
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The great speckled loon or diver was shot here Sept. 20th,
1749, and was the only one perhaps ever seen in this country.
When mists appear to rise or fall on Whitley Wood or (Swindon
Hill) which stands npon high ground, the people in Mirfield
thereby prognosticate of the change of the weather, singing
this rhyme : —
If Whitley Wood wears a cap
Balance Beck will smart for that,
If Swindon Hill wears a cap
Balance Beck must pay for that.
When the sun appears over ye temple of Swindon Hill, it is
12 o'clock at the Vicarage. The following inscription was
formerly over the door of the Mansion House of the Hirsts in
Mirfield: — "Know whom you trust. Robert Hirst, 1656."
Over the door at Wellhouse: — G.B.H. i.e. God be here or
about tins house. Hunting, fishing, shooting, add setting are
diversions mostly used. We have hares, woodcocks, snipes,
wood pigeons, plovers, quails, daker-hens or the land-rail,
water-rails, red-wings, fieldfares, woodpeckers, jays, nightin-
gales, and most of the small birds known in England.
We have some pheasants in the wood, but the breed is in a
great measure destroyed.
We have a variety of plants in the woods, one of which is
called the Garden of Eden. We had a fiery meteor passed over
this place July 22nd, 1750. An earthquake in 1754, and often
much damage done by the floods.
Yours,
J. ISMAY.
Hamlets in the Parish of Mirfield l9 1755.
Number of houses in the parish of Mirfield in 1739 :-
In Towngate Hamlet - - - 058
„ Leegreen ,, - - - 108
„ Northorpe „ ... 044
„ Easthorpe „ - - 077
„ Far Side Moor Hamlet - - 088
„ Hopton „ - - 082
Total 452
Increase of houses in 18 years, 195. Inhabitants increased
at 5 per house, 695. Do. at 6 per house, 750, as appears by
my calculation, Jan. 27th, 1759.
J. ISMAY.
Sir Bichard Weston, of Sutton place, first brought ye plant-
ing of clover grass out of Flanders into England about ve year
1660.
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There generally dies in the parish of Mirfield one person in
70 annually, as appears by an accurate calculation, about one
marriage per annum among 100 persons.
The number of christenings generally is double to the burials
in the year, the congregation at Church (which is made up
mostly of the male kind, there being generally nine men to a
woman) is much smaller in winter than the summer season,
and especially in the forenoons.
Hay seeds were sold in 1766 for 1/6 and 2/- the sack. Rape
dust at 2/6 a quarter in 1757.
1755. — Agriculture in Mirfield.
Tillage is ye most ancient and honourable employment in ye
world. The soil being of very different natures, produces all
sorts of grain. Wheat and rye called hard corn are sown in
great plenty, barley, oats of various sorts, peas, beans, vetches,
rapes, and turnips, with wolds for ye dyers are frequently sown
in Mirfield. Clover was introduced into this parish about 60
years ago, and turnips for the feeding of cattle began to be
sown in fields much later, and are great improvers of land ;
another good piece of husbandry here is ye draining of wet
lands, and turning the water over ye dry ground designed for
hay or pasture ; in ye winter and spring time some sour marshy
grounds are made arable by spading the turf from the surface
and then burning it in heaps ; this is called pairing or burning,
and generally yields a plentiful crop of wheat or rapes ye first
year without any other manure than ye turf ashes.
For stiff lands there is no better manure than lime and coal
ashes, this is looked on to be an excellent compost, better
mixed than laid on separately.
We have very little common field land. The advantages
arising from inclosures have been long experienced in this
parish. The fence is white thorn, and thrives greatly with us,
being often cut and kept in repair.
The other manure that we improve land with besides cow
and horse dung, lime and cold ashes, is soot, soap ashes, and
rape dust, but these last are used only by a few persons in this
place, and that but seldom.
The room next to the garden at Castle Hall is ceiled over
the top, with ancient plaster work representing variety of
figures, viz.: — fir cones, acorns, flower de luces, roses, etc.,
with the Beaumont's paternal coat of arms (about the centre)
quartered with another, charged with rabbits or coneys, but to
what family these belong I know not.
I have since found by an MSS. in ye possession of my good
friend Richard Frank of Campsall, Esqre., F.S.A., that the
Turtons of Smallhaigh and Millhouse in ye parish of Penistone,
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had for their arms A 8 Conies sejant S. (Sejant in heraldry
means upright.)
Northorpe Hall was rebuilt by Josiah Sheard, Tenant, in
1701, as appears by the figures covered over the door ; here
are in the windows some curious remains of painted glass, viz :
Christ's presentation in the temple, with a venerable old man
representing Moses, etc. The house adjoining this ancient
building was rebuilt by Edward Thomas, as appears by these
letters and figures over ye chimney piece, in ye kitchen, £. T.,
1704.
Mirfield is divided into six hamlets, each of which has a
viacurus or surveyor of the highways, annually chosen by the
Parish, A.D. 1755.
Towngate Hamlet.
The church parsonage and vicarage stand in this hamlet ;
an old studded building near the church called Castle Hall,
built in 1022-1066, with a Danish Mount behind the house ;
Upperhall the property of Mr. Richard Shepley, who rebuilt it.
The streets, lanes, and highways in Towngate: — Kimlane,
Dunbottle, High Lane, Church Lane, Cross Green Lane, etc.
Here are four public houses, viz: — The Pack Horse, Eight
Bells, and the Horns, two blacksmiths, and two shops for
groceries.
Lee Green Hamlet.
This hamlet contains Lee Green, Little London, Moorside
to Foxroid, Gibhole, Wellhouse, Matchcroft, Nickhouse, and
Oreenside.
Ways to be mentioned are the great highroad over Mirfield
Moor to Robert-town nr. Dewyard Lane, Wood Lane, and the
Lane between that and Matchcroft, Water Boyd Lane, etc.
Here are 8 public houses, viz.: — The Three Rungs, The Swan,
and the Red Lion. Three Butchers* Shops, two Grocers, and
a Moravian Meeting House, with a Workhouse for the poor.
Northorpe Hamlet.
Northorp, an old house which has been rebuilt, contains
some curious remains of painted glass in the windows, and is
still called Northorp Hall.
Shillbank, here are some good modern buildings, near which
is the late Dr. Bolderstone's, etc. Northbar, Crossley, Field
Head, Pate Lane, etc.
The roads are that leading to Nickhouse, Shill Bank Lane,
that from Crossley, Dall Lane, Gill Lane, etc. Akeroid Lane
is only a Bridle Lane, and not repaired by any public.
Ravens thorp Lane is maintained by the parish, here are two
ale-houses, a bowling green, a blacksmith's shop, and one for
coffee and tea. There's a saddler's shop in Shillbank Lane,
and an attorney's office. The alehouses are the Hare and
Hounds and the Cock.
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E as thorp Hamlet.
The Low Mill, Blake Hall, a handsome new building, the
property of William Turner, Esq. Easthorpe Lane, consisting
of Water Hall, an ancient studded building. Flash House*
another old fabric, and several modern ones. Fold Head,
Legard Mill, Littlemoor, Snakehill, and Eastcliffe Bank, Knowl
Lane, Knowl School, and Knowl. The ways are the great
Low Road, Knowl Lane, etc. Here are three alehouses, viz: —
The Black Bull, ye Horse and Jockey, and the Cock ; two corn
and fulling mills, two grocers and drapers, an apothecary, the
free school, and around the entrenchment vulgarly called
Kirkstead by it. Easthorpe, Villa arabilis.
Far Side Moor Hamlet.
Nabstocks Bank, West Mills, Cinderhill (built by Thos. Sharp
in 1638), Bracken Hall, Nunbrook, near it is Robin Hoods
Sepulchral Monument, and the ruins of a Benedictine Nunnery.
Yew Tree, an old studded building. Mock Beggar and Roe
Head, two good farm houses, the long range of houses is
called Ratton Row. The Warren House stands upon a high
spot of ground, near which appears ye butts, which were much
resorted to when ye long bow was in use in England. Here is
one road to Leeds, two to Wakefield, besides a cross causeway
to ye mill. Here are three alehouses, viz.: — The 8 Nuns, a
Wooden Head, and the Virgin's Inn; one blacksmith, one
butcher, and a grocer's shop with linen and woollen drapery.
Hopton Hamlet.
Liley, Windy Bank, this house stands upon ye highest
ground in Hopton, except the great pinnacle, Cuckoo Hill,
New Hall, Row Houses, Brier Knowles, Hagg, Hunger Hill,
terra sterilis, Threaproyd i.e. terra lilis, Boat House, Sheep
Tug, Tithe Laithe, Han Bank, Hollin Hall, Hopton Hall
Galverts Clough. This hamlet consists of a great number of
odd houses interspersed among the woods, hills and valleys,
some of which retain their old names as above mentioned.
The roads consist mostly of lanes, thro' different parts of ye
hamlet. Here is a Presbyterian Meeting House commonly
called a Chapel, two blacksmiths, three grocers, one butcher,
and one alehouse.
There are 40 pairs of looms for weaving of white broad cloth
in the hamlet only.
There are a great many springs and woods, viz.: — Oliver
Car, Jordan Roid, Liley Wood, Gregory Spring, Whitley Wood,
Hagg Wood, Balance Wood, Briery Bank, Chadwick Wood,
Crow Wood, Little Hagg, Liley Range, Hepworth Wood, Ac.
These woods produce such a number of medicinal plants, that
one of them has got the denomination of the Garden of Eden.
Here is employment for the Botanist in summer, and game
for the Sportsman in the winter season.
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The nature of the soil is various, here is sand, clay, stone,
gravel, Ac. The lands consist of woods, arable pasture,
meadow, &c, some of which are firm and some fenny or
moorish.
As to the appearance of this Hamlet, it is mostly hilly,
rocky, or mountainous, except the land near the river. There
are some excellent springs, plenty of coal, stone, and oak wood.
The clay in Mirfield is generally of a yellowish colour, hut
there is Borne at the bottom of Mr. Turner's quarry in Hopton,
of a blueish colour and exceedingly fine grain. It is remark-
able that the Vicar, Churchwardens, Master and Scholars of
the Free School, &c, in Mirfield, walk thro' the middle of a
garden, yard, and barn, belonging to a farm house in Kirk-
heaton Parish, in their perambulations in Kogation Week,
when it is customary to go round the bounds and limits of the
parish to beg a blessing on the fruits of the earth, and preserve
the rights and properties of their parish.
The men and the boys in Hopton employ themselves in the
Christmas holidays in hunting the squirrel, which gives them
violent exercise in the woods, and affords them excellent
diversion.
The dwellings at and about Hopton Hall are increased in
less than 40 years, from three to eloven ; inhabitants, from 17
to 80, as appears by an exact calculation of a person who
formerly lived there, and is now (1755) in the 82nd year of his
age.
Some boggy wet ground in Hopton, consisting of black earth
upwards of 12 ft. deep.
The following inscription is painted in red character over
the north door at Hopton Hall, with the order of letters and
the words inverted, and, as in Hebrew, read from right to left :
Jehovah Nisi, i.e. The Lord my banner, 1695, Ex. 17, 15.
Buddie or red chalk found in a quarry near New Hall, in
Hopton.
About 2 years ago only 8 families lived on ye N. side of Lee
Green (between Gibhole and Little London,) but now the
number of families amount to 28, and more new buildings are
about to be erected.
Crawfish in a small brook by Briery Bank in Hopton.
Jackroid, this affords an extensive prospect as well as ye great
pinnacle and Windy Bank before mentioned.
Btomxfs ftorksljire 8*nttr*s.
Thomas Blount was a barrister of the Temple, who lived in
the seventeenth century. He was a voluminous writer, his
works being chiefly connected with his profession. His best-
known work is called "Fragmenta Antiquitatis, or Jocular
212 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Tenures;1* it was first published in 1679, a new edition was
published in 1784, edited by Josiah Beokwith, another in 1815,
edited by Hercules Malebysse Beck with, son of the former
editor; a fourth edition was published in 1874, edited by Mr.
W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.
Aislaby. — Richard, son of Wyde de Aslabie, holds two earn-
cates of land by the service of teaching one hare- dog (liverius)
belonging to the King.
[M.S. penes Sam. Roper, arm.] Hare-dog, " canem liveri-
um," perhaps the same with " leporarium," from the French,
lievre. J. Beckwith.
Athwick-(Adwicx)-upon-Deakne. — William Clarell formerly
did fealty, and acknowledged that he held the Manor of
Adthwyk, and paid every two years towards keeping the castle
(of Tick hill) each year seven shillings and fourpence, and every
third year eight shillings, and ten shillings to keep a hawk ;
and he said that Hugh Carson, every third year, paid fourteen-
pence for his tenement in Athewyk.
[Ex. vel. Rot. Feodar, Honoris de Tickhill, penes F. F.
Foljambe, arm.] Hawke, " osterer." Probably miscopied for
"ostercum," a gos-hawk, and observe, that Francis F.Foljambe,
esq., is now seized of a rent of 4s. 8d. issuing out of lands at
Mexbrough, the adjoining township, every third year, by the
name of " Hawk-silver." H. M. Beckwith.
Bainton. — In the second year of King Edward II., Peter de
Mauley was found to be seized of the Manor of Bainton, with
the advowson of the church, by the service of finding two
knights and four esquires in the King's army for forty days in
time of war, and to provide a steward to do suit for him at the
King's Court at York, from six weeks to six weeks.
[Escalt. 8. Ed. II., no. 84.]
Babnby. — Dionysis, daughter and heiress of Robert de Cropp-
ing, holds one toft and four oxgangs of land, with the appurten-
ances, in Barneby, near Pocklington, by the service of finding
part of one archer (partem unius sagitt') within the King's
Castle of York, for forty days in the time of war. — 11 Richard
II.
[De term. Hil., ann. 11. Ric. II., rot. 1.]
Bently. — Richard Scrope holds the manor of Bently, with
its members, for four knight's fees, and pays yearly, at the
Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, for castle-guard, twenty
shillings; and at the Purification of the Blessed Mary, six
shillings and eightpence ; and at the Feast of Easter, for meat
to the watchmen, eightpence, and aid to the Sheriff, two
shillings and sixpence ; and at the Feast of the Nativity of St.
John the Baptist, for castle-guard, twenty shillings ; and at the
Feast of St. Michael, for meat to the watchmen, eightpence,
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 218
and for aid to the Sheriff, two shillings and sixpence ; and does
suit to the Count from three weeks to three weeks.
[Ex prcedicto Eot. Feodar.]
This manor afterwards belonged to Adam de Newmarch ; and
19th Eliz., 1577, to Francis Wyndham, Esq., and was held by
the same services.
[Betnrn of a Commission to enquire concerning the Honor
of Tickhill, dated 28th June, 19 Eliz.]
The heirs of John Annesly hold one knight's fee of the said
four knight's fees, and pay to the Castle of Tickhill, at the
Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Mary, twelve pence,
and more eightpence half-penny.
[Ex prcedicto Rot. Feodar.]
Bradford. — This manor belonged to John of Gaunt, who
granted to John Northrop of Manningham, an adjoining village,
and his heirs, three messuages and six bovates of land, to come
to Bradford, on the blowing of a horn on St. Martin's Day in
winter, and wait on him and his heirs, in their way from
Blackburnshire, with a lance and hunting-dog for thirty days,
to have for yeoman's board, one penny for himself and a half-
penny for his dog, &c, for going with the receiver or bailiff to
conduct him safe to the Castle of Pontefract. A descendant of
Northrop afterwards granted land in Horton to Bushworth, of
Horton, another adjoining village, to hold the bound while
Northrop's man blew the horn. These are called "Hornman"
or "Hornblow " lands, and the custom is still kept up : a man
coming into the market-place with a horn, halbert and dog, is
met by the owner of tbe lands in Horton. After proclamation
made, the former calls out aloud, " Heirs of Bushworth, come
hold me my hound, whilst I blow three blasts of my horn, to
pay the rent due to our " Sovereign Lord the King." He then
delivers the string to the man from Horton, and winds his
horn thrice. The original horn, resembling that of Tutbury in
Staffordshire, is still preserved, though stripped of its silver
ornaments.
[Gough's Camd. Brit. edit. 1789, vol. iii., p. 45.]
Braithweix. — In the seventh year of the reign of King
Richard II., 1888, William Cownall held a tenement in Braith-
well, by homage, fealty, Ac, and suit of court to the manor of
Conisborough, and by finding one footman ( hominem peditum J
to guard the Castle for forty days, in time of war, at his own
proper costs. At the Court held at Conisborough the 24th of
August, 18 Hen. IV., 1412, William Eylmyn did fealty to the
Lord, and acknowledged that he held of him one messuage,
one toft, and nineteen acres of land, in Braithwell, in right of
his wife, lately belonging to William Cresey, by homage, fealty,
and the service of ten shillings a year rent, and by suit of court
214 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
to the Court of Conisborough, from three weeks to three weeks,
and by suit to the Lord's mill at Conisborough, &c.
[Ex. Cop. Rot. Cur. penes edit. H. M. B.]
Brook-house. — A farm a Brook-house, in Langsett, in the
parish of Penis ton, pays yearly to Godfrey Bosville, Esq., ft
snowball at Midsummer, and a red rose at Christmas.
[Extracted from the writings of Godfrey Bosville, of Gun-
thwaite, Esq., and communicated to the editor (H. M. B.) by
John Wilson, of Broomhead, Esq.]
Brotherton. — Not far from the church of Brotherton is a
place of twenty acres, surrounded by a trenoh and wall, where,
as tradition says, stood the house in which the Queen of
Edward I. was delivered of a son. The tenants are still bound
to keep it surrounded by a wall of stone.
[Gough's Camd. Brit., edit. 1789, vol. iii., p. 46.]
Carlcoats. — Two farms at Carlcoats, in the parish of Peni-
stone, pay to Godfrey Bosville, Esq., the one a right-hand, and
the other a left-hand glove, yearly.
[From the writings of Godfrey Bosville.]
Carlton -juxta-Rothwell. — William Hunt, of Carlton-by-
Bothwell, holdeth freely from all services and demands (except
one rose in the time of roses, if demanded) in Carlton aforesaid,
one capital messuage, six curtilages, four cottages, two carneals
(carucates) of land and meadow, and six assarts inseparable at
all times in the year, with their appurtenances, of the Earl of
Lincoln (Henry de Lacy), as of his manor of Both well, and the
same William and his heirs shall have and for ever enjoy, in
the manor of the said Earl there, without the park there, a
leash of greyhounds and six hounds, and the said William and
his heirs shall be ready and prepared, when they shall be
required by the forester there for the time being of the afore-
said Earl and his heirs, with the greyhounds and hunting-
hounds aforesaid, to hunt and kill fat venison of the aforesaid
Earl and his heirs in venison season in the said park.
[Ex. Record, 18 Edward vi.]
Cotingham.— Margaret, Duchess of Clarence, one of the
sisters and heirs of Edward, late Earl of Kent, held the manor
of Cotingham of the King by grand serjeantry, viz., by the
service of finding one horseman, or esquire, sufficiently armed,
to carry the coat of mail (Inricam) of our Lord the King, in his
war with Wales, at her own proper costs, for forty days, if
there should be a war in Wales.
[De term. Mich., ann. 4 Hen. vi. Harl. MS. Brit. Mus. 84,
pp. 488, 489.1
[Note. — The words here translated, " horseman or esquire,'*
are " unum armigerum equitem." It would, I think, be more
correct to translate "one horse soldier," or perhaps, "one
mounted esquire " would be better still. — W.P.B.]
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 215
Cuckwold. — Sir Thomas Colevyle, Knight, holds the manor
of Cuckwold, of Thomas, late Lord de Mowbray, as of his
manor of Threke (Thirsk), rendering one target or shield, with
the arms of the said Lord painted thereon, yearly at Whitsun-
tide.
[Escalt. 6 Hen. vi. no. 48.]
Danegate. — John Thwaytes, and Joan, his wife, held the
manor of Danegate ("Danygate "), in the county of York,
called the Prison of the Lardonary, with the appurtenances, of
our Lord the King, by the service of keeping the King's gaol in
his forest of Galtres, receiving every year of our Lord the King
and his heirs for keeping the said gaol £1 12s. Id. by the hands
of the Sheriff of the county aforesaid, for the time being, at
Easter and Michaelmas, by equal portions, and two oaks every
year in the forest aforesaid, and one buck in summer and one
doe in winter every year within the said forest, and with liberty
to hunt foxes and hares in the said forest at all times in the
year.
[De term. Hil., ann. 4 Hen. vi., Harl. MS. Brit. Mus. 84,
p.*441.]
Doxgasteb. — At this place, on the 5th November yearly,
whether it happens on a Sunday or any other day of the. week,
the town waits play for some time on the top of the church
steeple, at the time when the congregation are coming out of
church from Morning service, the tune of "God Save the King."
This has been done since 1700 at least, and very possibly ever
since the 5th November has been a festival, except that form-
erly the tune played was "Britons Strike Home.1' The waits
always receive from the churchwardens sixpence apiece for this
service. [Letter from the Bev. Mr. Scott, of Doncaster, dated
17th November, 1780.]
Elmsaix. — John Besett gave to the King eight-pence for his
relief for forty-eight acres of land in Elmesale, which John, his
father, held of the King by the service of paying at the Castle
of Pontefracc one pair of gloves furred with fox's skin, or eight-
pence yearly.
[De term. Mich., ann. 2 Edw. iii. Harl. MS., Brit. Mus.
84. p. 96.]
[An heiress of Bissett brought this estate to a branch of the
Wentworth family. See Tong's Visitation of Yorkshire.
W.P.B.]
Gowthobp, Billingley, and Swinton. — Our Lord the King
had eighteen bovates of land and a half in Goul thorp, Billinge-
lay, and Swinton, which were his escheats, and he gave them
to Daniel Pincerna, by the service of one sextary of wine, with
the flaskets, to be rendered at London at the Feast of St.
Michael. The land was worth five marks.
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[Testa de Nevil, p. 875.] Sextary, about a pint and a half,
sometimes more. Blount. Flasket, flaskettum, a kind of
basket. Blount. Probably a small bottle covered with basket-
work, a " twiggen-bottle," Othello, act ii, sc. 8.
Gunthwaite. — In the year 1588 the following rents were
paid to Francis Bosville, lord of this manor, ancestor of Godfrey
Bosville, Esq., viz. : —
George Blunt, gent., paid two broad arrows with heads.
James Bilcliffe paid a pair of gloves.
Thomas Wardsworth, for Boughbanks, paid a thwittle.
[From the writings of Godfrey Bosville.]
Halifax. — Mr. Hazlitt gives an account of the Gibbet, from
Watson's History of Halifax, p. 214, et seq.
Hunshelf. — A farm called Unshriven Bridge (vulgo Unsliven
Brigg), in Hunshelfe, in the parish of Penistone, pays yearly to
Godfrey Bosville, Esq., of Gunthwaite, in the same parish, two
broad-headed and feathered arrows.
[From the writings of Godfrey Bosville.]
Hutton-Conyers. — Near this town, which lies a few miles
from Rip on, there is a large common, called Hutton-Conyers
Moor, whereof William Aislabie, Esq., of Studley Royal (Lord
of the Manor of Hutton-Conyers), is lord of the soil, and on
which there is a large coney warren belonging to the Lord.
The occupiers of messuages and cottages within the several
towns of Hutton-Conyers, Melmerby, Baldersby, Bainton,
Dishforth, and He wick, have right of estray for their sheep to
certain limited boundaries on the common, and each township
has a shepherd.
The lord's shepherd bas a pre-eminence of tending his sheep
on any part of the common, and wherever he herds the lord's
sheep the several other shepherds are to give way to him, and
give up their hooiing-place so long as he pleases to depasture
the lord's sheep thereon. The lord holds his court the first
day in the year, and to entitle those several townships to such
right of estray, the shepherd of each township attends the
court, and does fealty by bringing to the court a large apple
pie and a twopenny sweet cake, except the shepherd of Hewick,
who compounds by paying sixteenpence for ale (which is drunk
as after-mentioned) and a wooden spoon ; each pie is cut in
two and divided by the bailiff, one-half between the steward,
bailiff, and the tenant of the coney warren before-mentioned,
and the other half into six parts, and divided amongst the 6ix
shepherds of the before-mentioned six townships. In the pie
brought by the shepherd of Rain ton an inner one is made
filled with prunes. The cakes are divided in the same manner.
The bailiff of the manor provides furmety and mustard, and
delivers to each shepherd a slice of cheese and a penny roll.
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The furmety, well mixed with mustard, is put into an earthen
pot and placed in a hole in the ground, in a garth belonging to
{he bailiff's house, to which place the steward of the court, the
bailiff, the tenant of the warren, and the six shepherds adjourn,
with their respective wooden spoons. The bailiff provides
spoons for the bteward, the tenant of the warren, and himself.
The steward first pays respect to the furmety by taking a large
spoonful, the bailiff has the next honour, the tenant of the
warren next, then the shepherd of Hutton-Conyers, and after-
wards the other shepherds by regular turns ; then each person
is served with a glass of ale (paid for by the sixteen -pence
brought by the Hewick shepherd), and the health of the Lord
of the Manor is drunk ; then they adjourn back to the bailiffs
house, and the further business of the court is proceeded with.
[From a letter addressed by Mr. Henry Atkinson, of Eipon,
to the editor H. M. Beckwith, dated 19th January, 1778.]
In addition to the above account, which the editor received
from the steward of the court, he learned the following par-
ticulars from a Mr. Barrowby, of Dishforth, who has several
times attended the court, and observed the customs used there :
He says that each pie contains about a peck of flour, is about
16 or 18 inches in diameter, and as large as will go into the
mouth of an ordinary oven; that the bailiff of the manor
measures them with a rule, and compasses them into four equal
parts, of which the steward claims one, the warrener another,
and the remainder is divided amongst the shepherds. In
respect to the furmety, he says that the top of the dish in
which it is put is placed level with the surface of the ground ;
that all persons present are invited to eat of it, and those who
do not are not deemed loyal to the lord ; that every shepherd
is obliged to eat of it, and for that purpose is obliged to take a
spoon in his pocket to the court, for if any one of them neglects
to carry a spoon with him he is to lay him down upon his
belly, and sup the furmety with his face to the pot or dish ; at
which time it is usual, by way of sport, for some of the by-
standers to dip his face into the furmety; and sometimes a
shepherd, for the sake of diversion, will purposely leave his
spoon at home.
Lanowath. — On the 18th of the Calends of January (20th
December), 1279, the Chapter of St. Peter of York granted to
farm to J. S. all their Hay of Laugwath, with the soil of the
same Hay, heath, marsh, and all other appurtenances, render-
ing therefor yearly to them in the buck season one buck, and
in the doe season one doe.
[Ex ipso autographo.]
Lbtwell. — Thomas de Lettewelle holds one acre of land in
Lettewelle by serjeanty, and he is to receive one hound at the
Nativity of the Blessed Mary, and to keep it the whole winter,
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and to have every day for keeping it threepence half-penny.
It appears in the book of fees that eight oxgangs of land were
held of the Honour of Tickhill by the same service.
[Ex prcedicto Rot. Feodar.]
Levington. — Adam de Br us, lord of Skelton, gave in marriage
with his daughter Isabel, to Henry de Percy, eldest son and
heir of Joceline de Lovain, the manor of Levington, for which
he and his heirs were to repair to Skelton Castle every Christ-
mas Day, and lead the Lady of the Castle from her chamber to
the chapel for mass, and thence to her chamber again, and,
after dining with her, to depart.
[Circ. temp. Ric. I. vel. Joh. Regis. Great Percy chartulary,
fo. 60. Collin8's Peerage, vol. 2, pa. 97, edit. 5.]
Mexbobough. — The tenants of the land of Roger Bacon did
fealty, and acknowledged that they held in M ex borough four
oxgangs of land, and paid every two years for keeping the
Castle (of Tickhill), in each year, two shillings and four pence,
and the third year they paid nothing ; and they came to the
two great courts.
[Ex proedict. Rot. Feodar.]
Query if this was not the famous friar, Roger Bacon ; for
there is a tradition that he was a native of this part of York-
shire, and that his brazen head was set up in a Held at Roth-
well, near Leeds, where the editor was born. J. Beckwith.
[Note. — Roger Bacon is said to have been born near Ilches-
ter, co. Somerset, in 1214. I do not understand what is meant
by the allusion to the brazen head, and should like an expla-
nation.—W. P. B.]
Newbiogin. — The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in Eng-
land, had at Newbigging thirteen oxgangs of land of assize held
by these men — Baldwin held one oxgang for two shillings and
a half, and two hens, and twenty eggs, and four days' work in
autumn, with one man, to plough twice, to harrow twice, to
mow once, to make hay once, and, when necessary, to repair
the mill-dam, and carry the mill-stones, and to wash sheep one
day, and to shear them another ; Bertram and Osbert, for one
oxgang of land, paid thirty pence, and did service as aforesaid,
&c. And be it known that all cottagers ought to spread and
cock hay once, and to wash and shear sheep, and repair the
mill-dam, as those which held one oxgang of land.
[Inquis. capt. ann. 1185. Mon. Aug. torn, ii, pa. 589.]
North Gyneldale. — Thomas de Walkingham, son and heir
of John de Walkingham, gives to the King six marks, for his
relief, for tenements in North Gyneldall and East Gineldale,
which he held by the service of finding one balistar towards
fortifying the castle of York in time of war. 80 Ed. I.
[De term. Hil. ann. 80 Edw. I. Harl. MS. Brit. Mas., 84.
pa. 24.] Now Great and Little Givendale. W.P.B.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 219
Okston and Dalton. — Anketil Malore holds certain lands
and ten shillings rent, in Oketon and Dalton, by serjeanty to
the King by archery (per archeriamj which land the King gave
to the said Anketil in marriage with the daughter and heir of
William de Muletorp ; and he holds the aforesaid land of one
archery for finding one servant towards the guarding of the
Castle of York in time of war, for forty days, at his own proper
charge. He has also to find a servant to conduct the treasure
of our Lord the King throughout the whole county at his own
proper charge, and out of the county at the charge of our Lord
the King.
[Plac. coron. 15 Hen. III. Ebor. rot. i, dors.]
Oxspbing. — In the year 1572, John Waynwright, Wytwell
Hall, in Hallamshire (in the manor of Bolsterstone), paid to
Godfrey Bosvilie, Esq., Lord of the manor of Oxspring, " two
grett brode arrows well hedyd, and barbyd ordrly."
[From the writings of Godfrey Bosvilie.]
Poluhoton. — The Manor of Pollington, near Snaith, is copy-
hold, and the custom is there that if a copyholder dies seised of
lands, having no issue male, but having daughters, and does
not surrender it to them in his lifetime, the same shall escheat
to the Lord of the Manor, and the daughters shall not inherit.
Sir Henry Savile, of Methley, Baronet, purchased this manor
of Sir Thomas Metham, Knight, and John Savile, of Methley
aforesaid, Esq., now enjoyeth the same, 1674.
[Ex. MS. in Bibliotheca, Monast. Ebor.]
Ripon. — There are the remains of a very ancient custom
once generally observed here by the inhabitants. On Mid-
summer Eve, every housekeeper (i.e. householder) who has in
that year changed his residence into a new neighbourhood
(there being certain limited districts called neighbourhoods),
spreads a table before his door in the street with bread, cheese,
and ale, for those that choose to resort to it, where, after stay-
ing awhile, if the master is of ability, the company are invited
to supper, and the evening is concluded with mirth and good
humour. The introduction of this custom is immorial, but it
seems to have been instituted for the purpose of introducing
new comers to an early acquaintance with their neighbours ; or
it may have been with the more laudable design of settling
differences by the meeting and mediation of friends. The
feast of St. Wilfrid, celebrated annually at this place, continues
nearly a week. On the Saturday after Lammas Day an effigy
of the Prelate is brought into the town, preceded by music ; the
people go out to meet it and, with every demonstration of joy,
commemorate the return of their former patron from exile.
The next day is dedicated to him, being here called St. Wilfray's
Sunday.
[Hist, of Ilipon, pp. 46, 47.]
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Sheffield. — [What follows is a revised translation of the
title of a roll, as given by •'E.G." in a letter to the Gentleman's
Magazine, vol. 84, p. 829.]
From the office of the Escheator, 89, Edw. III., after the
death of Thomas, Lord de Furnival, comity of York ; the Castle
and Lordship of Sheffield, with its members and appurtenances,
are held of our Lord the King in capite, as of his crown, by
homage and fealty, and by the service of one Knight's Fee, and
by the service of paying to the King and his heirs yearly two
white greyhounds ( leporarios ) on the Feast of the Nativity of
St. John the Baptist.
(There is a long note here as to whether the correct reading
is •' lepores" hares, or " leporarios" greyhounds. The various
editors of Blount, and others, have given their opinions, which
are mostly in favour of "hares." With great deference, I
venture to say that, in my opinion, the greyhound theory is
much more likely to be correct.— W.P.B.)
At this place there was a custom formerly used, that those
persons who held lands of the Manor of Sheffield, by Knight's
service, met yearly in the Wicker, near that town, on Easter-
Tuesday, dressed in armour and on horse-back, and were there
drawn up by a captain, and proceeded from thence to the Town
Hall and back again ; after which parade they had a dinner
provided for them by the lord's steward. The person whose
duty it was to act as captain of this company was John Wilson,
Esq., of Broomhead, who for soveral years employed one
Thomas Bam forth, a scissor-3inith, as his deputy, to officiate
for him, to whom he used to lend his horse and sword for the
day; and this Bamforth, by leading up the men in that manner
for several years acquired the name of Captain Bamforth.
In the pleadings upon a writ of Quo Warranto brought
against Thomas de Furnival, before John de Yallibus and other
Justices Itinerant, at York, 7 Edw. I., 1279, he claimed to
cause an assembly of all his men in Hallamshire to be held
every year after Easter, for the confirming of the peace of the
King, in the place of the Great Tourne. This account was had
by Josiah Beckwith, the editor of the 1784 edition, from John
Wilson, Esq., of Broomhead, a gentleman well skilled in the
science of antiquities, son to the Mr. Wilson whose deputy,
Captain Bamforth was. Mr. Wilson says he does not know how
his ancestors came to head up the men, as there were gentlemen
of more landed property in the manors, which comprehended
Sheffield, Hands worth, Whiston, Treeton, &c, but thinks it took
rise from Adam Wilson, of Broomhead, his ancestor, who was
shield-bearer, or esquire, to the said Lord Furnival, and had
lands given him in Wigtwisle, near Broomhead, which Mr.
Wilson still possesses, for his good services in the wars against
the Scots ; in which grant Thomas de Furnival calls him
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 221
" scutiger mens," and gives him the lands "pro bono servitio
sno in guerram contra Scotos." This custom, Mr. Wilson
says, was kept up till the year 1715 or 1716, when it was quite
dropped, but for what reason he knows not, unless the Duke of
Norfolk, who was then lord of the district of Hallamshire, and
was a Roman Catholic, thought it prudent so to do, lest some
hundreds of his tenants, so arrayed, should give offence to the
Govenment, especially at that time. Mr. Wilson further says
he was told by Mr. Andrew Wade and Mr. Thomas Eadford,
two old master cutlers, who could remember this custom
several years, that it was usual to hang a large bag filled with
sand upon the bough of a tree in the wicker, with a number of
small rings fastened to it, at which they tilted full gallop with
their swords drawn ; if they missed running their swords into
one of the rings, the bag came back with such force that it
knocked them off the horse's back, which was good sport for
the bystanders.
According to a writer in the Builder, March 26 bh, 1870, there
is a custom here of granting leases for 800 years.
Softley. — A farm at Softley, in the parish of Penistone, pays
yearly to the Bosvilles of Gunthwaite a whittle.
[From the writings of Godfrey Bosville.]
Strafpobd Wapentake. — Thomas Garnifex holds of our lord
the King, in capite' the manor of R (sic) by the sergeanty of
finding for him in his army in Wales one horse, one bill, one
pin, (brochiam) and one sack, &c. ; and the aforesaid Thomas
was amerced for the unjust detention.
[Plac. Coron. 7 Edw. I. Ebor.]
Swinton. — William FitzDaniel holds four oxgangs and a half
of land in Swinton, paying therefor yearly one flasket, &c.
[Plac. Coron. 15 Hen. III. Ebor. rot. 17.] Vide under
Goulthorp.
Two farms lying in this township which belong to Earl Fitz-
william, late in the occupations of John Mercer and Richard
Thompson, every year change their parish ; for one year, from
Easter-day at twelve noon till next Easter-day at the same
honr, they lie in the parish of Mexborough, and then till the
Easter-day following at the same hour they are in the parish
of Wath-upon-Dearne, and so alternately. These farms con-
sist of about 802 acres.
[H. M. Beckwith, 1815.]
Tinsley. — William de London holds Tinneslowe by serjeanty,
and he is to receive a hawk at the feast of St. Michael, and to
train and teach it custodire the whole winter, and to have for
training it sevenpence halfpenny every day out of the lord's
purse for his service ; and his horses were to be appraised if
they died in the same service, and the lord was to pay him the
price.
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William Wyntworth holds his tenements in Tynneslowe by
the service of training and teaching custodiendum a hawk, as
above ; and Thomas Denman holds the other moiety in Tynnes-
lowe by the same service.
[Ex prcediot. Rot. Feodar.]
Ulf's Lands. — About the time of King Canute the Dane, Ulf,
the son of Thorold, a prince of that nation, governed in the
western part of Deira, that division of the ancient kingdom of
Northumbria which was bounded by the river Humber south-
wards, and to the north by the Tyne, which continued so dis-
tinguished under the Danes, but is now better known by the
name of Yorkshire, and the five other northern counties of
England. "This prince, by reason of a difference like to
happen between his eldest son and his youngest, about his
estate after his death, presently took this course to make them
equal ; without delay he went to York, and taking with him the
horn, wherein he was wont to drink, he filled it with wine, and
kneeling upon his knees before the altar, bestowed upon God
and the blessed St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, all his lands
and revenues." [Camd. Brit. tit. Yorkshire, West Biding.]
The figure of which horn, in memory thereof, is cut in stone
upon several parts of the choir, but the horn itself, about King
Edward VI's time, is supposed to have been sold to a gold-
smith, who took away from it those tippings of gold wherewith
it was adorned, and the gold chain affixed thereto ; it is certain
that it was remaining among many other ornaments, and pre-
sented in the Sacristy at York in the time of King Henry VIII. ,
some time before the Reformation ; where it lay from the
time of King Edward VI. till it fortunately came into the hands
of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, General of the Parliament Army,
there is no account ; but he being a lover of antiquities, took
care to preserve it during the confusions of the civil wars ; and
dying in 1651, it came into the possession of his next relation,
Henry, Lord Fairfax, who restored it again to its first re-
pository, where it now remains a noble monument of modern
as well as ancient piety.
As to its present condition, its beauty is not in the least im-
paired by age, it being of ivory, (of an eight-square form) — the
carving is very durable, and it is ornamented in the circum-
ference, at the larger extremity, with the figures of two griffins,
a lion, unicorn, dogs, and trees interspersed in bas relief, and
where the plates are fixed, with a foliage after the taste of those
times.
Lord Fairfax supplied the want of the plates, which anciently
embellished this horn, honoured in all probability with the
name of the donor, (the loss of which original inscription can
only be lamented, not retrieved) and substituted the present
one, with the chain of silver gilt.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
CORNY HOG VLPHV8, IN OGCIDENTALI PARTE DEIRAE PRINCEPS,
YNA GVM 0MNIBV3 TERRJS ET REDDITI3YS SYIS
OLIM DONAYIT:
ADMISSYM YEL ABREPTVM
HENRICY8 D« FAIRFAX OEMYM RE8TITVIT DEC. ET CAP OE NOVO
ORNAVIT. AN. DOM. 1675.
[Arclucologia, vol. i., p. 168, et seq.]
[The following lands are mentioned in Doomsday Book as
having formerly belonged to Ulf, and now (1087) belonging to
the Archbishop of York.
Biding not specified.
Langtoft, 1 Manor, 9 Carucates.
Gotham, 1 „ 9 ,,
Nobth Biding.
Salt on, 2 Manors, 9 Carucates.
Brawby, 2 ,, 6 „
Barugh \ q qj
AliaBarughj * " **
Nawton 4 ,,
Malton 1 ,, 1 ,,
Wimbleton 1 ,, 1 „
Pockley 1 „ 1 ,,
Ampleford 1 ,, 8 ,,
Flaxton 1 ,, 6 oxgangs.
Morton
'Baschebi"
Coulton
2 J carucates.
6 ,, and 1 oxgang.
4*
Stonegrave 6 oxgangs.
W.P.B.]
Wadslky. — Josiah Beckwith (editor of the 1784 edition) was
informed by his correspondent, Mr. Wilson, of Broomhead, that
he has heard old men speak of an ancient custom in the Manor
of Wadsley which was that the lord or owner of Wadsley Hall
always maintained twelve men and their horses at free com-
mons twelve days in Christmas, and when they went away
every one stuck a large pin, or a needle, in the mantle tree.
Wakefield. — John, Earl of Warren and Surrey, granted to
one John Howson a messuage in Wakefield, the said Howson
paying the annual rent of a thousand clusters of nuts, and up-
holding a gauntlet firm and strong.
[Watson's Memoirs of the Earls of Warren and Surrey, Vol. 1,
pa. 264; from a deed in French, dated 7 Edw. I., late in the
possession of Mr. Thos. Wilson, of Leeds.]
To be continued. W.P.B.
224
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Saltan*,
Sir Titus Salt, Bart.
Saltaire, as will bo seen from the plate herewith, is a modern
town, with a newly-invented name. It is the grand design of
a noble mind. The Founder of Saltaire was the son of Daniel
Bait and Grace, his wife, daughter of Isaac Smithies, of Mor-
ley. He was born September 20th, 1808, and named after his
grandfather, Titus Salt, of Hunslet. Soon after his birth,
which took place at the old Manor House, Morley, the family
removed to a farm at Crofton. Whilst Titus was at Heath
Grammar School, Wakefield, his father removed to Bradford,
and commenced busiuess as a woolstapler, and was joined in
due time by his son, the firm becoming known as Daniel Salt
and Son. During the partnership with his father, he intro-
duced the Russian Donskoi Wool into the worsted trade.
About 1880, ho first became acquainted with Alpaca, and the
3
YORKSHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES.
business outgrew the Bradford accommodation. It is said that
8ir Titus intended to form a new establishment east of Brig-
house, but falling to agree with Sir George Armytage about
Saltaire Congregational Church,
the land, he procured a site at Shipley, and in 1851 commenced
the erection of the model factories and town, now known as
Saltaire, from the founder and the river*
Y.N.Q. 0
226 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
We need not repeat the oft-told story from Dickens' HoiueluM
Words of the purchase of the "frowsy nondescript stuff/' Alpaca
wool, in 1886, nor the growth of this beautiful little town,
whose praise has reached the four quarters of the globe. In
Abraham Holroyd's booklet — " Saltaire, and Its Founder/* the
grand conception and its ultimate development is minutely
traced. The whole story stands forth more like an idea worked
out by some Utopian novelist than an accomplished fact in
these pushing times. We have the romantic incidents of the
opening of the works on the Founder's fiftieth birthday, Sep-
tember 20th, 1858. The workpeople, 2500 in number, were
conveyed by special train from Bradford, and rubbed shoulder
to shoulder with Yorkshire's aristocracy, including the Lord
Lieutenant of the County, the Earl of Harewood, in the unpar-
alleled rejoicings of that day. Not content with a large mill
and first-class cottage houses, each succeeding year saw some
magnificent structure — literary or religious, or purely philan-
thropic— such as Infirmary and Alms-houses, added to the at-
tractions of the town, but public houses were rigidly suppressed.
The Literary Institute and the Park crowned the unique design,
and the Queen and her subjects were of one mind in the be-
stowal and approval of a Baronetcy. Sir Titus had yielded his
seat as Member of Parliament for Bradford for more congenial
labours in local philanthropy. He must have looked with
great satisfaction and thankfulness on the accomplishment of
his noble purpose. Sir Titus died at Crow Nest, Lightcliffe,
but was brought to the Congregational Church at Saltaire,
which he had himself founded, to be interred, and a beautiful
mausoleum was added to the structure. Since his death, royal
pageants reminding us of the days of Queen Elizabeth have
been seen at Saltaire, — the first when the Prince and Princess
of Wales stayed over-night at Milner Field, Mr. Titus Salt's
residence, and again in the Jubilee year when the Princess
Beatrice, accompanied by her husband, opened the Exhibition
at Saltaire. Hardly had the Exhibition come to a close when
Mr. Titus Salt was suddenly struck down by heart disease, and
he too was interred amongst the people with whom he had
spent his life's labours.
Of Sir Titus Salt's ancestors we know nothing, save that his
grandfather died at Hunslet Foundry, August 21st, 1827.
COINS STRUCK IN YORKSHIRE.
By the Rev. G. F. Cbowtheb, M.A., Member of the Numismatic
Society, and Author of a " Guide to English Pattern Coins."
In a description of coins struck in Yorkshire our attention is
limited to only a small number of towns. In fact, with the
YORKSHIRE NOTES. AND QUERIES. 227
single exception of York itself, no Yorkshire mint long retained
the privilege of issuing coins. Edward I. established a mint at
Kyngeston upon Hull, and we have silver pennies of his, bearing
on the reverse the inscription, vill kyngeston. But these pen-
nies of Edward I. are by no means common, and they are the
only coins that were ever issued from the Kyngeston mint.
During the Civil War various pieces of necessity, or siege
pieces, were struck at Scarborough and at Pontefract. At the
last named town the Governor of the Castle, Colonel John
Morris, held out against the rebels for seven weeks after the
death of King Charles I. During that period he coined some
shillings of an octagonal shape, inscribed on the obverse, post :
mortem : patbis : pro : filio ; and on the reverse, carol : ii : d :
g: mao: b: f: et: h: rex.
The only other coins struck in Yorkshire are those which
were issued from the York mint. The earliest known coins
which can undoubtedly be attributed to York, date from the end
of the eighth century: from which time to the end of the seven-
teenth century, the York mint was worked almost without
interruption. It is probable that the coins of Ecgfrith, King of
Northumbria (670-685), were struck at York: and there can be
no doubt that most, if not all the small copper coins, known as
"styctf," issued by the Archbishops, E an bald (796), Yigmund
(887-854), and Yulfhere (854-900;, also owe their origin to the
city of York.
The number of early coins still extant, which were struck in
this city, bears witness to the wealth and power of Northumbria;
and shews that the second city of the kingdom was at one time
no mean rival of London itself. Although I have not sought
for coins of the York mint, my collection furnishes, amongst
others, the following examples : —
A.D. 887-854. Styca of Vigmund, by the moneyer hvnlap.
877-894. Silver penny of Cnut, or Guthred, reading on
the reverse, ebraice ctvita •••
circa 905. Silver penny of S. Peter, with sword to left.
1016-1038. Silver penny of Cnut the Great, with name
of moneyer and mint on reverse, pvlnod m.o
eof., i.e. Wulnoth monetaries Eoferwic.
But to give a list of the York coins in my collection would be
tedious to your readers.* It is enough to add that coins were
struck there by Aethelstan, Eadmund, Eadvig, Eadgar, Aethel-
raedlL, Cnut, Harold I., Edward the Confessor, Harold II.,
William I. & II., Henry I., Stephen, Henry II. & III,, Edward
L, H. & HI., Bichard H., Henry V. & VI., Edward IV.,
Bichard HI., Henry VII. & VIII., Edward VI., Charles I., and
William IH.
• We trow not.— Ed.
228 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
With respect, however, to the coins of Edward VI., your cor-
respondent is in error in attributing to the York mint those
which bear the mint mark Y. This letter has reference to Sir
John Yorke, who was master of the Southwark mint, where all
pieces of Edward VI. with this mint mark were coined. The
York coins of Edward VI. have for mint mark a pierced mullet.
Of these we have sixpences and threepences of fine silver, with
the King's bust, full faced, on the obverse ; and on the reverse, a
shield of arms divided by a cross, with legend, civitas ebobaci :
and a penny of base silver, with a Tudor rose on the obverse,
and legend e.d.o. rosa sine spi., the reverse bearing a shield of
arms divided by a cross, with legend, civitas ebobaci.
Blount's Yorkshire Tenures. — Continued.
Wakefield. — In ejectment for copyhold lands, held of this
manor, it was admitted at a trial at bar that, by the custom of the
manor, copyhold lands might be entailed ; and that the custom to
bar such entails is for the tenant in tail to commit a forfeiture ;
and then after three proclamations made, the lord of the manor
may seize for such forfeiture, and regrant the lands to the
copyholder and his heirs, by which means he hath an estate in
fee, and by consequence the estate tail is gone; but that
another custom to bar such entails is for the tenant in tail in
possession to make a surrender to a purchaser and his heirs,
and then such purchaser is to commit a forfeiture, for which
the lord of the manor is to seize, and to regrant to the pur-
chaser, and by this means the issue in tail are barred, though
the tenant in tail did not join.
[1 Sid. 814 ; Pilkington v. Stanhope]
[Under Wakefield Manor it is customary to make surrender
by yielding a straw, and occasionally a straw may be found
affixed to the deed. J.H.T.]
Whitby. — In the fifth year of the reign of King Henry II.,
after the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy,
the lord of Uglebarmby, then called William de Bruce, the lord
of Snaynton, called Ralph de Percy, and a gentleman free-
holder, called A Hot son, did, on the 16th day of October, meet
to hunt the wild boar, in a certain wood or desart called Esk-
dale-side : the wood or place did belong to the Abbot of the
Monastery of Whitby, who was then called Sedman, and Abbot
of the said place.
Then the aforesaid gentlemen did meet with their hounds
and boar-staves in the place aforesaid, and there found a great
wild boar ; and the hounds did run him very hard near the
chapel and hermitage of Eskdale-side, where there was a monk
of Whitby, who was a hermit ; and the boar being so hard
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 229
pursued, took in at the chapel door, and there laid him down
and died immediately, and the hermit shut the hounds out of
the chapel, and kept himself at his meditation and prayers, the
hounds standing at a bay without, the gentlemen in the thick
of the wood, put behind their game, in following the cry of the
hounds, came to the hermitage, and found the hounds round the
chapel ; then came the gentlemen to the door of the chapel,
and called on the hermit, who did open the door, and then they
got forth, and within lay the boar dead, for which the gentle-
men in a fury, because their hounds were put out of their
game, run at the hermit with their boar-staves, whereof he
died ; then the gentlemen knowing, and perceiving that he was
in peril of death, took sanctuary at Scarborough ; but at that
time, the Abbot, being in great favour with the King, did re-
move them out of the sanctuary, whereby they came in danger
of the law, and not privileged, but like to have the severity of
the law, which was death. But the hermit, being a holy man,
and being very sick, and at the point of death, sent for the
Abbot, and desired him to send for the gentlemen, who had
wounded him to death ; so doing, the gentlemen came, and the
hermit, being sick, said, " I am sure to die of these wounds : "
the Abbot answered, " They shall die for it ; " but the hermit
said, " Not so, for I will freely forgive them my death, if they
are content to be enjoined this penalty (penance) for the safe-
guard of their souls : " the gentlemen being there present, bid
him enjoin what he would, so he saved their lives : then said
the hermit, " You and yours shall hold your land upon (of) the
Abbot of Whitby and (his) successors in this manner ; that
upon Ascension-day even, you, or some of you, shall come to
the wood of Stray heads, which is in Eskdale-side, and the
same day (Ascension-day at sun-rising), and there shall the
officer of the Abbot blow his horn, to the intent that you may
know how to find him, an4 deliver unto you, William de
Bruce, ten stakes, eleven strut stowers, and eleven yadders, to
be cut with a knife of a penny price ; and you, Ralph de Percy,
shall take one and twenty of each sort, to be cut in the same
manner ; and you, Allotson, shall take nine of each sort, to be
cut as aforesaid, and to be taken on your backs, and carried to
the town of Whitby, and to be there before nine o'clock of the
day before mentioned ; and at the hour of nine o'clock, if it be
fall sea, to cease their service, as long as till it be low water ;
and at nine o'clock of the same day, each of you shall set your
stakes at the brim of the water, each stake a yard from another,
and so yadder them with your yadders, and to stake them on
each side with strut-stowers, that they stand three tides, with-
out removing by the force of the water; each of you shall make
at that hour in every year, except it be full sea at that hour,
which when it shall happen to come to pass the service shall
280 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
cease : you shall do this to remember that yon did slay me, and
that you may the better call to God for mercy, repent yourselves,
and do good works. The officer of Eskdale-Side shall blow,
Out on you ! Out on you ! for this heinous crime of yours : if
you or your successors refuse this service, as long as it shall
not be a full sea, at the hour aforesaid, you or yours shall forfeit
all your lands to the Abbot or his successors ; this I do intreat,
that you may have your lives and goods for this service, and
you to promise by your parts in heaven, that it shall be done
by you and your successors as it is aforesaid " : and then the
Abbot said, " I grant all that you have said, and will confirm
it by the faith of an honest man " : then the hermit said, " My
soul longeth for the Lord, and I as freely forgive these gentle-
men my death, as Christ forgave the thief upon the cross"; and
in the presence of the Abbot and the rest, he said moreover
these words, "In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritual
meum, a vinculisenim mortis redemisti me, Domine veritatis."
(Into Thy hands, 0 Lord, I commend my spirit, for Thou hast
redeemed me from the bonds of death, 0 Lord of truth.) And
the Abbot and the rest said "Amen." And so (the hermit)
yielded up the ghost the 8th day of December. Upon whose
soul God have mercy, Anno Domini, 1160.
[From a printed copy published at Whitby a few years prior
to 1816.]
N.B. — This service is still annually performed. H.M.B.
[The Lord of Whitby Manor, as successor to the abbots,
about half a century since offered to dispense with the cere-
mony, but the proprietor of the remaining lands held by this
remarkable tenure declined it. N. & Q., 3rd ser., ii. pa. 88.
The feudal system of the Penny Hedge was duly observed on
Wednesday Morning (Ascension Eve), by Mr. Herbert, in the
presence of Mr. Pennock and others. Whitby Gazette, May
81, 1862. W.P.B.]
Whorlton. — Nicholas de Menyll held the Manor of Whorlton,
&c, of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by serving the said Arch-
bishop of Canterbury on the day of his consecration, with the
cup out of which the Archbishop was to drink that day.
[Escaet. 16 Edw. III., no. 87.]
I [Bradford Horn, see p. 218. UlfsHorn,
York, see pp. 222, 223. Poulson gives the
arms of Ulf, the Danish Lord of Aldbrough,
and other East Biding Manors, as shewn
herewith, and &tates that he died in the
reign of the Confessor, and that the fifth
in descent from him married in 1228 the
daughter of Thomas, Lord of Greystock,
and the later Barons of Greystook take the
Forno and Ulf arms quarterly.]
Y0BK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
281
York. — Philip le Lardiner claims to be salesman (venditor)
for our Lord the King in fee, within the county of York, of all
things to be sold for debt owing to the King, and also for Queen -
gold fproauro Regime). In this manner — viz., that he or his
certain attorney should, at the command of the Sheriff, go from
282 Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
place to place within the county at his own charges to make the
said sales, and should take for every such sale for his fee xxxij.
pence. [Quo Warr. Ebor. temp. Edw. I.]
Which tenure was afterwards seized into the King's hands
for the abuse thereof, as appears by the Great Roll of the Pipe,
2 Ed. II.
David Lardinar holds one piece of land in York by the service
of keeping the gaol, and of selling the cattle which were taken
for the debts of our Lord the King, and it is worth yearly 6
shillings.
[Testa de Nevil. 868.]
William de Malehovers holds one piece of land, and the ad-
vowson of the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, by the service of
finding benches for the county court.
iibid.]
The 1st of August is said to be called Lammas, quasi Lamb
Mass, because on that day the tenants that held land of the
cathedral church of York, which is dedicated to St. Peter ad
Yincula, were bound by their tenure to bring a live lamb into
the church at high mass on that day.
[Blount's Law Diet, in verbo.]
Before the Enclosure Act came into effect, a large portion of
the land in the immediate vicinity of York was held by a rather
peculiar tenure. The owners of the fields were entitled to keep
them enclosed, and have the exclusive enjoyment of the land
during the summer half-year; but on Michaelmas Day the
fences were thrown down, and certain freemen of the city had
the right of turning on their cattle to depasture for the ensuing
six months.
[Extracts from the York Records, by Robert Davies, 1848,
pp. 186, 198.]
London. W. Paley Baildon.
Washbdrn Place Names. — I should be extremely obliged by
the notes, etymological and otherwise, of correspondents upon
the following place-names, all occurring near the head- waters
of the Washburn, some on the high moors, some on the rocky
slopes of the dells, and some as names of brooks, &c. The
spelling is that of the Ordnance Survey. The portion in italics
is the portion of the word to which attention is drawn— Hood-
stnrth, Whams (" The Whams," " White Whams," &c.) ; Slade
(Hangon Slade); CapelshtLW, or Cappish&vr; Lifo'shaw; Brandrith,
or BrandrrtA; RedfwA ; Fleets (on the moor); Iioclianl Dyke;
Maukin Gro68 ; Pan Head ; Yaud Bones Ridge ; /WAstones.
A FORESTEB.
YOBXBHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES. 288
Domestic State Papers, James I., Vol. XXXVII, No. 107. —
An undated and an unsigned State Paper being a description of
the Manors of Wakefield, Pontefract, Knaresborough, and Tic-
kell in Yorkshire, belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, and of
others in Lincolnshire, according to a recent survey with entries
of the nature of the tenures, the occupation and character of
the inhabitants, and the feasibility of obtaining increased rents.
About November, 1608.
Ducatus Lancaster. — Wakefeild.
The Manor of Wakefeild is neare 800£ of copihold rent,
rented generally at iiijd. the acre.
The most of it inclosed ground, meadow and pasture worthe
Eight or Tenn shillings an acre, p. ann.
Their fynes upon deathe or alienacon arbitrable.
The proffitts of Courts are in lease.
The Stewards make great proffit.
The better sort of tenants, there, desire to be made free and
thinck fourescore years fyne no great rate.
The Tenants generally riche and traders in clothe, most of
them peaceable and quietly disposed.
Therefore I think this Lordshipp may be made a worthie ex-
ample of proffitt to many other of like tenure, for I verily think
they may be drawen with some circumstances to very high rates.
Pountfrett.
The Honor of Pountfrett consists of eightene Manors whereof
fowre of the best are in Joincture to the Queen, therefore not
surveyed by me. The Copihold rent of the rest amounts to £400
or thereabouts.
The rents are rated Higher than Wakefeild.
Their fynes arbitrable as Wakefeild.
The soile nor Tenants so riche, yett well disposed and may
be drawen to convicons annswerable to their abilities and the
benefitt they shall receave.
Knaresbroughe.
The manor and forest of Knaresbroughe in Copihold rent is
about £200.
The soile good and inclosed, the tenants generally riche.
The one half of this rent is in the forest where all their land
is rented at vjd. an acre, their measure is so great as, one with
another, they hold fowre acres for one throughout the forest.
They observe their Customs curiously and stand upon it that
their fynes are certein upon alienacon, and so are they, for
anything I could either see or learne.
They are the most headstrong people in that country, there-
for preparatives must be there used before the mayne service be
in band.
There neither is nor hath been (within memory) any deare
in the forest, nor any woods to make account of.
284 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Great store of sheep are kept in the forest which are no forest
goods.
In this Lordship are moch and good demesnes claymed and
holden by Copie, the Tenants whereof are willing to give fortie
yeares fyne to be made free, thoughe their rent farr exceed the
forest rent ratably.
Tickhull.
In the manor of Tickhull is about 100£ Gopihold rent.
The fynes arbitrable but the rents highly rated.
The Tenants nor soile so good or riche as in other places,
yet will the Tenants intertayne their freedome at a reasonable
highe rate, in respect they think their Steward useth them
hardely thoughe the King's proffitt be small therein.
Some other small manors there are in Yorkshire of like state
and nature as Tickhull, but the rents of them all amount not
to 100£.
Lincoln.
All the Duchie Manors in this countie I have surveyed and
fynd the Copihold rents there amount near to 500£.
Their fynes generally uncertaine, except the Manors of Gree-
tham and Waddington, which are but small things.
The rents of the Manors of Long Sutton and Ingoldemeales
are about 200£. The Soile very good and inclosed.
The Tenants riche and great reason to hope to raise as moch
proffit to His Matie. in these two manors as in Wakefeild.
The rest in Lincolnshire are not so riche tenants nor soile so
good, yett may they easily be drawen by example of their
neighbours to what their abilities will beare.
So the whole Copihold rent in theis two Counties (which I
have onely yett surveyed) comes to about 1500£.
In Lancashire, Staffordshire, Derbishire, Leicestershire and
other Counties within my office are very great store of Copihold
rent which I shall willingly survey upon direccon.
Transcribed by Dr. F. Collins, York.
Yorkshire Collections on Briefs from the Parish Records
of Denston, Suffolk. £ Bm <j#
1665. It. Collected to a Breife Oct. 15, for
Shelling ffleete in the East Ridinge of Yorkeshire 2 1
1691. Aug. 16, for Thirske (Poor Persons in N.
Riding of Yorks. Arch. Cant. xiv. 211.) 1 0
1692. For Hedon in Yorkshire 1 1
1805. June 16, Coley Chapel, co. York, charges 106 10 8
* „ 28, Kighley Church, „ „ 2620 12 9
Collected nothing.
• This is written Kinjley in \\>rki. Notei an I Queriei. p. 194.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1805. + Nov. 24, Wobsey (?) Chapel, co. York.
Collected nothing. Charges 888 14 9
1806. June 15, Lnddenham Chnrch, co. York.
Charges 1418 18 0
1807. July 19, Thornwaite Chpel. co. York.
Charges 258 11 5|
1807. Aug. 9, Folly foot Fire, co. York. „ 806 0 0
1808. July 17, Fewston Church in co. York.
Charges 719 16 5£
Sep. 18, Pudsey Mill Fire co. York.
Charges 128 14 0
From Proceedings of Suffolk Institute of Archaology, VI. p.
425-9. 1888. F. R. F.
Weeping Cross. — I am collecting materials for the history of
the. Weeping Cross (Crux lacrymansj, to illustrate the phrase
"coming home by Weeping Cross "; and shall be much obliged
to you if you can contribute any information from unpublished
sources. W. H. 8., Yaxley, Suffolk.
Inscriptions on Early English Pottery. — Believing that not
a few collectors would appreciate a list of the names, initials,
inscriptions and dates occurring on pieces of English pottery of
the Mrlier fabriques, I am collecting information with a view to
publication. I have already notices of such specimens as are
to be found in the public and larger private collections, but am
desirous of including as many as may be, of those in private
hands, and my object in asking you kindly to insert this letter,
is to encourage possessors to communicate with me. The prin-
cipal varieties of pottery which I propose to include in my list
are the following : — Slip Ware, including Toft. Maroud Ware.
Lambeth, Bristol and Liverpool Delft. Salt Glazed Ware.
Jackfield. Nottingham. Fulham and Lambeth Stone Ware.
Porcelain and the later descriptions of pottery such as Leeds
and Wedgewood are outside the scope of my enquiries.
Replies, stating size of specimens and giving full particulars
of the Inscriptions or Dates will be gratefully received by
Childwall, Bichmond-on-Thames. J. Eliot Hodgkin.
A Regiment of Yorkshire Militia before 1815. — I should
be glad if any of your readers could give me information re-
specting a regiment of Militia which was raised some time
before the battle of Waterloo, in the neighbourhood of Halifax,
when there was a scare about an impending French invasion.
Is there any account of same in any Yorkshire books, giving a
list of officers, etc. W. A. T.
t Wibsey. Ibid.
286 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
[Several sketches, including one in YorksJdre Costumes, have
appeared respecting the 83rd Regiment, alias Haver-cake Lads.
Notices of Halifax Volunteer Regiments appeared in the Local
Portfolio, a series of papers in the Halifax Guardian. A list of
Officers, &c, will oblige. — Ed.]
Notes from Silkstone Registers.
Marriages.
1655. Nov. 22. John Moksone and Jane Wardsworth.
1661. Feb. 14. Josias Wardsworth and Elizabeth Harison.
1668 or 9 qy month 80. Thomas Wordsworth & Anne Burdett.
1670. Oct. 27. John Wordsworth and Jane Heap.
1676. May 25. Francis Wodsworth and Mary Smith.
Nov. 7. Francis Wardsworth and Martha Samson.
1680. Oct. 7. Francis Wordsworth and Sarah Pollard.
1702. Dec. 81. William Wadsworth and Mary Roberts, both of
Hoy lands waine.
1702. Oct. 12. George Womersley and Mary Wordsworth.
1710. Apr. 18. Robert Wadsworth and Anne Bramha.
1718. Oct. 27. Jeremy Kenerley and Martha Wardsworth.
1714. Aug. 81. Robert Wordsworth and Anne Harper, of ye
p'ish. of Darfield.
1715. Apr. 22. Edward Wilkinson, of Peniston, and Sara
Wadsworth of p'ish of Tankersley.
The 5th Vol. of Registers containing entries up to 1788 is so
full of notes of Wordsworths, I had not time to extract them.
I also observed numerous entries of Wordsworths in the 2nd
Vol., that is during the period anterior to 1598. There is a
note in Vol. 8 as follows : — " There is a deficiency in these
Registers of 55 years, from 1598 to 1658. Note this Vol. com-
mences with a single Baptism in 1651."
Baptisms.
1656. Dec. 21. Robert, s. Adam Wardsworth, of Stainborough.
7. July 4. Elizabeth, d. Cristopher Wardsworth, of Healey
in Hoyland.
1659. Apr. 11. Mary, d. John Wardsworth, of Thurguland.
1664. Aug. 14. William, s. Adam and Anne Wadsworth.
5. Mar. 4. Adam, s. Adam and Anne Wadsworth, of Stain-
brough.
1669-70. Jan. 8. Amos, s. Thomas and Anne Wordsworth.
71. Aug. 12. Mary, d. John and Jane Wod worth.
75. Feb. 6. William, s. John and Jane Wod worth.
77. July 10. Francis, s. Francis and Sarah Wadsworth.
78. July 11. Mary, d. Richard Wordsworth.
71. Jan. 8. Joshuah, s. John Wordsworth.
Feb. 11. Anne, d. John Wordsworth.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 23V
1679. May 15. Sarah, d. Francis Wordsworth.
Sep. 5. Elizabeth, d. of Mr. Richard Wordsworth.
80. Jan. 11. Susanna, d. Mr. Richard Wordsworth, of Folth-
wait.
81. July 28. John, s. Francis and Sarah Wordsworth, of
Stainborough.
168}. Mar. 22. Joseph, s. Johnathan Wordsworth, of Thurgo-
land.
88. May 27. William, s. Mr. Richard Wordsworth, of Faw-
lethwaite.
84. Oct. 0. Elizabeth, d. Johnathan Wordsworth, of Thurgo-
land.
Dec. 26. Joseph, s. Francis Wordsworth, of Thorgoland.
85. Sep. 8. Hanna, d. Robert Wordsworth, of Thorgeland.
8i. Jan. 19. Thomas, s. Mr. Richard Wordsworth, of Fawlett
87. Sep. 20. Jonathan, s. Robert Wordsworth, of Thorgoland
88. Sep. 18. Johnathan, s. Johnathan Wordsworth, of Thur-
guland.
91. May 21. Benjamin, s. „ „ Thorgoland.
99. July 16. William, baseborn son of Martha Wadsworth,
of Thurgoland.
1708. Sep. 28. Adam, 8. William Wadsworth, of Hoylandswaine
}. Jan. 15. Jonathan, 8. John Wadsworth, „ ,,
1704. Oct. 8. John, s. Josias Wordsworth (altered from Wails-
worth), of Thurgoland.
5. May 8. Martha, d. Matthew Wadsworth, Brettain.
June 6. Sarah, d. Jo. Wordsworth, Hoylandswaine.
6. April 29. Jonathan, 8. Wm. Wordsworth, „
7. „ 11. John, s. John ,, „
June 4. Jane, d. Josias „ of Thurgoland.
9. Dec. 81. Sarah, d. William Wadsworth, of Hoylandswaine
10. Apr. 19. Joseph & Benjamin, s. of Robt. & Anne Wods-
worth, base begotten, of Hoylandswaine.
171?. Feb. 2. Josias, s. John Wodsworth, of Hoylandswaine.
BUBIALS.
1658. Nov. 11. Elizabeth Wardsworth, of Silkston.
57. May 7. Robert, s. Adam Wardsworth, of Stainborough.
68. April 16. William Wardsworth, of Wrathhouse, in the
p'ish of Peniston.
60. Mar. 25. WUlem, s. Wilem Wardsworth, of Stainbrough*
Oct. 26. Anne, wife „ ,, „
Dec. 8. Richard, s. John Wardsworth, of Thurgoland.
„ 21. Elizabeth, d. John „ „
61. July 17. Christopher Wardsworth, of Hoylandswaine.
65. Apr. 4. Richard, s. Mr. Willm Wadsworth, of Fawfet.
66. Oct. 8. Christopher, s. Jane Wadsworth, of Hoola.
11. Jane, d.
Dec. 28. William, s.
288 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
166?. Mar. 5. William Wordsworth, of Falthwaite.
79. Aug. 29. Ann Wordsworth.
Sep. 1. John ,,
Oct. 10. Mary „
80. Aug. 11. Mary ,, of Thurgoland.
81. June 7. Adam „ of Stainborough.
82. Feb. 18. Sarah Wordsworth, of Thurgoland.
82. Nov. 7. Sarah, d. John Wordsworth, of Thurgoland.
88. Oct. 1. Sarah, d. Francis Wordsworth.
84. Apr. 10. John Wordsworth, of Thurgoland.
85. July 6. William Wordsworth, of Stainborough.
87. Aug. 7. Mary, wife of Francis Wordsworth, of Thurgoland
98. Dec. 11. Mary, d. Bobert Wordsworth, of Thurgoland.
1707. Nov. 25. Jane, d. Josias Wordsworth, of Thurgoland.
10. Ap. 29. Joseph and Benjamin, ss. of Bobert and Anne
Wadsworth.
11. July 18. Joshua, s. Bobert Wodsworth, of Thurgoland.
4i. Jan. 28. Bobert Wodsworth, of Thurgoland.
if. Feb. 14. A still born child of John Wadsworth's of Hoy-
landswaine.
London. J. T. Squibe.
Ancient Sessions Notes Extracted fkom the Originals.
Alehouse. — Upon a good certificate now prsentd. at Corte
vnder the hands of Sir George Cook Barrt. John Mawhood
Clerk Vickar of Arksey and eighteen more substantyall Inhi-
tants there, as alsoe by the oath of two witnesses now sworne
in corte it is made appeare That Bobte Carver and Anne his
wife of Stockbridge within the pish, of Arksey aforesaid who
kepes a comon Alehouse or Tipleing house are psons much
debauched in their lives amongst their neighbors for cheateing
and deceiving all whom they converse with, haveing heretofore
suffered for Thefte and doe uniustly sue, vex and trouble many
psons at Law without any iust cawse and sevall other misde-
meanors all wch the Corte now takeing into seryous considera-
cion doe think fitt and accordingly order That the said Bobte
Carver for the reasons above said be for future supprest for
keeping any Alehouse or tipling house any longer, and if hee
continue to doe," &c. then to be sent to York Castle. Don-
caster, 1677.
A Leeds Wedding. — The Information of Jane Streaker taken
before Thomas Fairfax, Esq., March 8, 1685, Who saith, That
she did goe to Leeds old Church to be marryed about ffoure
yeares agoe with one John Streaker and they did both then say
part of the words required by the Church of England in Matri-
mony but did not say all that should compleat their marryage.
After living sometime with her husband she ran away to
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 289
London, returning to Yorkshire to know if her husband was
dead so that she could marry Mathew Holdsworth, servant to
a stapler in Sotherick (Southwark) att the signe of the plume
of ffeathers." Pontefract, April 1686.
Scene in Bradford Church. — Sarah Hurd on Sunday, 7th
March 1674 (O.8.), in a very disorderly and seditious manner
com'd into the Church of Bradford in time of divine service,
and did then and there by some indecent and clamorous
speeches disturb the minister in his prayer and the whole con-
gregation in their devotion. She was a qnakeress.
Witchcraft. — The Information of Laurence Slater of Idel,
W. R. Yorks, Salter, taken upon oath the 27th August, 1690,
That he was by and prsent with James Booth, Martha Thorn-
ton Junr., and John Thornton of Idel his neighbours about a
fortnight since in the dwellinghouse of Anthony Baistricke of
Idel aforesaid in the parlour there (drinking ale) when the
aforesaid Martha Thornton and James Booth began to differ in
words in his hearing, and James Booth said to Martha Thorn-
ton What do my children call thee, and she answered They call
me Witch. And he said What art thou but a Witch. She
answered Ye have not such a one to set by me. And he said
again, I had a daughter but thou hast destroyed her by Witch-
craft. Vpon wch the said Martha Thornton did catch the said
Jamefl Booth by the hair of the head and dasht his head against
a cupboard but afterwards they were quieted. Before Walter
Calverley, Esq., J.P., Esholt. Wakefield, Oct. 1690.
Hearth Tax. — "John Simpson, of IdeD, yeoman, Constable,
gave information Oct. 18th, 1686, before Walter Calverley Esq.,
J.P., that Anthony Sclater, of Idell, yeoman, in February last
did assault him when assisting Mr. Joseph Holden to collect
the hearth money there; and set his mastine dogg upon them."
Settlements. — The Churchwardens, Overseers and Inhabi-
tants of Idell, 1686, petition the magistrates, reciting that Luke
Sutcliffe, in order to gain a settlement had pretended to take a
farm of William Hillhouse of £10 rent per annum, assisted by
James Hobson, of Eccleshill, they pray for his removal to his
own town, Laurence Bucke, of Idel, churchwarden, Jas. Booth,
Thomas Slater, Joseph Vicars.
There was some disturbance about the settlement of Jeremy
Ffield at Idel in 1699, but the previous order giving him a set-
tlement, was confirmed. [I have traced the Fields from 1280,
when they were owners of land at Fieldhouse, in Sowerby, a
branch settling at Hipperholme about 1580. This Jeremy was
of the Hipperholme family, and progenitor of the Fields, Lords
of the manor of Shipley, now represented by Lady Kosse.]
Roads. — At Pontefract Sessions, 1695, two magistrates certi-
fied that Wrose Bank bad been placed in good repair.
240 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
In 1699 the inhabitants of Idel petition to be freed from an
expensive service laid upon them, by the main road passing
over a narrow strip of the township at Apperley Bridge.
To the Bight Worppfull His matyes Justices of the Peace at
Wakefield Sessions in January 1699.
The Humble Petioon of the Con[sta]ble & other Inhitants of
Idel Sheweth
That the High Boad leading from Bewick vpon Tweed, New-
castle vpon Tyne and seu'all other places in the north to Hallifax
Manchester Leverpool Chester Wales and other places adjacent
lyeth from Otley to Carleton and from thence to Yeadon and so
down a long lane called Apperley Lane in the Constablerys of
Yeadon and Bawdon to Apperly Bridge and thence in a little
track or neck of land by the Biver Ayre not above one hundred
yards in length within the Gontblery of Idel aforesaid and no
further within that Contblery but then up a Long Lane called
Eccleshill Banke to Eccleshill Town and so through Gontblery
of Eccleshill to Bradford And though the town of Idel lyeth a
mile backwards from the said Bridge out of the Boad, yet by
reason of the said little neck of Land in their Gonblery through
wch the Boad passeth, the Gonbles of Yeadon Bawdon and Ec-
cleshill aforesaid do daily bring passengers to the Conble of Idel
aforesaid to be passed to or fro (as occasion) on the said Boad
to the manifest grievance of yor Peticoners and the great hin-
drance of such passengers on their Boad, for by that means
they are put a long mile and a half at least out of theire way
besides the badness and inconveniency of the Byroad. And
though the Gonbles of Yeadon Bawdon and Eccleshill doe know
and have been often informed that they might more convenient-
ly and for quicker conveying of the said passengers bring them
from one to another without going out of the said way to Idel
yet they p'tend they cannot do it by reason of the said little
neck of land lying in Idel without an order of these sessions
for it.
Yor Peticoners therefore humbly pray that yor Wor'pps
would be pleased to grant them an Order that the said Conbles
of Yeadon Bawdon and Eccleshill may convey passengers from
one to another on the said Boad without going out of the way
to yor peticoners And that upon notice of the said Order they
yield Obedience therevnto.
And yor Peticoners shall ever pray, &c.
[An Order to be pursuant to this Petition. Becite the whole
matter.]
Tobacco. — Order requiring the law suppressing the planting
of tobacco in England to be more rigidly enforced. 1675.
J. H. T.
T. HARRISON, M INTRA. ROCKRINDRR. AC, RtNttkRY.
$n&*£ jSominum-
(Yorkshire Notes d- Queries.)
[Compiled by Mr. G. F. Tudor Shebwood, 88 Museum Street,
Oxford Street, W.]
Abbott, 112.
Adam, 109, 111.
Adamson, 167, 168, 170
Mb.
Aethelraed, 227.
Aethelatan, 227.
Aislabie, 6, 212, 210.
Akroyd, 12, 16, 17 p.,
18 bis., 54.
Albermarle, 48.
Alderburae, 63.
Alderalaye, 114, 171 bis.
Aldenon, 162.
Algetor, 161, 162, 164 p.
AUenson, 204.
Alline, 109.
AUotson, 228, 229.
Axnandus, 87.
Ames, 53.
Amyas, 90 bis.
Aneram, 5.
Anderson, 26 bis.
Andrews, Andros, And-
roys, 97, 98 p.
Annesley, 213.
Aqmtaine, 90.
Archer, 109.
Arderne, 90.
Argyll, 181.
Armitage, Axmytage, 20
p., 27, 49, 76, 101 p.,
105, 138, 152, 187,
189, 190, 198, 204 p.,
206,225.
Armstrong, 178, 179.
Arnold, 39
Arundel, 5, 109.
Ashe, 166, 167 bis., 168.
Ashley, 28.
Ashton, 115.
Ashworth, 125.
Askew, 136.
Aspiner, 117, 118, 167,
169, 170, 172.
Atberskme. 68.
Atkins, 48 bis.
Atkinson, 82 p., 48,217.
Aodland, 31.
Aorelianus, 160.
T.H.Q.
Austwicke, 108, 109 bis.,
Ill, 112, 113, 115 p.,
116, 117, 118, 166,
167 bis., 168 bis., 169,
170, 171 p. 172, p.
A'Wood, 7.
Azacher (?), 166.
Bacon, 218 p.
Baildon, 64.
Bailey, 96, 41, 50, 176,
177, 184 bis.
Baines, 32 p.
Balamany, 183.
Baldwin, 218.
Ball, 162.
Bamforth, 220 p.
Banks, 79.
Barber, 37, 141.
Barghe, 113.
Barker, 110 bis., 167,
175, 192.
Barkeston, 87.
Barnebnrgh, 89.
Barnebnrn, 87.
Barnes, 15.
Barras, 52.
Barrowby, 217.
Barton, 27.
Barwic, 54.
Bate, 75 bis.
Batley, 190.
Batt, 12, 13.
Batty, 25, 79 bis., 81 bis.,
82, 161.
Baynes, 74, 163.
Bayntnn, 22 bis., 23.
Baytman, 171
Beaumont, Bemond, 88,
94, 187, 188, 190, 206,
208.'
Beckit, 44, 109, 110,
111 bis., 113, 114 bis.,
117, 167, 168, 172.
Beckwith, 97, 212 bis.,
217,218,220,221,228.
Bedforthe, 172.
Beet, 115.
Beilly, 47.
Bell, 111 p , 112, 114,
115 bis., 118, 170.
Benson. 30.
Bent, 96.
Bentley. Bentlaye. 27,
170, 171 bis., 172.
Benton, 162.
Benyon, 125.
Berry, 29, 39, 42, 175,
176, 180.
Bertram, 218.
Beverlaye, 109, 111, 112,
116, 117.
Bewlay, 110.
Bigleskirke, 108, 116,
167, 168, 169 p., 170
p., 172.
Bigmore, 42.
Bileliffe, 216.
Billington, 39.
Binglaye, 168.
BinnB, 96.
Birtwhistle, 150, 160.
Besett. Bissett, 215.
Blackburn, 40, 41, 92,
96, 170bis., 171.
Blacketer, 41.
Blackett, 1, 4.
Blaize, 42.
Blakeley, 38.
Blakeling, 31 bis., 32 p.
Bland, 27, 47.
Blunt, 216.
Blythman, 48.
Bcehler, 66, 67 bis.
Bolderstone, 209.
Boiling, 94.
Bollon, 51.
Boniface Pope, 91
Booth, 239 p.
Borlase, 142.
Bosril, 214 p., 216 p.,
219 bis., 221 bis.
Boswell, 120.
Bourne, 163.
Bousfield, 80.
Bower, 168.
Bowling, 40.
Bowser, 73.
242
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Boyes, 138.
Boynton, 28.
Bradley, 24.
Bramha, 236.
Bramhall, 76 big.
Bramham, 167 bis., 168.
Brand, 89 bis., 188.
Brandon, 183.
Branthwaite, 32.
Brathwaito, 110, 116,169.
Braddell, 11.
Brayshaw, 28.
Brears, Bryers, 169, 170
bis.
Breman, 167.
Brigge, Briggs, 11, 37.
109, 110, 111 bis., 113
bis., 117., 167, 168,
170 bis., 171.
Bright. 42.
Bristoe, 177.
Britton, 55 p.
Broadbent, 162.
Broadlaye, 110, 111 p.,
116 p., 117 bis., 118,
171, 173.
Broadrick, 162 bis.
Broadhead, 168.
Brooke, Brook, Brooke,
28, 39, 51 bis., 87, 96
p., 98, 99, 113, 115,
116,117,141,169,171.
Brooks, 94.
Brooksbank, 29.
Brownbrigg, 108, 109.
Brace, 61, 228, 229.
Bras, 218.
Book, 26, 48, 118. 289.
Burd, 27.
Bnrdett, 236.
Burgh, 90, 203.
Burnett, 114, 115.
Burnleye, 115.
Burnouf , 59 bis.
Bnrrell, 40.
Barrow, 52.
Barrows, 75.
Barton, 78, 169 bis.
Bushel, 116, 117 bis.,
168, 169, 170 bis., 171
bis., 172.
Butler, 94 p., 96 p.
Byng, 199.
Calamy, 124.
Calcraft, 165.
Calthom, 89.
Calverley, 60, 78 p., 239
bis.
Cam, 31.
Caney, 73.
Canterbury Aby., 230.
Carnifex, 221.
Carr, 42, 184.
Carter, 5, 43.
Carver, 238 bis.
Casson. 72 p., 81.
Cavendish, 20, 21 p.
Cawbord, 49.
Cawood,168.169,170p.,
171 p., 172.
Cawthron, 163.
Chadwiok, 116, 187.
Chaloner, 22 bis.
Chamber, 93, 98.
Chappell, 65 bis., 56.
Chatburne, 109 p., 110,
111 bis., 112, 113, 114.
117.
Chauncy. 161, 162.
Chauntrve, 109, 171 bis.
Child, 116.
Childers, 165 bis.
Chippendale, 26.
Chorlton, 125 p.
Chrissmor, 204.
Clapham, 110 bis , 111,
113, 117.
Clarell, 212.
Clarence, 214.
Claridge, 16.
Clarke, 162, 199.
Clarkson, 96, 192.
Clay, 49.
Clayton, 10 bis., 11 p.,
12 p.. 13 p., 14 p., 15
p., 98, 99, 171.
Clayworth, 85.
Clif, Clyfe, 88, 109 bis.,
169, 171 bis., 172 bis.
Clifford, 29, 48.
Clifton, 88.
Cioughe, 110 bis.
Cnut, 227 p.
Coates, Coyts, 113, 138
bis.. 176.
Cockin, 74, 125, 127, 128.
Cookshott, 94, 96.
Cordington, 6.
Collres, 117.
Coldwell, 42.
Colevyle, 215.
Collins, 138.
Collyer, 96 bis., 184.
Coltass, 96.
Comber, 53.
Conder, 51.
Constantino, 48.
Cooke, 22 p., 44, 73,
165, 182, 238.
Cope, 42.
Copeland, 30.
Copley, 12, 13, 28, 48,
79 p.
Coppindale, 81.
Corlrige, 108, 109, 111,
16ft
Corker, 113, 114 p.. 115
bis., 116 p., 117 p.,
118, 167, 168, 169.
Cornewell, 75.
Corney, 32.
Cornish, 182 bis.
Costable. 111.
Cotton, 124, 160.
Coward, 125.
Cowell, 50, 51.
Cownall. 213.
Cowper, 99 bis., 100.
Cowpland, 47.
Crabtree, 10 p., 14 bis.,
75.
Crawshaye, 167.
Cropping, 212.
Cresey, 213.
Cressacre, 203.
Crew, 53.
Cric, 122.
Crigan, 18.
Croft, 17, 82, 47, 138.
Crofts, 17.
Crosley, 18 bis.
Cromwell, 140.
Crowther, 204.
Cumberland, 197.
Cumming, 56.
Cunningham, 125.
Carson, 212.
D'Abernoun, 63.
D'Arcy, 5 bis.
Dalkeith, 5.
Dalton, 88.
Darby, 201.
Darwin, 139.
Davenport, 122.
Davidson, 108.
Davies, 43, 232.
Davis, 133.
Davison, 110.
Dawney, 5.
Dawson, 29, 89, 177, 190.
Dealtry, 79. 82.
Dean, 175 bis.
Deane, 27.
Deighton, 81.
De Lacy, 214.
INDEX NOMINUM.
248
Delamere, 183 bis.
Dent, 32.
Denton, 46, 47.
Derby, 71 bis., 73 bis.,
78.
Detley, 220.
Dewsberry, 120.
Dickinson, Dickinson,
19, 29, 32.
Dickson, 125.
Digby, 89.
Dobeon, 117, 118, 167,
170.
Doddridge, 125, 177, 186.
Dodgson, 110, 111 bis.,
117, 167, 168 p., 169
bis., 170, 171 bis., 172.
Dodson, 51, 113, 114.
Dodsworth, 28, 49, 74
bis, 83.
Donlrin, 115, 116.
Dorker, 113, 115.
Downe, 5, 25.
Dowoit, 120.
Draper, 17 bis.,
Drurye, 170, 171.
Dugdale, 80.
Duncombe, 6, 21 bis.,
138 bis.
Dnndas, 21 bis., 22 p.,
23.
Dunnill, 44.
Dvight, 119 bis., 120.
Dyghton, 100.
Dyson, 43.
Eidgar, 227.
Eadmund, 227.
Eadyig, 227.
Eanbald, 227.
Ecgfrith, 227.
Edmunds, 73.
Edward Confessor, 227.
Elgood\37.
Eliot, 168.
Ellis, 27, 115, 169.
Elmsall, 81.
Eltoff, 199,
Empson, 28, 167.
England, 68 p.
Eoferwic, 227.
Ergnm, 89.
Erwin, 74 bis.
Esh, 112, 116, 117 bis.,
118, 167, 168 bis., 170
P., 171.
Essex, 179.
Encker, 165.
Everingbam, 43, 111.
Eyre, 45.
Eylmyn, 213.
Fairfax, 20 bis., 45, 48,
222 p., 238.
Farrand, 13, 115, 116
Mb., 117, 167.
Farrer, 12, 13, 51, 138.
Fawcett, 32.
Fawconer, 111, 112.
Fawkes, 41.
Fayle, 52.
Fearnlaye, 169 bis , 171.
Fenton, 40.
Field, 79, 81, 239.
Fieldhouse, 96.
Finch, 5.
Firth, 176 p., 177 bis.,
184 p., 185, 186.
Fitz-Bardolph, 174.
Fitz-Daniel, 221.
Flamevill, 87.
Flandrensis, 88.
Fleming, 83, 87, 88 p.,
105.
Fletcher, 86.
Foljomb, 212 bis.
Foolde, Foulds, Folds,
108, 110, 116, 117,
166, 167 p., 168, 169
bis., 170 p., 171 bis.
Foores, 117, 168.
Forno, 230.
Forster, 163, 166.
Fox, 5, 20, 30 bis., 31 p.
Frances, 116.
Franke, 118, 208.
FrankJand, 6 bis., 124 p.
Fricklaye, 108, 110 bis.,
113, 117 bis., 169 bis.,
170.
Frilend, 63.
Fuller, 93, 98.
Fnrnival, 72 bis., 220 p.
Fyshe, 114.
Galway, 6 p., 21 bis.
Gargrave, 100.
Garner, 172.
Gaunt, 213.
Gaythorne, 74.
Gee, 110, bis.
Geffirason, 112.
Gennings, 96.
Gerard, 183 p.
Geryas, 25 p.
Gibson, 27, 49, 73, 204
bis.
Gilbert, 87.
Gill, 26, 42.
Gledhill, 29, 204.
Glover, 166.
Godartins, 53.
Golding, 32.
Goldsbrough, 96.
Goodrich, 199.
Gosling. 162.
Gott, 172.
Gough, 105, 118.
Gourd, 39.
Graham, 39.
Graunt, 81.
Gray, 32, 179, 183.
Greaves, 41.
Green, 20 bis., 61, 54, 56,
111 bis., 112 bis., 114,
115, 116, 117, 118,
123, 167 bis., 169.
Greens, 54 bis., 55, 56.
Greenwood, 32, 38, 49,
81, 86, 110 bis., Ill
bis., 187.
Gregg, 73.
Gregory, 44.
Grenfield, 113, 115 p.,
116, 118 p., 166, 168,
169, 170, 172.
Grenegate, 88.
Grey, 183.
Greystock, 230.
Griffith, 162.
Grosvenor, 72 p.
Gutch, 104.
Guthred, 227.
Gyles, 53.
H., 62.
Habergham, 74.
Hague, 47 bis.
Haigh, 190.
Hailes, 75.
Hailstone, 123.
Hainsworth, 55 bis.
Hakebourne, 63.
Halilaye, Helilaye, 118,
167, 168 bis.
Hall, 37 bis., 108, 110
bis., Ill bis., 112, 113
p., 115, 116, 117, 138,
167 bis., 175 bis., 176
p., 17* bis., 185, 190.
HaUey, 124 bis.
Halliday, 40, 46, 47 bis.
Hambden, 183.
Hammond, 161, 162 bis.
Hancock, 46.
Handasyd, 5.
Hanson, 160, 175.
244
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Hardacres, 47.
Hardcastle, 175.
Harde, 167.
Hardy, 204.
Harewood, 226.
Hargraves, 43.
Harold, 227 bis.
Harper, 40, 236.
Harris, 165.
Harrison, 32, 76, 118,
236.
Hartley, 24, 54 p., 55,
56, 67, 123, 189, 199.
Hartyndon, 108.
Hasse, 66 bis., 68.
Hattersley, 43.
Hauptman, 67.
Haveweldun, 88.
Hawke, 21 p.
Hawkswortb, 94, 116,
117 bis., 118, 167, 169,
170, 171 bis.
Hazlitt, 212, 216.
Heald, 38, 39, 40.
Heap. 236.
Heard, 239.
Hearne, 151.
Heatb, 81.
Heather, 170.
HeatoD, 10 bis., 114 bis.,
115 bis., 116, 118, 167
bis., 168 bis., 169 bis.,
203, 206 bis.
Heddersley, 203.
Hemingway, 27.
Heptinstall, 108, 112.
Hepworth, 41, 113, 116,
188, 192 bis.
Herbert, 230.
Herring, 197.
Hewett, 47.
Hewley, 129.
Herwood, 46 p., 81, 124,
175, 177 bis., 180, 184.
Hickman, 124 p.
Hicks, 85.
Hill, 6, 85, 125.
Hillhoupe, 239.
Hinchliffe. 45, 109 bis.,
114, 116, 117 p.
Hirst, 27, 113, 188, 189,
190, 195, 19fr, 207.
Hitchin, 125.
Hobkirk, 105.
Hobson, 170, 289.
Hodgson, 32, 40, 51, 70,
81. 114, 115 bis., 116 p.
Holderness, 75, 161.
Holdon, 94bie,96p,239.
Holdroyd, 28.
Holdsworth, 191, 196,
239.
Hollinworthe, 111.
Holloway, 77.
Holme, 32.
Holmes, 29, 66, 96, 163.
Holroyd, 226.
Holt, 190.
Hood, 82, 103, 105, 206.
Hop, 63.
Hopkins, 161.
Hopkinson, 108, 109,
110 p., Ill bis.
Hopton, 87, 191 p., 203
bis., 206 bis.
Hopwood 72 bis.
Hornby, 71 bis.
Horncastle, 113, 114 p.,
115, 116, 118, 167, 168
bis., 169.
Horner, 109 bis., Ill bis.,
118, 114, 169.
Horsfall, 29, 204.
Horsley, 160.
Horton, 26, 70 p , 71 p.,
72 p., 73 p., 74.
Hotham, 130.
Houghton, 45, 54, 119 p.
Howard, 165, 181, 183.
Howden, 22 bis.
Howet, Hawet, J 09 bis.,
110 p., Ill bis., 112
bis., 113, 114 bis., 115
bis., 116,117, 118 bis.,
166, 167 p., 168, 169
p., 171 bis., 172 bis.
Howgill, 31, bis.
Howson, 223,
Hudson, 94 p., 96.
Hugh, 171, 172.
Hulme, 177, 186.
Humble, 54.
Hunlaf, 227.
Hunt, 41, 214.
Hunter, 51, 81, 105 bis.,
124 bis.
Hnntingden, 110, 112
biB , 113, 114, 115 p.,
HObis., 117 bis., 167
169, 171 bis., 173 bis.
Huntington, 118.
Hurst, 190.
Hurstwood, 121.
Hutchinson, 109, 111.
Huthwaite, 177.
Hutton, 47 bis.
Hyrst, 192.
Hyrd,29.
Ibbotson, 20.
Illingworth, 28.
Ingham, 66 bis., 101,
190 bis.
Ingram, 6 bis., 74.
Irwin, 6.
Ismay, 84, 85 bis.,86, 204.
Isat, 168.
Izat, 115, 116 bis., 117
bis., 171, 172.
Jackson, 49, 110 bis.,
Ill, 112 p., 113 p.,
114 bis., 115, 117, 133,
166, 168, 169, 171 bis.
Jagger, 50, 51.
Jarcks, 168.
Jecorngill, 13.
Jefferey, 180, 182.
Jefferson, 112, 139 bis.,
141.
Jenkins, 20 bis.
Jenkinson, 115 bis, 116
bis., 117 bis., 170.
Jennings, 29, 177.
Jessop, 11.
Jewit, 120, 122.
Jollic, 124 bis., 177.
Jolliff, 20, 166 bis.
John, 87.
Johnson, 120 bis., 135,
168, 169.
Jowett, 49.
Eaye, 20 p., 26, 27, 43,
48 bis., 76, 117, 171,
172, 189, 190.
Kean, 41, 77.
Keen, 198.
Keith, 138.
Kemp, 41.
Kendall, 40.
Kenerley, 236.
Kent, 43, 161, 162 bis.,
163, 164, 165 p., 214.
Kenyon, 75.
Kepast, Kepax, Keps, 86,
87.
Kerfoot, 73 bis.
Kerr, 5.
Kershaw, 76.
Kighley, 99, 181 bis.
Kirkby, 78, 125 p.
King, 183.
Kitson, 29.
Lake, 168.
Lambe, 112, 167, 170,
171, 172.
INDEX NOMINUM.
245
Lambert, 50, 161, 174.
Lancaster, 27.
Lane. 20 p., 21.
Langdale, 47, 68 bis., 70.
Langton, 32 big.
Langwith, 96.
Larthner, 231, 232.
La9celle3, 5 bis., 6 bis.
Latham, 125.
La Trobe, 65, 67, 68.
Law, 28.
Lawson, 52.
Lawton, 80.
Ledgard, 187 bis., 188
p., 190 bis.
Lee. 39, 52, 93, 108, 172,
187.
Lees, 133.
Legh,73bis., 74.
Lepton. 88.
Le Strange, 183.
Lethall, 118.
Letteron, 111 bis., 112
bis., 113 bis., 114.
Lettewelle, 217.
Lewis, 80.
Lillington, 163.
Linfield, 111.
Linnecar, 39.
Lister, 6, 19 p., 29, 160,
175 bis., 176, 177, 178,
179, 184 p., 185 p.,
186 p.
Litchford, 165 bis.
Lbyd, 71 p., 73 p., 75.
Lobley, 94.
Lockley 96.
London, 221.
Long, 96.
Longley, 51.
Longstaff, 174.
Lorraine, 43.
Lothian, 5.
Louther, 12.
Lorain, 218.
Lowther, 23, 43, 74.
Ludlow, 166 p.
Lund, 26 bis.
Lyard, 167.
Ljwegge 89 P-
Macan,177.
MariU, 41 bis.
Makin, 109.
Malhaos, 24.
MalhoTors, 232.
Mtlhom, 89 bis.
MaUerye, 167, 168, 169
bis.
Mallinson, 169.
Malore, 219.
Manners, 5.
Manser, 169.
Marchlund, 116.
Margerison, 192 p., 204.
Margison, 109 bis.
Marriott, 72 bis.
Marryatt, 123.
Marsden, 176, 177 bis.,
184.
Marshall, 81.
Martin, 106.
Maser, 169.
Mason, 32, 117, 162, 163,
168 bis., 169.
Matthews, 41.
Maude, 40, 41, 96 bis,,
106.
Mauley, 118, 212.
Mawhood, 238.
Mawson, 109.
Maxfield, 182.
Maylins, 75.
Medhurst, 39.
Medope, 109, 115 116
bis., 117 bis., 118.
MenyU, 230.
Mercer, 221.
Meteyard, 122.
Metham, 89, 219.
Mexbro', 138 p.
Miall, 47, 124 bis.
Micklethwaite, 103, 190.
Midleton, 168, 169, 170.
Milner. 20 p., 21 p., 22
p., 29, 51, 75, 112, 163.
Milnerson, 111, 113, 114.
Milnes, 21 p.
Mirfield, 89 p., 90, 203.
Modestus, 159.
Moidre, 112.
Moisier, 18, 53.
Moksone, 236.
Molt, 24.
Monkhouse, 40.
Monkton, 6 Mr., 47.
Monmouth, 179, 181 bis.,
182.
Monson, 5.
Montgomery, 68.
More, 100, 171.
Morley, 76, 112, 169.
Morris, 38, 227.
Morritts, 48.
Moseley, 72.
Mostyn, 5, 6, 72 p.
Mounger, 88.
Mounteney, 90 bis.
Mowbray, 215.
Moxon, 51.
Muletorp, 219.
Muller, 59.
Munket, 168.
Murray, 5, 53.
Musgrave, 138.
Naylor, 37 bis., 79.
Neai, 122, 177.
Nelson, 82, 111, 113,
114, 169, 171.
Ness, 176, 177, 184.
Nettleton, 81 bis.
Neuell, 12, 13.
Nevill, 74, 76, 206.
Nevin, 187.
Newall, 110.
Newby, 94, 96.
Newmarch, 213.
Newnham, 6.
Newton, 161.
Nichols, 41, 44.
Nightingale, 127.
Noble, 124, 169, 177, 184.
Norfolk, 221,
Norris, 190.
Northrop, 213, p.
Norton, 109 p., 110 bis.,
Ill p., 112, 113 p.,
114, 115, 116, 117 p.,
168, 169, 170 p., 171,
172 p., 173.
Nowell, 11.
Nussey, 38.
Nut, 172.
Oastler, 68.
Ockershausen, 67.
O'Conner, 43.
Oddie, 28, 41.
Oglethorp, 81.
OUerton, 23, 24.
Orde, 138.
Osbert, 218.
Owen, 125.
Owens, 162.
Oxley, 190.
Padget, 110, 111, 112,
113, 114, 117 bis., 118,
168 bis., 169, 170.
Palin, 19.
Palmes, 74.
Pape, 26.
Park, 114, 117, 171, 174,
Parker, 11, 27, 50, 169,
170.
Parkinson, 118, 172,
246
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Parrott, 82.
Parsons, 54, 79.
Paslaye, 117, 118, 168,
172 bis.
Payler, 73.
Pearson, 11, 29 bis., 108,
111,112,113,116,117.
Pease, 75.
Peirse, 6.
Peoples.Peobles, Peebles,
188
Peel, 112 bis., 113, 116,
117, 168.
Pelham, 6.
Pemberton, 13.
Pennock, 230.
Percy, 218, 228, 229.
Perke, 172.
Perkins, 162.
Perrot, 17.
Peter, 87, 118.
Petre, 22 bis.
Philips, 197.
Philipson, 75.
Pickering, 81, 109 bis.,
110, 111, 112 bis., 113,
114, 115, 116, 117,
118, 167, 168 bis.
Pighels, 10, 11 bis., 14 p.
Pilkington, 6, 49, 97 bis.,
228.
Pincerna, 215.
Pitt, Pitts, 6, 44.
Place, 52, 53 p., 54 p.,
119 p., 121.
Planohe, 120.
Plantagnett, 81.
Pollard, 28, 236.
Popplewell, 99.
Popelay, 89.
Portington, 74.
Poulson, 230.
Powell, 74.
Preston, 119, 122.
Price, 177.
Prickett, 163.
Priestley, 71 bis., 72 bis.,
98, 125.
Priestman, 96.
Prince, 116, 117, 167,
168, 170, 172 bis.
Proctor, 114.
Pyke, 171.
Pyman, 114.
Qnincy, 175.
Qninciano, 174.
Raistracke, 239.
Ramsden, 6, 42, 48, 49,
97 p., 98, 100 p., 114.
Ranolde, Renold, 116,
118, 168 p., 169 bis.,
170.
Rather, 42.
Raven, 166.
Bawling, 118 bis., 167.
Rawson, 72 bis., 108,
115 p., 116 p.. 117,
118 bis., 166, 168, 171.
Ray, 81.
Reame, 111.
Redman, 109, 111, 113,
114 bis., 115, 116, 168,
170.
Reresby, 73.
Reyner, Rayner, Rainer,
26 bis., 27, 29, 47 bis.
Rhodes, 26, 187 p.
Rich, 45, 46 p.
Richardson, 28, 37, 38
bis., 81, 124, 138.
Ridgnal, 118.
Ridiall, 118, 167 bis.,
168 bis., 169, 170 bis.
Rikysbere, 93.
Ripon Bp., 96.
Rish worth, 43, 44 bis.,
166.
Ritson, 104.
Roades, 113.
Robart, 14 Mb.
Roberts, 39 bis., 81, 109,
110,113,114 bis, 115
p., 116, 117, 169, 236.
Robertson, 177.
Robinson, 5, 17, 20 p.,
30,31, 32, 41, 112 bis.,
113 bis., 115, 161 bis.,
163 p., 164, 168 bis.
Robson, 40, 138 Mb.
Rockingham, 21.
Rodwell, 108, 110, 111.
Roeley, 88.
Roger, 109, 110, 111 p.,
115.
Rogers, 39.
Rokeby, 28.
Roods, 169.
Rooks, 180, 181 bis.
Rooks, 87.
Root, 176 bis.
Roper, 173, 212.
Rose, 39.
Rotherham, 125.
Royes, Royds, 112, 113,
171.
Rumsey, 183 bis.
Rushworth, 213.
Raskin, 1.
Russell, 179 p., 180, 182.
Rastbie, 109.
Rutland, 5,
Ryan, 40.
Ryche, 93.
Rycroft, 46 Ms.
Ryther, 177, 184.
St. Asaph, Bp., 199.
St. George, 80.
8t. John, of Beverley, 7.
Salt, 96, 224 p., 226 p.
Saltershall, 87.
Saltonstall, 68 p.
Samson, 236.
Sandall, 29, 90 bis.
Sanderson, 45, 173.
Sandford, 200.
Sandson, 168.
Saunder, 168.
Savile, 5, 48, 76, 79, 97
p., 100, 160, 190, 202,
203, 206, 219 Ms.
Scatcherd, 38, 79 p.
Scales, 125.
Schliemann, 59.
Scholaye, 109, 110 bis..
Ill p., 114 bis., 115,
116, 117 bis., 167, 168,
170 bis.
Scholayn, 167.
Scholefteld, 39.
Scorer, 172.
Scott, 44, 125 p., 126
Ms., 127 p., 129, 215.
Screvyn, 85.
Scroope, Scrope, 91, 212.
Scruton, 96.
Scryvyner, 169 bis.
Seaton, 138.
Sedgwick, 37.
Sedman, 228.
Seebohn, 68.
Segar, 181.
Senhouse, 138.
Senior, 87, 88 p., 188,
195, 204.
Seyvill, 85 bis., 89.
Shackleton, 29, 40.
Shaftsbury, 179.
Sharp, 24 p., 29 bis., 40,
44.
Shaw, 40, 47, 72 bis., 79
p., 81, 117, 167, 168
Ms., 171. 172, 188.
8haye, 167.
Sheard, 190,195,201,209
INDEX N0M1NUM.
247
Shepherd, 115, 199.
Shepley, 191, 209.
Shildon, 48.
Shillito, 111 bis., 114,
115, 116, 117, 167 bis.,
171, 172 bis.
Short, 29.
Shaft, 26, 182.
Sigston, 50, 51.
Sill. 52.
Simson, Simpson, 109
bis., 110 p.. Ill bis,
112, 113 bis., 167, 168,
169 p., 170, 171, 172,
239.
Slack, 73.
Slater, Sclater, 28, 94
bis., 239 p.
Slingsby, 5.
Smallwood, 177.
Smith, 9 bis., 10 p., 11
p., 12 p., 13 p., 14 p.,
16 p., 17, 28, 39, 51,
87, 96, 110, 121, 166,
167, 168, 175, 176,
177, 178, 179, 180 bis ,
184, 190, 236.
Smithies, 224.
Bmithson, 74, 173.
Smythe, 81, 118, 169,
171 bis., 172 bis., 173.
Snawden, 50.
Soetzler, 67.
Somerscales, 118.
Bonthcoat, 41.
Sonthwood, Sawood, 99
bis.
Spangenberg, 67.
8parke, 98 bis., 99 bis.
Speight, 32.
Spencer, 116, 118.
Spode, 122.
8tagge, 116, 172.
Btancliffe, 190.
Stanhope, 48 p., 228.
Stansfeld, 42, 86.
SUpleton, 191.
Stapyltoc, 5.
Steade, 112.
Stephenson, 138.
Sterne, 63.
Stevens, 84.
Btileman, 27.
8tiUinge,109p.,110bis.,
Ill, 112, 113, 114,
168, 171 bis.
Stock*, 43.
Stones. 82, 99.
Btopforth, 176, 178.
Stopler, 164.
Stormont, 5.
Strange, 78.
Strangways, 96.
Strawbenzee, 41.
Streaker, 238 bis.
Stretton, 129.
Stringer, 48, 74 bis.
Stuart, 166.
Stnbbs, 52, 88.
Staynton, 85 p., 103, 105.
Sogden, 116 p.
Sunderland, 68 p., 69,
81, 169.
Surrey, 83.
Sutcliffe, 239.
Swaine, 29, 96.
Swallow, 167, 168.
Swift, 46 bis., 195.
Swinbunke, 51.
Sykes,22p.,75bis.,162,
163, 190, 192.
Taptou, 113.
Tarlton, 85.
Tasbnrgh, 100.
Tattershnll, 87.
Taylor, Tayler, Tailior,
10 bis , 11 bis., 14 p.,
15, 31, 44. 79, 125, 169
170 bis., 172, 180.
Terry, 39.
Tester, 78.
Thacker, 115, 116 bis.,
117, 118, 168, 170, 171
Thackrah, 29, 39, 167.
Thirnbeck, 32 bis.
Thomas, 209.
Thomlinson, 81.
Thompson, Thomson. 20
p., 82 p., 42, 53, 94,
96 p., 114, 163, 172,
221.
Thoresby, 51, 52, 53 bis.,
122.
Thornbory, 1.
Thornhill, 69.
Thornton, 5, 20 p., 239 p.
Thorold, 165 p., 222.
Thorp, 45, 205.
Thnrgarland, 187.
Thwaytes, 215.
Tillitson, 12.
Tindall, 51
Tiplinge. 109, 169.
Todd, 196.
Toeltschig. 66 bis., 67.
Toothill, 125.
Topcliffe, 86.
Toir, 86, 167.
Townley, 74.
Tradley, 184.
Trnvis, 163.
Treichard, 26, 179.
Troos, 110.
Trotter, 32.
Troughton, 117.
Turker, 170.
Turner, Tornar, 1, 9 bis.,
10, 14 p., 15, 20 bis.,
21 p., 31, 40, 51, 105,
135,162,175,195,200,
210, 211.
Tnrton, 208.
TweUall, 110 bis.
Tyas, 87.
Tyler, 88.
Tyreinan, 52.
Uffett, 177,
Ulf, 222, 223, 230.
Upperdale, 42.
Usher, 1671
Utley, 52.
Vallibus, 220.
Vavasor, 47.
Venables, 161.
Verelot, 161 p., 162 p.,
163 bis.. 164 p., 166.
Verity, 133.
Vernon, 5.
Vestris, 42.
Vicars, 239.
Victoria, 43.
Vigmund, 227 bis.
Vint, 127.
Vulfhere, 227.
Wade, 13, 28, 48, 197,
221.
Wadsworth, 124, 125,
236 p., 237 p , 238.
Wardsworth, 216.
Wager, 168.
Wailes, 44.
Wainwright, 24, 40, 54
bis., 55 bis., 219.
Wakefield, 27.
Walbank, 76.
Wales, 177, 180.
Walker, 32 p., 71 p., 72,
94 bis., 96 p., 109 bis.,
110 bis.. 113 bis., 114
p, 115 bis., 116 p., 117
bis., 118,127,138,169
Walkingham, 218 bis.
Wall, 120.
248
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Walpole, 52 bis., 54.
Warbnrton, 55 bis.
Ward, 31,38,70,72,116
168, 170 big., 172.
Waringe, 166, 168.
Warren, 83, 223.
Warton, 173.
Waterton, 74.
Watkin, 111.
Watson, 5, 68, 151 bis.,
154, 159 bis., 167, 223
Watteville, 67.
Watts, 72 bis., 168, 191.
Waun, 169.
Webber, 41.
Wedgwood, 54, 121.
Wells, 73.
Wentworth, 19, 20 bis.,
21. 41, 78 p., 215.
Wesley, 66.
Westbie, Westabye, 113
bis,.
Wester-man, 44.
Weston, 207.
Wetherhead, 110 bis.,
Ill p., 113, 115, 116,
118, 167.
Whalleye, 115.
Wharncliffe, 42.
Wharton, 48, 188 bis.
Wheatley, 189, 190 p.
Wheeler, 200.
Whit, 12, 13.
Whitaker, Whiticars, 79,
83 bis., 85, 103, 115,
116, 117, 159, 166, 167,
168,169,171,177,183,
184, 186.
White, 40, 76, 78, 110,
113.
Whitehead, 24, 169.
Whitehurst, 176, 177.
Whittingdale, 137.
Widap, 16.
Wilbye, 112.
Wilcocke, 108, 199.
Wilkinson, 6, 26, 109,
169 p., 170 bis., 171
bis., 172 p., 190, 236.
Williams, 129.
Williamson, 170, 171 p.,
172.
Willinge, 203.
Willis, 86, 90.
Wills, 171 bis.
Wilson, 22, 27, 29, 32
bis., 45, 51, 52 bis.,
112,116,117,118,167
bis., 169, 170 bis., 172,
173, 214, 220 p., 221
bis., 223 bis.
Winchester, 5.
Winckley, 73 bis.
Windebanke, 117.
Windham, 213.
Winn, 32.
Wintringham, 81.
Woderone, 90 bis.
Wommersley, 192, 236.
Wood, 42, 47, 114, 118,
167, 172.
Woodhouse, 26 bis.
Woofenden, 27.
Wooilin, 52.
Woolner, 190 bis.
Wordsworth, 45 p.. 46,
161 p., 162 p., 163 p.,
164 p., 165 p., 166 p.,
204, 236 p., 237 p..
238 p.
Wormald, 112 bis., 169,
170, 171.
WormaU, 109 bis, 110 p,
111 p, 113 p, 114 p,
115, 116, 117 p.
Wortley, 6.
Wraith, 187 bis.
Wray, 94.
Wright, 47, 110, 111, 113
Mb, 114, 117 bis, 171.
Wrightson, 138.
Wrigley, 99.
Wnlnoth, 227.
Wyndham, 58.
Wyntworth, 222.
Wyse, 169.
Wyvill, 22 bis.
Yarbnrgh, 28, 73.
Yordas, 137.
York, Abp., 76, 115, 118,
201 bis., 223.
Yorke, 5, 186, 228.
Young, 77.
Zinzendorf, 67 bis., 200.
Zoust, 53.
|nb*£ Eocorum.
[Compiled by Mr. G. F. Tudor Sherwood, 88, Museum St.,
Oxford Street, W.]
Abberforth, 144.
Abbotside, 173, 174.
Acaster, 144.
Ackworth, 52, 108, 129,
146, 166.
Addingham, 149.
Adlingflete, 146.
Adwalton, 80.
Adwyke, 149.
Agbrigg, 75, 76, 142, 189
Airedale, 127.
Airton, 142.
Akeroid Lane, 209.
Alcot, 72.
Aldborongh, 6.
Aldebnrgh, 148.
Aldfleld, 147.
Alersford, 192.
Alford, 24.
Alkley, 148.
Allaneley, 143.
Allerton, 142, 144, 145,
178 p., 179. 180.
Allerton Gledhow, 143.
Allerton Mauleverer, 5,
147.
Almondbury, 48, 75, 99.
142, 145.
Alne, 194.
Alnwick Castle, 61.
Altofts. 142, 146.
Alton, 148.
Alum Pot, 138.
Alverthorpe, 39.
Amonderness, 12.
Ampelford, 223.
Amthoyre, 148.
Aneoates, 72.
Anderness, 166.
INDEX LOCORUM.
249
ApperlftT Bridge, 240 bis.
Apperley Lane, 240.
Appleby, 6. 31.
Appleion, 144, 194.
Apyltreweke, 149.
Ardsley, 78, 79 p., 80 p.,
81 p.. 82, 142, 146.
Ardyslowe, 145.
Arksey, 238.
Armrne, 146.
Arncliffe, 149, 194.
Arthington, 144.
Ashton, 148, 163.
A&ke, 5.
Askrigg, 174. 175.
Askwyth, 147.
Aston, 161, 162 p.
Atheriawe, 147.
Atherton, 47 bis.
Atsham, 144.
Atwick, 149, 157, 158,
212 p.
Attercliffe, 124.
Aughton. 75. 162.
Ansterfeild. 198.
Auston, 146, 148.
Awsthorpe, 148.
Awstwyke, 150.
Ajkton, 145.
Ayre, R. 240.
Ayrton, 149.
Backstone Gill Hole, 135
Badenham, 17.
Badsworth, 28, 146.
Baildon, 64, 66, 68, 94,
96, 143.
Balaton, 118, 212 bis.
Balance Beck, 207 bid.
Balmce Wood. 210.
Baldersly, 216.
Ballye, 148.
Bansted, 166 bis.
Barghe, 147.
Barkerend, 24.
Barkeston, 87, 144.
Barley, 144.
Barmby, 148.
Bannston, i9.
. Barnbrogh, 148.
Barnby-upon-Dunn, 74.
Bamsley, 1. 26 bis., 41,
42, 64, 146, 189.
Banland, 142.
Barugh, 223 bis.
Barwick, 12, 47 p., 143.
Baschebi. 223.
Baiedale, 85.
Baihame, 150.
Bath, 60, 199.
Batley, 17 bis., 11, 27,
37, 38, 48, 89 bis., 100
bis., 142, 144.
Battersea. 166.
Bawtry, 52, 148.
Baysfield, 162.
Beall, 146.
Bedal, 6, 29.
Beezley Falls, 135.
Beiston, 142.
Bell Hill, 142.
Benthame, 150.
Benthon, 46.
Bentley. 148, 212.
Bergh, 89.
Berrey, 47.
Benton, 145.
Bettain, 237.
Beverley, 6 bis., 53, 153,
193.
Bewick-upon-Tweed, 240
Billingley, 215 bis.
Bingley, 55, 152, 184.
Birchwaye. 89.
Birdoswald. 61.
Birstall, 125, 202, 204.
Blacker Hall, 42.
Blacwell Hall, 19.
Blake Hall, 101, 191 p.,
206, 210.
Blakehill, 200.
Blakeiai a, 83.
Blakstou. 148.
Bleak Low Lane, 83.
Blea Moor, 137.
Boathonse, 191, 210.
Bollinge. 112, 145.
Holsterstone Chapel, 194
Boltby Chapel, 194.
Bolton. 142, 145, 149 bis.
Bolton Percy, 29.
Boroughbridge. 5, 6.
Boston Spa, 72.
Bournans, 196.
Bousland, 145.
Bow, 120.
Bowling, 23.
Bowton, 47.
Bracken Hall, 210.
Bracken Hall Glen, 106.
Brackenthwaite, 200.
Bradfeld, 148.
Bradford, 8 bis., 9, 10,
16, 24 p.. 29, 42, 47 bis.
48,68.77,80,142,153,
176, 181, 189 bis., 213
bis., 224,225, 226 bis.,
230, 239 bis., 240.
Bradforth, 13, 23, 145,
150.
Bradforthdale, 12.
Bradley, 149.
Bradley Hall, 151, 160.
Bradley Wood, 49.
Bradsburton Cross, 166.
Bradsworth, 149.
Braithwell, 218 p.
Bramcroft, 146.
Bramham, 144 bis., 199.
Bramham Park, 5, 20.
Bramley, 142, 145, 148.
Bramton, 148 p.
Bramwyth, 146.
Braswell, 149.
Brawby, 223.
Brawell, 148.
Brearley, 146.
Brearton, 148.
Brememium, 61.
Bretton Hall, 1, 191 bis.
Breton. 144, 145.
Brier Knowles, 210.
Briery Bank, fclO/211.
Brig Flat, 30, 31.
Brighouse, 74, 160, 225.
Bristol, 45, 120, 132.
Brockwell, 72.
Brode Ynge, 92.
Brook House, 214 bis.
Broomhead, 214, 220 p.,
223.
Brotherton, 144 bis., 214
bis.
Bronghton, 146, 149.
Bruges, 186.
Brussels, 186.
Buerley, 18.
Bulden, 150.
Bu'lhouse, 40 p , 46 p.,
47.
Buhner, 167.
Bungay, 192.
Burgwallis, 49, 146 bis.
Burgbrigge, 148.
Burley, 144.
Burlington Key, 47.
Burne, 144.
Burnsall, 27 bis., 149.
Burstall, 28.
Burton, 144, 145, 148,
150.
Burton Constable, 154 bis
Burton Agnes, 29.
Burton Grange, 163, 164,
165.
Burton-lane-head, 45.
Butterington, 114.
250
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Byachworth, 146.
Byerley, 144.
Byland, 85.
Byllome, 148.
Byngeley, 144.
Byram, 6, 144.
Byrkyii, 144.
Cadebie, 148.
Calder, R.. 43, 152, 197,
201.
Calfe Crofte, 92.
Calton, 149.
Calverley, 78, 142, 144,
195.
Calverts Clough, 210.
Cambodunum, 152, 159.
Cambridge, 17 bis.
Campsall, 14C, 208.
Cams-gill, 31.
Cantley, 148.
Carhousc, 148.
Carlcoats, 214 bis.
Carlisle, 197.
Carleton, 76, 143, 114,
146, 149, 214 p., 240.
CaBtilfelde, 92.
Castlefurth, 146.
Castle Hall. 205, 206, 208
Castley, 147.
Cattal, 5.
Cawode, 144.
Cawthome, 76, 147.
Chadderton, 70, 71, 72.
Chadwick Wood, 210.
Chalons, 84.
Chamber, 73.
Chancery Lane, 164.
Chapel-le-Dale, 135.
Chapel Wells, 86 bis.
Charter He use, 163.
Chelsea, 120.
Cherry Burton, 29.
Chester, 45, 132, 199, 240
Chette, 146.
Church Lane, 209.
Cindcrhill, 210.
Citeaux or Cisteaux, 84
bis.
Clapdale Beck, 137.
Clapham, 137, 150.
Claro, 147.
Clayborne, 192.
Clayhouse, 49, 74.
Clayton, 89,145. 146, 148
Cleckheaton, 142, 144.
Clent, 193.
Clifford, 144.
Clifton, 51, 83, 88, 97
bis., 100 bia., 142,145.
Clifton Flat, 92.
Clitheroe, 6.
Clothorme, 147.
Cloughbank, 10.
Clyent, 147.
Colchester, 61, 62, 200.
Coley, 70, 152, 194 bis.,
234.
Collinge, 149.
Collingham, 144.
Collyston, 144.
Colne, R., 83.
Colthorpe, 147.
Conington, 160.
Coni6borough, 148, 213
bis., 214 bis.
Constantinople, 199.
ConyBton, 149 bis.
Cote Flat. 92.
Cote Wall. 191.
Cotham, 223.
Cotingham, 214 bis.
Coulton, 223.
Cowe-forde, 92, 189.
Co wick, 5.
Crakeowe, 149.
Craven, 197.
Credlinge, 146.
CreKjlston, 142, 145.
Crofton 93, 324.
Cros* Greon Lane, 209.
Cross i'th 'Dean, 152.
Crossland. 152, 145, 152.
Cross-leigh. 152.
Crossley, 209 bis.
Cross-stone, 152.
Croston, 142, 145.
Crow Mount, 206.
Crow Nest, 71, 72, 226.
Crow Wood, 210.
Crynglington, 150.
Cuckoo Hill, 210.
Cuckwold, 215 bis.
Cudworth, 26.
Cnllingworth, 87, 93.
Cumberworth, 142, 145,
204.
Dalc-bech, 135 bis.
Dale Graingo, 174.
Dull Lane, 209.
Dalton,142,145,219bis.
Danbye Grange, 93.
Danegate, 215 bis.
Danish Mount, 205.
Dartield, 29, 148, 236.
Dariogton. 146.
Darton, 64, 93.
Daventry, 47, 125.
Dawgreen, 196.
Dean Chapel, 194.
Deanhead Chapel, 194
bis., 195.
Dearham, 60.
Delft. 70.
Deuby, 98, 99, 146, 149.
Dent, 32, 150.
Denston, 234.
Denton, 147 bis.
Derby, 120.
Derton, 89.
Derwent Edge, 45.
Dewsbory, 27, 39, 42,
142. 145, 187. 188 p..
195, 196 bis., 197, 2UO,
202, 203 bis.
Dowyard La., 209.
Diusdale, 53.
Dirtcar, 43.
Dishforth, 216, 217.
Diss, 47.
Doddington, 6.
Dodworth, 146.
Doe, R., 136, 137.
Don, R.. 45 bis.
Doncaster, 26, 62. 75,
82, 148, 194, 215 bis.
Dorking, 165.
Douk Cave, 137.
Dowkers, 99.
Downton, 6.
Dranwell, 31.
Drax, 144.
Drighlingtont29, 142, 145
Droughton, 149.
Drypool Church, 195.
Dunbottle, 209.
Duncombo Pk., 6.
Dunford Bridge, 45.
Dun Keswyke, 147.
Dunster Court, 164.
Duntford, 147.
Durham, 53.
Dusthorpe, 124.
Ealand, 49, 50, 74, 200.
Earlsheaton, 26, 75, 133.
Easegill Force, 135 bis. I
Eastbridleigh, 192, 193,
194.
Eastcliff Bank. 210.
East Coltingwith. 194.
Easthorpe, 189, 207, 210
bis.
East Horsley. 5.
East Smiihfield, 192.
East Oxe Pasture. 92.
INDEX LOCORUM.
251
Eaton, 72.
Ecclesall, 142, 194.
Ecdesfield, 26, 73, 148.
EccleshiU, 49, 145, 239,
240 p.
Edgoott, 162.
Edghill, 48.
Edinburgh, 7.
Edlington, 148.
Edworth, 146.
ERburgh, 146.
Eland, 142, 144.
Elletrye Flat, 92.
Elmsall, 215.
Elreton, 85.
Emley, 145.
Emsey, 142, 149, 193.
Erinden, 142.
Erkcndale, 148.
Esholt, 77, 85, 239.
Eskdale-aide, 228 bis.,
229, 230.
Esthtou, 149.
Estkeswyke, 143.
Esyngton, 149.
EweU, 166 p.
Exeleye, 97.
Exeter, 39, 132.
Eyton, 194.
Fairfield, 68.
Fairweather Green, 152.
Farebnrne, 144.
Farnham, 5. •
Farnley, 41, 101, 142
bis., 145.
Farseley, 145.
Far Bide Moor, 207, 210.
Fawlett, Fawlethwaite,
237 p.. 238.
Felbeck MiU, 194.
Fenton, 48, 144.
Femhill, 149.
Fernley, 145, 147.
Fernnam, 148.
Ferrybridge, 6.
Fetberston, 146.
Fewston, 25, 26, 235.
Fieldbead, 125, 209.
Fieldhoose, 239.
Filey, 41.
Findern, 125.
Firbank, 31.
Firbeck, 75.
Fixby, 69, 151.
Flanders, 207.
Flanahaw, 39.
PUpley, 147.
Rub House, 210.
Flaxbye, 149.
Flaxton, 223.
Flekesby, 145.
Flintshire, 6.
Flockton, 142, 145.
Fokerbye, 146.
Fold Head, 210.
Folly foot, 25, 147, 194,
235.
Forbrigge Flat, 92.
Fors Abbey, 173.
Forsdale, 174.
Fountains, 85, 97, 104.
Foxroyd, 209.
Frewell, 92.
Frickley, 148.
Fryston, 144, 146.
Fulneck, 65, 66, 67, 68,
119, 120, 123.
Fylingdales Cb., 194, 195
Fysbelake, 148.
Gallows Moss, 45.
Gaping GUI Hole, 137.
Garfartbe, 144.
Gargrave, 149.
Gatefurth, 144.
Gatebill, 144.
Gatekirk Cave, 137.
Gawthorpe Hall, 5.
Gaynes Hall, 5.
Ghent, 186.
Gibhole, 209.
Gilling, 29.
Gill Lane, 209.
Gingle Pot, 135.
Gingling Cave, 137.
Gisburne Park, 6.
Glasgow, 70.
Gloucester, 41.
Glysburne, 149.
God's bridge, 135.
GoldhaU, 146.
Goldsbnrgbe, 147.
Gomersal, 66, 68, 142,
145.
Gowthorp, 147, 215 bis.
Grace Hall, 67.
Grainge, 174, 189.
Grantley, 147.
Grassington, 173.
Great Tonrne, 220.
Greenhead, 190.
Greenside, 209.
Greetham, 234.
Greetland, 49, 159 bis.
Gregory Spring, 210.
Grenehamton, 147.
Gresbrooke, 149.
Greta, B., 135 bis.
Grisedale, 32.
Grindleton Chapel, 194.
Grimston, 144.
Gnnthwaite, 146. 216 bis.
Gygleswyke, 149.
Gyreington, 149.
Gysburne, 149.
Gyseley, 143.
Haddockstones, 74.
Haddyl, 144.
Hadesley, 144 bis.
Hagg, 196, 210 bis.
Haigh Pk.. 42.
Halgton, 89.
Halifax, 10, 12 bis., 13,
24 bis., 27, 29, 43, 46,
48, 49, 50, 68, 70, 73,
74, 127, 143, 145, 152,
158, 161, 198, 206, 216
bis., 235, 236, 240.
Hallcroft, 87.
Halsome-moore, 47.
Halton, 148, 149 bis.
Hamelton, 144.
HameBworth, 148.
Hampole, 85.
Hampthwaste Ch., 195
bis.
Hampton, 107, 149.
Handsworth, 220.
Hanercrofte, 147.
Hanging Banks. 162.
Harden, 152.
Hardenbeck, 180.
Hardrow Soar, 174.
Hardwicke, 162 bis.
Harewood, 43, 144.
Harrigate, 28.
Hartcliff, 45.
Harthill, 148.
Hartsbead, 27, 82, 83 bis.
89, 93, 100 bis., 142,
145, 152, 202.
Haslewood, 144.
Hatefeld, 148.
Hathweyte, 87.
Hathermire, 133.
Haw Bank, 210.
Hawdonbye, 146.
Hawes, 135, 175.
Hawkeswyke, 149.
Hawksworth, 143.
Hawnlytbe, 149.
Haworth, 10, 12, 13, 15,
142, 144, 194.
Hayke, 99.
Hazlehead, 45.
252
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Healey, 236.
Heath, 224.
Heaton, 29, 142.
Hebden, 149.
Hecke, 146.
Heckmondwike, 29, 49,
68. 93, 94, 99, 125 p,
126, 127, 143, 145, 191
Hcdensley, 83, 87.
Hedingley. 144.
Hedon, 5, 153, 154, 234.
Heghome, 89.
Heirthlington, 149.
Hellifield, 49, 149.
Helliwell, 158.
Hemingborough, 194.
Hemsworth, 43.
Hensall, 146.
Heptonstail, 76, 143.
Hepworth Wood, 210.
Hereden, 87.
Hermutb, 200.
Hessye, 144.
Heton, 88, 94, 148, 149.
Hewick, 144, 147, 216
bis, 217.
He j ton, 145 bis.
Higham Ferrers, 6.
High Lane, 209.
High Stubbinge, 92.
Hiph Sunderland, 68, 70,
71.
Hillome, 144.
Hipperholme, 50, 75, 143
145, 239 bis.
Hivelton, 192.
Holbeck, 50, 74.
Holland, 146, 148.
Hollin Hall, 210.
Holmefirth, 143, 145.
Holy Well, 158, 164.
Hoola, 237.
Hopton, 189 bis, 191 bis,
195 bis, 205 bis, 207,
210 p, 211 p, 213 bis.
Hopwood, 72.
Horbury, 24, 39, 42, 44,
142, 145.
Hornsea, 155 p.
Horsford, 143.
Horsham, 6.
Horton, 24, 29, 125, 143,
145, 149, 150.
Hoton. 18, 149.
Honndhill, 70.
Howke, 146.
Howley. 76, 81, 143, 145.
Hoyland, 236.
Hoylandswaine, 237 p,
238.
Hoy ton Pannell, 148.
Huddle Cross, 158.
Huddersfield, 41, 49, 76,
93, 97, 99, 100, 143,
145, 152 bis, 197 Mb.
Hudleston, 144.
Hnkrode, 92.
Hall, 44, 129, 163, 181
bis.
Hull Pot, 138.
Hulton, 17 bis.
Hnnburton, 148.
Handyshelfe, 146.
Hnnger Hill, 210.
Hunnesworth, 142, 145.
Hnnshelf, 216 bis.
Hansinghome, 147.
Hunslet. 73, 121, 143,
145, 224, 226.
Huntington, 18.
Hunt Pot, 138.
Huret, 144.
Hurtle Pot, 135.
Hutton Conyers, 216 p,
217.
Hygheholland, 146.
Hyghemelton. 149.
Hykylton, 148.
Hvmsworth, 146.
Hyndeley, 147.
Idel, 15, 29, 127, 148,
145, 239 p, 240 p.
Ilkley, 144.
Illingworth, 46.
Ingleborough, 135, 187
bis.
Ingleton, 134, 185, 137
bis, 150.
Ingmanthorpe, 193 bis.
Ingoldemeales, 234.
Ingraththorpe, 147.
Inner Temple, 212.
Jenkin Beck, 135.
Jervaulx, 85, 178.
Jordan Roid, 210.
Kelder, R., 83.
Keldon, 85.
Kellyngton, 146.
Kensing Ch.. 63.
Kendal, 77, 125.
Kepaxe, 148.
Kettering. 40.
Kettlewell, 149, 195.
Kezburgh, 89, 93, 146.
Keyingham, 158, 155.
Kighley, 10, 13, 15, 27,
149, 234.
Killington. 32 bis.
Kilnsey, 25, 154 p.
Kimlane, 209.
Kingley Ch., 194.
King's Cross, 152.
Kingsdale Beck, 137.
Kings Manor House, 1S8
Kingston -upon -Hull, 5,
47, 163 p, 193, 227 bis.
Kippax, 39, 73.
Kipping, 128,175 p, 176 p,
177 p, 178 p, 179 p, 180
p, 181 p, 182 p, 183 p,
184 p, 185 p, 186 p.
Kirby Lonsdale, 32.
Kirby Misperton, 29.
Kirby Moorside, 16.
Kirby Overblow. 25.
Kirk Burton, 76, 142.
Kirkby, 144, 147, 204.
Kirkheaton, 97, 124, 142,
199, 202, 211.
Kirkleatham, 20.
Kirklees, 82, 83, 84, 85
bis, 86, 87, 90, 91, 93,
97, 98 p, 100, 151, 196,
198, 201, 203 bis, 204
bis, 205, 206.
Kirkstall, 68, 85.
Kirkthorpe, 39, 40.
Knapton, 144.
Knaresborough, 5, 27, 74
78, 147, 148, 283 p.
Knightsbridge, 163.
Knottyngley, 146.
Knowl, 205, 210 p.
Krymsfurth, 148.
Kuthales, 83.
Kuthelagam, 83.
Kyldwyke, 149.
Kyllinghall, 147.
Kymberworth, 148.
Kyndall, 147.
Kyrbye, 147.
Kyrbye Cattail, 148.
Kyrkbie, 147, 149.
Kyrkefaenton, 146.
Kyrkhamton, 147.
Kyrk Sandall, 148.
Kytton, 149.
Lamlyffe, 149.
Lambs Hill, 67.
Langefeld, 143, 145.
Langhton, 149.
Langsett, 146, 214.
Langtoft, 223.
INDEX LOCORUM.
258
Langthwate, 148.
Langwath, 217 bis.
Lardonary, 215.
Laughton, 75, 149.
Laweton, 77.
Leapool, 47.
Ledgard Bridge, 187 bis,
188, 169, 190.
Ledgard Mill, 190, 210.
L*dsham, 144.
Ledstone, 143, 199.
Leeds, 18, 20, 23, 24 p,
27 bis. 28, 29, 37, 40 p,
42 p, 44, 48, 49 bis,
53, 54, 74, 75, 76, 121,
122 p, 144, 177 bis, 178
bis, 197 Ms, 198, 199
bis, 200, 210, 222, 238
bis.
Leegreen, 207, 209, 211.
Lepton, 143, 145.
Lester, 77.
Letwell, 217 bis.
Leven, 29, 156, 158.
Levington, 218 bis.
Lewknor, 63.
Leyden, 178.
Leythley. 147.
Ltghtcliffe, 66, 226.
Laey, 191, 210 p.
Lincoln, 234.
Linton, 27.
Lisbon, 199.
Lisle, 186.
Little Don, R., 45.
Little Hag, 210.
Little Horton, 68.
Little London, 196, 209.
Littlemoor, 210.
Liverpool, 199, 240.
Liversedge, 83, 89 bis,
93, 94, 98, 99, 143,
145, 188.
Lofthouse, 39, 76, 144.
London, 7, 12, 45, 50, 53,
66, 72, 132, 165, 166,
182, 183, 185, 215.
Lonkester, 11.
Longley, 97, 100 bis.
Long Mareton, 17, 18.
Long Preston, 49.
Long Sntton, 234.
Longwood Chapel, 195.
Londenden, 10.
Loversall, 148.
Low Harrogate Ch., 195.
Low Mills, 191, 210.
Low Road, 210.
Lowther Hall, 200.
Lnddenden, 194 p, 235.
Lune R., 31, 135.
Lyndley, 147.
Lyon Roode, 93.
Lynton, 147, 149.
Magna Cattail, 147.
Magna Usbrirne, 148.
Mallame, 149.
Maltby, 75, 149.
Malton, 6, 222.
Manchester, 45, 71, 125
bis, 152, 159, 199, 240.
Mankynholes, 151.
Man, Ifle of, 56.
Manningham, 24, 143,
145, 213.
Manor Ho., 52, 53 bis,
54 bis, 119.
Mansfield, 177, 184 bis.
Marebrigge Flat, 92.
Mark Lane, 164.
Marledoore, 92.
Marre, 149.
Marscoate, 96.
Marsden, 49.
Marsheden, 143.
Marsheland, 146.
Mareton, 16, 17, 18.
Marton, 87.
Matchcroft, 209 bis.
Manltby Ch., 194.
Meagill, 28.
Meaux or Melsa, 85.
Medhope, 149.
Medleton, 147.
Medley, 143, 145.
Meklefeld, 144.
Melmerby, 216.
Melthaxn, 73, 143, 145.
Menston, 143.
Merkynton, 147.
Merton, 144.
Merton Coll., 63.
Methley, 5, 219.
Mexbrongh, 148, 212, 218
bis, 221.
Middleton, 32, 74, 123,
143.
Migeley, 143.
Mile-end, 125.
Mill-bridge, 126.
Mill-house, 208.
Milner Field, 226.
Milnfold, 189.
Mincing Lane, 164.
Minorca, 199.
Mirfield, 82 bis, 83 p, 84,
86, 90, 91, 93, 94, 97,
100, 101 bis, 143 144,
187 p, 188, 189 bis,
191 bis, 192, 195, 196
p, 197 p, 198 p, 199 p,
200 p, 201 p, 203 f>,
204 p, 205 bis, 206,
207 p, 208 p, 209, 211
bis.
Mixeuden, 177, 180.
Mock Beggar, 210.
Molesme, 84.
Monkton, 144. 147.
Montier-la-Celle, 84.
Moor House, 40.
Moorside, 209.
Moor Town, 199.
Moravia, 66.
Morkar, 74.
Morlev, 75, 76 bis, 79,
124, 142, 143, 145,
224 bis.
Morton, 144, 223.
Moss Farm, 96.
Mostyn, 72.
Mount Sorril, 53.
Mydleton, 145.
Myghley, 145.
Mynskyppe, 148.
Mytton, 150,
Nabstocks Bank, 210.
Naustrope, 74.
Nawton, 223.
Nesfeld, 147.
Netherneld, 45.
Nether Hall, 79.
Nether Thong, 43.
Netherton, 143.
Nettlested, 78.
Newall, 147.
Newbiggin, 218 bis.
Newbye, 147.
Newcastle, 7, 200, 240.
New Close, 92.
New Hall, 191, 210, 211.
New Miller Dam, 76.
Newsoin, 143, 149.
Newthorpe, 144.
Newton, 149, 150.
Newton Kyme, 144.
Newton Wallys, 144.
New Wood, 93.
Nickhouse, 209 bis.
Nidderdale, 23.
Norland, 50.
Normanton, 143, 145.
Northallerton, 5, 6, 107.
Northampton, 40.
Northbar, 209.
-254
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
North Birley, 143.
Northcroft, 87.
North Crossland, 145.
Northdighton, 147.
North Elmsall, 146.
North Frodingham, 155.
Northgate, 40.
North Gynedale, 218 p.
Northorpe, 187, 207,
209 p.
Northowram, 19, 47, 50,
127, 143, 145, 177,
184 bis, 185.
Norton, 146, 193 big.
Norwich, 132.
Nostell, 97, 146.
North Stanley, 147.
Nottingham, 48.
Notton, 146.
Novou, 15.
Nun Appleton, 22, 85.
Nunbanke, 93.
Nunbrook, 82, 83, 188,
206, 210.
Nunkeeling, 157, 158.
Nnnmonkton, 20, 73, 147.
Nunwood, 97.
Nun Wyk, 147.
Nydd, 147.
Oakham, 63.
Ockbrook, 68.
Okenshaw, 158.
Oketon. 219 bis.
Oliver Car, 210.
Onchan, 56, 60.
Osgodcrosse, 146.
Osmonderbye, 147.
Ossett, 43, 75, 143, 145.
Oswestry, 125.
Otley/39, 143, 240.
Otterburne, 149.
Ouse-bridge Hall, 21.
Ousterfeld, 148,
OuBtoh Ch., 198.
Ovenden, 143, 145, 174.
Overard, 186.
Oxford, 17.
Ox Lane, 166.
Oxspringe, 146, 219 bis.
Oxthorpe, 148.
Padeham, 11.
Paper, or Papist Hall,
86 bis.
Parkgate, 26.
Pate Lane, 209.
Pathorn, 149.
Pecca Falls, 135.
Pendle Hill, 30.
Penistone, 45, 46 p, 146,
162, 164, 208, 214.
Penny Hedge, 230.
Penrith, 205.
Peterboro\ 6.
Petersfield, 166.
Petrosslanus, 83.
Pickworth, 178.
Pimbledow, 72.
Plompton, 147.
Pockley, 223.
Pollington, 74, 144, 146,
219 bis.
Pomfret, 146.
Pontefract, 6 bis, 12, 24
bis, 25 bis, 26, 27, 46,
47, 48, 49, 54, 74, 75,
76 bis, 90, 98, 133,
146, 189 bis, 208, 218,
215, 227, 233 p, 239 bis.
Poole, 119, 148.
Popleton, 144 bis.
Postern Gate, 163.
Potternewton, 121, 143.
Prague, 198.
Preston, 12, 143, 146,
149.
Pudsey, 29, 143, 145,
180, 285.
Pygburne, 148.
Quarmbv, 27, 143, 145.
Quarry Hole, 195.
Queenborongh, 6.
Quick, 143.
Rainton, 216 bis.
Ranfeld, 148.
Rastriok, 143, 145, 152.
Rathmel, 124 bis.
Ratton Row, 210.
Ravenspurn Gross, 153,
154.
Ravensthorpe Lane, 209.
Ravenwray, 135.
Rawoliffe, 148.
Rawden, 144, 240 p.
Rawmarshe, 148.
Rawthy, R., 29.
Redbonrn, 5.
Redear Chapel, 195.
Rednesse, 146 bis.
Reinsley, 147.
Remyngton, 149.
Reyll, 146.
Reylston, 149.
Ribston, 197.
Richmond - on - Thames,
235.
Richmond, Yorks, 5.
Rigton, 143.
Ripley, 23, 147.
Ripon, 5, 29, 147 his,
216, 217, 219 bis.
Ripponden, 196.
Rise, 158.
Rishforth, 143.
Risingham Station, 61.
Rivaulx, 85.
Road End, 45.
Roall. 146.
Robert Town, 2^9.
Roche, 85, 97.
Rochester. 199.
Roclyffe, 146.
Roebuck, 194.
Roehead, 210.
Roodes, 76.
Rosington, 148.
Rothemell, 149.
Rotherham, 47, 75, 127,
148, 162.
Rothwell Haigh, 40, 41,
42,76,81,143,145,218.
Roughbanks, 216.
Row Houses, 210.
Rowley, 29.
Rowting Cave, 187.
Royston, 140.
Rufford, 202.
Runswick, 193 p.
Rushford Farm, 94.
Rygton, 147.
Rykston, 147 Ms.
Ryllyingley, 148.
Ryshworth, 146.
Ryther, 144.
Saddleworth, 94 bis, 99.
St. Ann's Chapel, 194 bis.
St. Ives 192.
St. John's Chapel, 194.
St. Mary's Abbey, 85.
St. Miohrcl de Tounerre,
84.
St. Olave's, Ch., 193.
St. Philip's Cross, 153.
St. Philip's Well, 153.
Sallay, 85, 147.
Saltaire, 224 p, 225,226
p, 289.
Saltersbrook, 45.
Salterton, 195.
Salton, 223.
Saltwood, 17.
Sandall, 43, 143, 145,
148.
INDEX LOCORUM.
255
f
Sandford Park, 17
Sandsend, 153.
Saxton, 144.
Scaleber Force, 133.
Scarboro', 5, 6, 53, 138,
227, 229.
Scarcroft, 144.
Scavrgbye, 149.
Scladburne, 149.
Scoles, 15, 93, 99 bis.
Scothorpe, 149.
Scrathayks. 99.
Screfyn, 148.
Scyrcotte, 144.
Secroft, 143.
Sedbergh, 29, 30, 31, 32.
Sedgbige, 150.
Selby,24bis,44,47,144.
Selesden, 149.
Settle, 133, 149.
Settrragton, 29.
Shadwell, 144.
Shafton, U6.
Sharbore, 147.
Shariesto*, 143, 145.
Sheep To/, 210.
Sheffield, 8, 28, 29, 148,
163, lf5, 220 p.
8helfe,fc,87,93,98,99,
144.
Shelley, 143, 145.
Shepefeycarre, 99.
ShepK, U3, 145, 187,
tfiris.
Bhfeurne, 144.
mien Hall, 19 bis.
ShUnk La, 86, 209 p.
%ley, 49, 105, 143,
44, 225, 239.
Slrclif , 90.
litlington,90,143,145.
faewsbury, 125.
huckden, 178 p, 179 bis,
181 p, 182, 184.
Sicklinghall, 25, 193.
Silkstone, 236, 237.
Sindall, 143.
Sitiningthwait, 85.
Skeffling, 156.
Skellbrooke, 146.
Skellowe, 146.
tikelton, 147, 218.
Skimlthorpe, 146.
Skipton, 24, 25 p, 28 bis,
48, 49, 52, 149.
Skircote, 50, 143.
Skybdcn, 149.
Slaok, 152, 159 bis.
Slaithwaite, 94, 143, 145
Slate quarries, 135.
Sleeford, 178.
Smallhaigh, 208.
Smeaton parva, 146.
Snaith, 25. 146, 219.
Snake Hill, 188, 210.
Snaynton, 228.
Sneaton Castle, 22.
Snydall, 145.
Softley, 221 bis.
South Dighton, 147.
South Elmesall, 146.
Southfield, 127, 128.
Southgate, 155.
South Kirkby, 73, 146.
South Mylefurth, 144.
Southowram, 27, 50, 143,
145.
South Stanley, 148.
Sonthwark, 48, 239.
Sowerby. 50, 143, 145,
195, 199, 239.
Soytyll, 145.
Spennymoor, 118.
Spofforth, 29, 147.
Sprodburgh, 148.
Stafford, 192.
Stainborongh, 236 bis,
237 p, 238 bis.
Stainclif, 149.
Staincrosse, 146.
Stainland, 143, 145, 150,
151.
Stainley, 6, 145.
Staintou, 125, 149.
Stakford, 92.
Stanbury, 9,10p, 11, 13,
14 bis, 15 p.
Stanhope, 29.
Stanley, 41, 49. 143, 148
Stansfeld, 52, 75, 143.
Stapylton, 146.
Statton, 144.
Staynburne, 147.
Staynfeld, 145.
Staynfirth, 148, 149.
Staynsall, 149.
Steton, 149.
8teynburghe, 146.
Stockbridge, 238.
Stokesley, 138.
Stonegate, 121.
Stonegrave, 223.
Stonehouses, 99.
Stoynfeld, 149.
Strafford, 75 bis, 148, 221
Strawberry Hill, 54.
Stubbes hampoll, 148.
Stubbes Walden, 146.
Stubbynge, 92.
Studley, 5, 147.
Stump Gross, 152.
Styrton, 149.
Sutcliffe, 239.
Suttell, 143.
Sutton, 144, 148, 149,
163. 209.
Sutton place, 207.
Swillabottom, 135.
Swillington Ho., 43, 143,
199.
Swindon, 149, 207 p.
Swine, 85, 155 bis.
8wine pasture, 92.
Swinfleet, 75.
S win ton, 149, 215 bis,
221 bis.
Sylkstone, 146.
Synclynghall, 147.
Tadcaster, 47, 144, 194,
199.
Tankersley, 146, 236.
Temple, 211.
Thanet, 162.
Thirsk, 6 bis, 192, 215,
234.
Thome, 73. 148.
Thornell, 143.
Thorner, 197.
Thornhill, 29, 145, 191,
200, 202.
Thornnour, 143.
Thornton, 6, 29, 128,
143, 145, 147, 149, 160
176, 182, 185, 194.
Thornton Force, 134, 137
Thornwaite Chapel, 235.
Thorp Arch, 72.
Thorpawdleybye, 146.
Thorpe, 28, 74, 79, 147.
Thorpsalvyn, 148.
Thorp Stapleton, 144.
Thorpsup'monte, 143.
Thorpwillingbye, 144.
Threaproyd, 210.
Thrownstone, 148.
Thryberg, 138.
Thurguland, .146, 236,
237 p, 238 p.
Thurlstone, 45, 147.
ThurscroBse, 147.
Thurstonland, 143, 145.
Tickell, 75 bis, 148, 149,
162, 213 bis, 233, 234 p.
Tinmouth Castle, 53.
Tinsley, 221 bis.
Tithe Laithe, 210.
256
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Tockboles, 125.
Toddwyke, 148.
Tong, 28, 51, 143, 145.
Topgrave, 147.
Tore R, 173.
Towcrosse, 150.
Towngate, 207, 209 bis.
Towton, 144.
Tresfeld, 149.
Treton, 148, 220.
Trougill gorge, 137.
Turnbridge 24 bis, 27.
Tutbury, 213.
Twickenham, 6.
Twiselton Soar, 135.
Tymkill, 147 bis.
Tynslowe, 149, 222 bis.
Uglebarmby, 228.
Ulf's Lands, 222.
Ulley, 148.
Undercliffe, 127.
Unshriven Bridge, 216.
Upperhall, 209.
Upper Wortley, 68.
Upton, 146.
Uakett, 146.
UskUl, 144.
Uskorne, 147.
Victoria Cave, 133.
Waddington, 150, 234.
Wadsley, 26, 223 p.
Wadsworth, 143, 145,
149, 161, 162, 163 p,
164 p, 165.
Wagestan, 83.
Wakefield, 1, 11, 12 bis,
13 bis, 24 p, 26 bis, 27,
37, 39 p, 40 p. 41 p, 42
p, 43 p, 44 p, 49 p, 50,
61, 52, 70, 71, 72, 74
p, 75 bis, 80 p, 98, 143,
145, 162 bis, 163, 196,
197 bis, 198, 199, 200,
201 bis, 202, 206, 210,
223 bis, 224, 228 bis,
233 p, 234, 239, 240.
Waicot, 5.
Walkingtdn, 194.
Walles, 148.
Walton, 74, 83, 143, 145,
152 bis.
Warley, 50, 148, 145.
Warmefeld, 143, 145.
Warmsworth, 148 bis.
Warren House. 210.
Warrington, 125, 126.
Washburn Place, 282 bis.
Water Hall, 45, 163, 164
bis, 210.
Waterloo, 235.
Water Royd Lane, 209.
Wath, 148 bis, 221.
Wekeleye, 93.
Wellhouse, 66, 68, 200,
207, 209
Wenning, R., 137.
Wensley, 29.
Wensleydale, 30, 173,
175.
Wentworth, 26, 148.
Wentworth House, 43.
Westbretton, 89, 146.
Westchestre, 78.
West Ella, 163.
Westgate, 42, 96.
Westhalton, 49.
Westhaye, 89, 93, 97, 98,
99.
Westhonse, 137.
West Mills, 210.
West Oxe Pasture, 92.
Weston, 147.
West Strodes, 99.
Westwike, 147.
Wetecroft, 87.
Wethercote, 135.
Wetherby, 27, 28, 47,
147.
Whalley, 78, 152.
Wharfe, R., 1.
Wheat-hey, 148.
Wheatley, 22, 176.
Wheldall, 146.
Whernside, 137.
Whetlye, 146.
Whiston, 25 bis, 148, 220
Whitby, 153, 158, 228 p,
229 bis, 230 bis.
Whitecross, 156, 157,
158.
Whitehaven, 125.
Whitgyfte, 146.
Whitley, 94, 145, 191,
206, 207 bis, 210.
Whittington, 73.
Whitwood, 143, 145.
Whorlton, 230.
Whyxley. 147.
Wibsey Chapel, 194 bis,
285.
WighiU, 191.
Wigles worth, 49.
Wigton, 144, 200.
Wigtwisle, 220.
Wike, 28, 49, 66, 68, 143
bis, 144, 145.
Willoughby, 47.
Wimbleton, 223.
Windy Bank, 210.
Winwick, 71.
Wifitow, 144.
Wodersley, 143.
Wodesom, 143.
Wolley. 89, 90, 146.
Wombewell, 148.
Woodchurch, 78, 79, 80.
Woodhouse, 160.
Woodkirk, 81. 195.
Woodlane, 209.
Woodlesford, 41, 76.
Wooley Park, 41.
Worcester, 120.
Wornesloy, 146.
Wortley. 6, 53] 119, 143,
146, 191. \
Wospurne, 147 A
Wrangbrooke, 1U6.
WroseBank, 2]
Wyokham, 85.
Wyghton, 147.
Wygylsworth, 149)i
Wykerley, 145, 147, 148.
Wyntercett, 147.
Wytwell Hall, 219. I
Yarme, 193.
Yeadon, 143, 240 p.
Yew Tree, 135, 210.
Yordas Cave, 137.
York, 5, 7, 11, 18 bis, J
22, 24 bis, 26 bis, 23
29, 32. 33, 34, 35, 36\
37, 39 p, 41, 42, 43,
46, 52, 53, 121, 122,
132, 181 bis, 182, 184,
186 p, 192. 193 p, 194
p, 197, 198, 203, 212,
218, 220, 227 p, 228,
230, 231 bis, 232 p,
234, 235.
T. Harriion, Printer, Bookbinder, Ac., Queen Street, Bingiey.
/IS G*+sUo (O-Jt-^j CZZ^GL
^Ut^^^f^4t/t
Sulk-fait Inurnal:
With Notes Comical and Dialectic.
THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS.
Edited by J. HORSFALL TURNER,
Idel, Bradford.
Vol. I.
$)rinteb for ilj* ©Mtor
By T. Harrison, Queen Street, Bingley.
1888.
T'-V.:.-. ' .
63796
\i
Mother Shipton 1, 81, 82.
Witches — Hares, Broom-
sticks 2, 25, 98, 94, 209.
Spiders - - - 2, 22.
Charms — Sore Mouth - 21.
Potato ... 48.
Kincough - - - 282.
Selling Warts - - 2, 21.
Robin Hood Gravestone 2.
Haunted Houses, 2, 22, 88, 45,
70, 286.
Holy Wells 8,120,191,194,
196, 200.
Children's Games 8, 22, 45,
46, 214.
Prophet Wroe 5, 6, 7, 17, 210.
Anecdotes 8, 67, 69, 78, 91,
99, 167, 215, 225.
Popular errors :
Cromwells - - 9.
Romans - - - 73.
Abbotside - - - 9, 25.
Hardrow Scar (Poem) - 11.
Poor Man's Bane 12, 78.
Calder-vale Dialect, 12, 22, 78,
87, 109, 122.
Burials in Woollen - 17.
" Duck " threat - - 21.
Frxis jingle - - - 21.
Arkengarthdale - 22, 66.
Fair Imogene - 22, 45.
Ballads, 22, 23, 25, 42, 45, 46,
99, 102, 117, 119, 146, 151,
165, 170, 180, 183, 184, 186,
187, 188, 204, 211, 229.
Christmas Customs, 25, 29, 210.
York Waits - - 27.
Wassailing - 28, 178.
Devil's Knell - - 29.
Boiling Ghost - - 88.
Superstitions 48, 45, 88, 96,
98, 229.
G. Daniel's Poem - 45.
York Minster Screen (North
Riding Dialect - - 49.
Centenarians, 55, 57, 66, 188,
186, 168, 192, 194, 280.
Henry Jenkins - 57, 169.
Strike luck 66.
Yorkshire Charac^a, 67, 69,
120, 122, 189, 167, 171, 174,
207, 208, 222, 228, 225, 240.
Paper Hall Ghost - 70.
Lope Hoil - 78.
Births, &c. - - - 78.
Darney's Hymn - 74.
Wife Sales - - 87, 189.
Aerial Phenomena 88, 92.
Batley Legend - - 89.
Dewsbury Legend - 89.
Tenure Custom - - 91.
Golden Ball Legend - 94.
Hull Corporation Arms 104.
Cruel Unkle Legend - 115.
Palm Sunday - - 120.
Tibby Tinkler - 121, 166.
Yorkshire Bite - 121, 166.
Local Preachers - 122, 189.
Peace Egg, F.axterFjm, 127,140.
Yorkshire Speyks, 181,217,225.
Clothier's Vain Wife - 186.
Soothill Legend - - 140.
Yorkshire PI ace -Name
Rhymes - 141, 143, 144.
Robin Hood - 146, 147.
Whitby FisherLad Ballad, 151.
Nursery Rhymes - - 152.
Sprotbro' Hospitality - 166.
Ribston Song - - 170.
Hal of Kirklees - - 174.
Contents — continued.
Herbert Knowles -
180
PAGE.
,182.
Yorkshire Wit & Humour
PAGE
225
All Fool's Day -
-
185.
Delivering a Sod -
281
Parkin
-
186.
Runswick Charm -
282.
Whig and Tory -
189
,190.
Whitby Legend -
234.
Gabriel Hounds -
-
201.
York Castle Custom
284
Hal of Bradford -
-
207.
Bradford Waits -
284
Pyrah the Prophet
-
208.
Horn -blowing
286.
Semerwater Legend
46
,211.
Simeon Rayner -
289
Burial Customs -
-
212.
Index Nominum -
241.
" Stand a York drop'
'
214.
Index Locorum -
248.
Mischief Night
215.
Simeon Rayner
Boiling Hall
Hull Arms
PAGE.
Frontispiece.
- 89..
- 105.
PAGE.
Witches - - 2,88,209.
Prophet Wroe's Birthplace, 17.
Woollen Burial Certificate,
18, 19.
Boiling Hall - - 39.
44 Pity Poor Bradford" - 41.
A Yorkshire Post - - 67.
Paper Hall, Bradford - 71.
Senior the Hermit - 102.
Hull Seals (6) - - 105.
Cruel Unkle
John Phillips, gent.
Bradford Legend -
44 Prophet Wroe "
Typical Yorkshiremen, 22
Runswick
Whitby Abbey -
Bradford Waits -
Tasker the Grave-digger
Bentley the Bellman -
PAGE"
117.
192.
196.
210.
2,228.
232.
288.
235.
240.
240.
With Notes Comical and Dialectic.
Fabricated " Ancient Prediction. (Entitled by popular tra-
dition— 'Mother Shipton's Prophecy,' published in 1448,
republished in 1641.)
" Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the earth thoughts shall fly
In ttie twinkling of an eye.
The world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at the root of a tree.
Through hills men shall ride,
And no horse be at his side.
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, in green.
Iron in the water shall float,
As easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In a land that's not now known.
Fire and water shall wonders do,
England shall at last admit a foe.
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.,,
This alleged "prediction" has been published in several
newspapers, &c, during the past few years, and having very
strong doubts regarding its authenticity I forwarded a cutting
of it to Notes and Queries, with the enquiry " Where was it first
published, and is it considered genuine ? " It appeared in (4th
8., vol. X., p. 450, Dec. 7, 72,) and replies appeared at page
502; and vol. XI., pp. 60 and 206, from the Rev. W. W. Skeat,
Mr. J. C. Cox, Dr. Rimbault, and Mr. Wm. Andrews. The
answers were to the effect that there were very great doubts
regarding its authenticity, and that the date 1448 could not be
correct, as the accounts of " The Life and Prophecies of Mother
Shipton," generally say that she died in 1661, aged 78, so that
her birth would be about 1488. However, the matter was com-
pletely set at rest by the following note by the editor in " Notices
to Correspondents," at page 855, 4th S., vol. XI., Notes and
Queiies: —
Y.F. B
2
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Mother Shipton's Prophecies. — Mr. Charles Hindley, of
Brighton, in a letter to us, has made a clean breast of haying
fabricated the Prophecy quoted at page 450 of our last volume,
with some ten others included in his reprint of a chap-book
version, published in 1862." Simeon Bayneb.
Witches and Broomsticks. — I have an old Mother Shipton
chap-book bearing on the title page a woodcut as follows : —
Can any reader favour me with the origin of the broomstick
notion ?
Spiders. — The other day I knocked a spider from my face,
and a little girl, standing by, remarked, " You are going to have
a fortune."
Selling Warts. — My little boy's hands were covered with
warts a few months ago, and a bottle I got from the doctor
containing some liquid to rub them, seemed to be ineffective in
removing them. A neighbour woman seeing the disfigurements
told the boy to go to her house and sell them. She paid him a
half-penny," wrapped in paper, and told him to place it carefully
away till the warts disappeared. In a month his hands were
clear, and the coin is still wrapped up. Ho has not had one
since September. This is a fact ; whether the doctor's lotion
took effect afterwards I cannot say. Mary Stead.
Robin Hood's Gravestone. — Not only is this old stone sur-
rounded by high, iron railings, but the top has been also
protected by iron bars, because the rustics stole into the grounds
and climbed the rails, to chip a little off the stone as a charm for
toothache. J.H.T.
Haunted House. — Mayroid, the old home of the Cockrofts,
at Hebden Bridge, was formerly reported to be haunted ; and
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. S
no wonder such statements should arise, if all that Oliver Hey-
wood and others tell of their debauchery is true. Persons now
living have heard many unaccountable noises in the roof, but
my chief object in writing is to report that the knockings have
ceased since we bored holes in the under-drawing. There is a
fine coat of arm's over the side door, of the Gockroft family,
with a Cock for crest. W.H.
Holy Wells. — A descriptive list of these interesting relics
will be acceptable. We have accounts of three to hand, viz.:
Alegar Well, near Kirklees, Holywell at Stainland, and Helliwell,
in Lightcliffe. Ed.
Ancient Village Sport. — In the XortJuimptonshire Notes and
Queries for April, 188$, is a Note which we transcribe as it cor-
responds with a favourite game now played in Shipley district,
under the name of A Farmer's Life. My daughter has given
me the following rendering, retaining the bad grammar :
Oats, and beans, and barley corn,
You, nor I, nor any one knows,
You, nor I, nor any one knows,
Where oats, and beans, and barley grows.
First the farmer sows his seed,
And then he stands, and takes his ease,
Stamps his foot, and clasps his hand,
And turns him round to view the land.
Waiting for a partner ; waiting for a partner,
Open the ring, and take one in,
And piok the fairest of the ring.
Now you're married you must obey,
You must attend to all I say,
You must be kind, you must be good,
And help your wife to chop the wood.
We make a ring by joining hands, and a boy goes into it, and
we begin to sing. At the proper time, he picks a girl he likes
the best. He then kisses the girl, and goes out whilst she
remains in and picks a boy. Ed.
"Having been recently invited by the kind Vicar of Eaunds,
to join the annual Christmas Entertainment of the Eaunds
Church Choir, I noticed that a very favourite pastime of the
evening was one which I shall call " Choosing Partners," and
this I will go on to describe, as being in all probability a sport
which has come down by tradition from very remote times, and
possibly has not before been noticed in print. The game is
played thus. The young men and maidens join hands indis-
criminately, and form a ring ; within the ring stand a lad and
bus ; then they all step round the way the sun goes, to a plain
tune and the following words : —
4 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
" Does you, or I, or anie one knowe
Where oates and beanes & barlie growe f
Where oates and beanes and barlie growe ?
The farmer comes and sowes ye seede.
Then he standee and takes hys ease
Stamps hys foote, and slappes hys hand
And turnes hym rounde to viewe ye lande."
During the singing of the two last lines they all disjoin hands,
stop, and stamp their feet, and clap their hands, and turn right
round — all in time and tune ; and then join hands again, and
proceed:—
" Waiting for a partner
Waiting for a partner
Open the ringe and take mee in
Make haste and choose your partner."
The two in the middle here choose each of them a partner of
the opposite sex out of the ring, which they do by pointing to
the one chosen ; then they continue the dance round to the
words below, the two pairs of partners crossing hands, — first
right and then left, — and revolving opposite ways alternately.
The march round is temporarily suspended for choosing part-
ners : —
" Now you're married you must obey
Must bee true to alle you saye
Must bee kinde and verie goode
And helpe your wyfe to choppe ye woode."
The partners then salute — or rather each lad kisses his
chosen lass, with the proper amount of reluctance on her part,
and the first two partners go out ; the game continues as before,
being repeated ad infinitum; until every one in the ring has
chosen, and been chosen ; and consequently every lad has
saluted every lass, which is lovely.
The antiquity of the pastime is evidenced by its not mention-
ing wheat; wheat was in remote times an exceptional crop.
The village people lived on oatmeal, and barley bread, and
were none the less strong and happy for that.
It also, possibly, points to a period when most of the land
lay in grass. Portions of the open fields were cultivated in
turn, and after a few years of merciless cropping were laid down
again to recuperate.
The advent of a young bachelor farmer to a parish would
cause a flutter among the girls ; and in the winter time when
this eligible individual had nothing to do but walk over his
land and slap his hands to keep them warm, then was the time
to choose a partner to grace his lonely hearth and warm his
heart.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 5
One good joke to be noticed is the ignorance calmly professed
by each maiden, and recognised as the correct thing, as to the
whereabouts of the farm in question. " Do yon or I or anyone
know?'* No, of coarse we don't know, who ever thought we
did?
When, at length, the farmer's heart has been entangled, and
the knot securely tied by the good Priest of St. Peter's ; then
the triumphant Baunds damsel, in secure possession of the
ring, quite forgetful of the marriage service, proceeds to say or
" Now you're married you must obey," &c. &c.
" Helping to chop the wood " recalls the time when coal was
not known as fuel.
There are many other local village pastimes still existing
with quaint rhymes attached to them, which ought to be pre-
served from possible extinction by being recorded in " N.N. & Q."
Will your readers say whether they have met with " Choosing
Partners," or other sports of a like kind ?
I am indebted for the correct words of the above to a Baunds
maiden, Miss Bertha Finding, a native of the village, who
kindly wrote them down for me. Bob. S. Baker.
Hargreave. Hon. Local Sec. of the Soc. Antiquaries, London.
The same game is played at the school feast at Maxey ; but
the words, as I have taken them down, vary from those given
above. We have no mention of any crop except barley, which
18 largely grown in the district ; and the refrain, repeated after
the second and sixth lines, is
" Waiting for the harvest."
A lady suggested to me that the two first lines of the conclu-
sion are addressed to the bride of the game ; and the two last,
which in our version run
"You must be kind and very good,"
apply to the happy swain. Ed., N. N. & Q.
Pbopbet Wboe. — The following is a copy of a placard in my
possession which was posted in this neighbourhood fifty years
ago, and will, no doubt, be interesting to your readers ; —
The public are respectfully informed
that
John Wboe,
will be
Publicly Baptised
in the Biver Aire,
near Idle Thorpe,
At half-past one o'clock
on Sunday, the 29th day of the 2nd month, 1824,
8 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
TAKE NOTICE
to facilitate said parties in their search for proof, I do hereby
agree to furnish them with my Public writings for the past 8
years, and furthermore, I will agree to be examined Mentally,
before any number of Clergymen of the Church of England, or
be examined Physically by any number of Doctors, or Morally
by any number of Lawyers.
Given under my Hand this 25th day of April, 1861, in Wakefield,
DANIEL MILTON.
Copy of a letter from Lawyer Barratt, to the parties that I have
hired the field from to Lecture in, and to expose a most Gigan-
tic and Outrageous Swindling Company :
" I do hereby give you and each of you Notice that every
person who shall knowingly permit or suffer any congregation
or assembly for Beligious Worship of Protestants to meet in
any place occupied by him until the same shall have been certi-
fied as required by Law, shall forfeit not exceeding Twenty
Pounds. You are therefore hereby required to take Notice that
if you permit any person or persons or any congregation or
assembly to meet in or on your premises on Sunday next, or at
any other time for the purpose aforesaid, proceedings will be
taken against you to recover the said forfeiture."
Dated this Nineteenth day of April, 1861.
Yours &c,
B. BABBATT,
Attorney at Law, Wakefield.
To Jane Bamsden, Thos. Bamsden, 1
and each of them. )
W. B. Hall, Machine Printer, Free Press Office, Wakefield.
CW.
Anecdotes. — In the early days of Moravianism in Yorkshire,
1742, a German Preacher was sent to Gomersall, bnt, being
overtaken by darkness, managed to slide down one of the top-
shafts, or surface coal pits, on Hartshead Moor, where he was
fortunately discovered next morning by a collier, who hearing
a call, looked down, and heard the marvellous question, " Is
this the way to Gomersall ? " the only words of English the
foreigner had been taught.
A Bradford girl of tender years, hearing the Coffee Tavern
movement highly praised, expressed a strong desire to go into
a Toffee Cavern.
The Bev. Canon Hulbert being shewn Tillotson's Sermons,
three folio volumes, chained to the Communion Table at Lyd-
gate Unitarian Chapel, Holmfirth, where David Clarkson's
Works had formerly kept them company, expressed his earnest
YOBKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 9
desire they should be released from their captivity and elevated
to the Pulpit. Well done!
Mr. Slugg's Woodhouse Grove School records an instance of
juvenile revolt. A boy had seen the porridge ladle in the « swill*
tab. All vowed they would touch no more porridge until they
had taught the governor their sense of indignation. Most of
the boys refused their porridge morning, noon, night ; but next
morning, when they should have joined in the Lord's Prayer,
they were mute, except in responding to one sentence, which
they thundered out with more indignation than devotion —
" Give us this day our daily bread."
Cbomwells — Thomas and Oliver. — It is amazing to find the
amount of confusion that obtains regarding these two Gromwells.
Thomas, to nine-tenths of the people, is a name unknown, and
his acts are added to those of the more recent Oliver. The
latter has the credit, like Robin Hood in a former day, of all
the marvellous feats and wicked pranks of giants. In the
popular mind, it was Oliver that planted his cannon against
Bolton, Kirklees, Kirkstall, and all our old abbey ruins, and
a line or two may be of service to your readers in calling
attention to the anachronism, that they may rectify this wide-
spread notion. Y.
Notes on Township of High Abbotside. — Libraries, News-
papers, Beading Boom, Booksellers, — nil. Education is under
control of 3chool Board. New Schools (two), one at Hardrow,
one at Lunds (Hell Beck Lunds). Curate was formerly school-
master. The Fawcetts were curates and schoolmasters for
three generations. The Bev. John Fawoett, the last curate-
pedagogue, is said to have been the author of many poems, the
M8. of which is, I believe, in the hands of the Bev. Bichard
Fawcett. I was fortunate enough to obtain copies of two of
the poems, said to be the composition of the above reverend
rtleman, which I enclose. The poems have never, so
as I am aware, been published in book form, although I
am given to understand such a thing has been contemplated.
The Church is new, having been opened in 1880. It was built
by the Bt. fionble. the Earl of Wharncliffe, who is owner of by
for the largest portion of the Township ; the villages of Hardrow,
Sedbusk, Shaw, and Cotterdale being almost wholly his
property. There are no remarkable epitaphs in the Church
Yard, but the names most numerous are those of Stuart
(formerly one of the principal land-owners of the distriot);
Metcalfe (whose original home was Bear Park, Aysgarth),
Taylor, Moore, and Johnson ; the latter three do not seem to
be original natives, but of comparative recent importation.
Bell, Ineson, and Mason are also very common names in the
10 YORKSHIBE FOLK-LORE.
District. Dinsdale was, I believe, the original owner of the
Simonstone estate, but as a tombstone in memory of George
Dinsdale, of Simonstone, states — "In the Dale had lived
and died his forefathers for 800 years. And in him passed
away the last who made it his dwelling-place, beloved and
honoured fax as he was known." George Dinsdale's mother
was a Stuart. There are tombstones to the Stuarts from 1768,
one signed, Firmadge, Fecit, Leicester, is a most beautiful
specimen of caligraphy, on a Lias flag, to Guthbert Stuart,
Esq., of Simonstone, who died in 1768.
Customs. — Hen Silver at Weddings, spent, with additions, in
feasting and drinking.
Begging Collops, i.e. begging slices of bacon on the Monday
(i.e. Collop-Monday) before Shrove Tuesday. This custom
is almost extinct.
Barring Out the Schoolmaster on the 5th of November,* is still
encouraged by the elders as it was by their forefathers.
Peace-egging or Mumming at Xmas.
The Church bell is rung at 8 a.m. each Sunday to inform the
people there will be Morning Service, and at 4 p.m. to in-
form them there will be Evening Service.
Words, &c. — Bad with you, injurious or detrimental to you.
Good with you, beneficial or of service to you.
Thummel tea bo, the ball of the big toe.
Formel, to order for any person what he or she might require
from a shop, &c, i.e. to forward.
Garth, a small field, as Mill Garth, the field in which the mill
either stands or stood.
Scar, a waterfall, as " Hardrow Scar."
Fobs, fors, or force, a waterfall, as Colter Force, Aysgarth
Force.
Ghyl, a ravine, as Shaw Ghyl, Hell Ghyl.
Beck, a small river or beck.
Sett, against : — generally a village set against or opposite to a
hill, as Burtersett, Countersett, Appersett.
Ware, to spend.
Gan, to go,
Gane, gone.
Lile, little.
Car, care. Hardrow, Aug. 25, 1885.
[Our friend has omitted to mention that grand sight of some
winters back, when Hardrow-force was one mass of ice. Photo*
graphs were taken of it.]
• This was (and slightly lingers still,) the custom in various parts of York-
shire on Shrore Tuesday, at 11 1
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 11
HARDROW SCAR.
A Descriptive Poem by Rev. J. Fawcett.
While modern bards depict the scenes of war,
The rival muse resorts to Hardrow Scar,
A strange hiatus formed in nature's mould,
A striking portrait wondrous to behold.
On first approaching this romantic place.
Majestic rocks the op'ning prospect grace,
A humble cottage at the foot appears,
Above, a towering hill its summit rears.
A scene of grandeur meets the ravished eye,
Here rocks impend, there moss-grown fragments lie,
While round the top or elms or ashes grow,
And form an ombre o'er the gulf below.
Amidst the rocks, and near the centre, stands
A curious pile as if composed with hands ;
Ingenious nature here displays a part
That seems to rival all the traits of art.
Yet what excites our wonder most of all
Is the renowned Cascade — the water-fall.
When low the river, and the day is bright,
The stream descending forms a brilliant sight ;
A thousand colours beauteously display
The various power of Sol's reflective ray,
While o'er the top a pond'rous rock impends
In awful grandeur, as the stream descends ;
But if incessant rains have swelled the rills
That pour spontaneous from the neighbouring hills,
And these united in one common course
Rush down the precipice with rapid force,
From the deep gulf the raging flood recoils
And hideous, roaring, like Cb&rybdis boils.
The gazing trav'ller, with uplifted hands,
In dread amazement at a distance stands,
8truck with the scene he contemplates it o'er,
And tries the work of nature to explore ;
Then tired, at last, he quits his nice surveys
And on the Scar betows his meed of praise.
12 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
The Poob Man's Bane and Antidote.
Poverty, begone ! thou dread source of my care,
Thou parent of sorrow and nurse of despair ;
Through thee life's a portion embittered with gall
I trust there's a Providence careth for all.
I find with regret the old adage too true —
When Fortune deserts us our friends are but few,
Yet blessed with content, though my pittance is small,
I know there's a Providence careth for all.
To numberless ills so [oft subject] * are we,
From suffering and sorrow no mortal is free.
Distress was entailed on our race through the fall
Yet still the same Providence careth for ail.
What though I am plunged in misfortune and woe,
And mis'ry and want are my portion below,
Joy beams on my soul which no grief can appal
From the trust that a Providence careth for all.
Then why should I fret and in anguish despair,
Since man still is Heaven's peculiar oare,
This anchor of hope shall my spirit console
A firm trust that a Providence careth for all. per J.G.
• Obnoxious, in copy.
Yorkshire lialetts.
Each of the numerous Yorkshire valleys has its own peculiar
words and modes of pronunciation ; nay, there is frequently a
marked difference on opposite sides of a valley, and between the
dwellers in the upper and lower dales. By the aid of oar
philological friends, we hope to register the dialectic peculiar-
ities of each district ; and we commence with a list compiled a
dozen or twenty years ago of words and pronunciations common
to Galder Yale, from the source of the river to Wakefield. It
need scarcely be added that omissions— few or many — will be
thankfully inserted as supplied. Some of the words are recog-
nized as good English, and found almost throughout the country,
but we give the list in its entirety.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOREL 18
Aaae-verae, a ' spell ' on a house, to prevent its being burnt, or
to keep off witchcraft.
Aboon, above, more than.
Abaht, about.
Abide, tolerate.
Ackerons, ackerils, acorns.
Addle, to earn ; addlins, earnings. " Savin' 's gooid addlin'."
Afore, before.
Agate'ards, to accompany part of the way.
Agait, get agate, begin.
Agate, annoying; "Agate o' sumdy," (somebody.)
Ah, oi, I ; ah-ther-say, I dare say.
Aht, out ; ahted, put out ; ahtin, outing or excursion ; aht o'
t'gate, out of the way, or dead.
Ait, eat ; Saxon aete.
Aight, ought, or owed; "handed down to us by our Saxon
ancestors." Watson's Halifax.
Akst, banns of marriage published.
Aks, ax, ask, from acsian. Used by Chaucer and other writers.
Alegar (Elliker) Well, near Kirklees, a noted < holy well."
Aleker, elliker, vinegar.
Alehoof, ground ivy, used in brewing, formerly.
Amang, among ; Saxon gemang.
Ample, a corruption of amble.
A nod glass, a nuther, a nahnce ; an odd glass, an other, an
ounce.
All-hallow-tide, All Saints' day, November 1st.
All aht, entirely ; all nowt, nothing ; all ta nowt,
Alley, passage, also aisle.
All theare, self-possessed ; not all theare, short of intellect.
Anent, opposite ; we hear " opposite anent " ; sometimes
" ower anent."
Apprun, apprum, apron.
Ammut, am not.
Arr, vicious, as, arr toad.
Arless, an earnest penny. (Watson's Halifax.)
A-e, though now considered a vulgar and indecent word, is
frequently used without any intention of being indecent.
It is found in old writings, particularly ballads. Saxon,
breach or fundament.
[Cart- a-e] behind a cart, tied behind a cart.
Ar-e-smart, water pepper-plant.
Arran, a spider ; Latin.
Arrandweb, spider's web.
Arrant, downright, monstrous, arrant rogue.
ABsart, to grub roots up, land cleared of roots.
Ask, keen, piercing, as, an ask mruh
Asteead, instead.
14 YOBKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE.
Askerd, " dry askerd," a land lizard ; " watter askerd," a newt.
Ass, ashes, cinders.
Assemever, how-so-ever, however.
" Tremmle, (tremble) like an aspin leaf," trembling poplar.
At, t/tat : probably a Danish habit.
Aumery, a provision cupboard.
An-all, also ; but really is and all ; l him an-all " means " him
also."
Aumust, almost.
Awand, a warrant, as, I'll awand tliee.
Awms-haases, owms-hahses, alms-houses.
Awf, elf; also a sly fellow. " Awf- Houses " in Hipperholme,
"Half," or "Elf"?
Awther, ayther, either. Saxon awther.
Anparcy, and parcel, &o. " x, y, z, and parcel, goa ta bed."
Arridge, edge or ridge, in front of the horse shoe.
Arvil-cake, bread given to poor people at funerals. Now a
Savoy biscuit is given.
At-after, afterward.
Assoyl, absolve. On a gravestone found in Ilkley Church.
Obsolete.
Avver-breead, oat-cake.
Awfish, sickly, neither ill nor well ; half-ish.
Aye, eea, ah ; yes.
Aye Marry, Ave Mary, Hail Mary ! yes, surely.
B thru a bull fooit, one who does not know the alphabet ; an
illiterate.
Baarns, children. Saxon-baeran, to bear.
" The blissful Barne that bought us on the rode." [ Cross.]
Shakespeare and other old writers use it.
Bang-full, bank-full, brim-full.
Balack-handed, left-handed, gauchy.
Bahn, going. Where are ta balm * |Tm bahn to go, I am
going away.]
Bain, near, convenient. (Watson).
Bat, bundle of straw. " The straw of two wheat-sheaves."
(Watson.)
Bat, speed, to go at a great bat.
Bat, a knock on the head.
Bad, a cricketer's bat.
Bawson, ugly, brutish fellow.
Bauk, a beam, joist.
Bauk, to disappoint, disappointment.
Badger, flour-dealer.
Baarly, barly, a truce when boys are* at play; "parley;"
"by your leave."
Bas, a doormat. German — ajruslu
Beade, a prayer ; obsolete.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 15
Beck, a brook. Scandinavian — a small stream.
Beass, beasts, cows.
" Begin at t'beginnin,' like t'clark o* Beeston."
Beest, firstjnilk after the cow has calved. It was formerly
distributed among the customers gratuitously, and a rich
Yorkshire pudding made from it.
Bezzlt, drunken, tipsy.
Bensel, to soundly beat, thrash a person.
Bene, beneson, blessing.
Belive, in the evening, quickly, immediately. (Watson.)
Bell, belling, bellowing.
Benin, burying, funeral.
Birk, birch; Saxon-berc, "Birk-hill," "American birk."
Bildering, levelling the ground, breaking the clouds ; billing.
Bid, to invite ; bid to burying.
Bigging, a building; big, to build. (Watson.)
Blags, blackberries, fruit of bramble, one of the sweetest of
fruits, and makes a delicious preserve. "Bumblekites," N.R.Y.
Blade, slang term for a sharp, cutting fellow.
Bleared, besmeared, sticky substance; "bleared to th' een."
Blether, bladder : " as a full bleddere," Piers Plowman, 1890.
Welsh, dd and th often interchange.
Blether-eead, a wrong head, an empty head ; like a bladder.
Blether, blethered, blethering, roared, wept.
Bluthered, bellowed, roared, wept.
Blink, evade.
Bloke, a name of contempt applied to persons.
Boadle, half-farthing. We were well pleased formerly if we got
a boadle-worth of spice, [sweets.]
Boken, nauseate, inclination to vomit.
Bother, trouble.
Bonny, beautiful.
Bosm, bosom. Saxon-bosm.
Botch, a novice at workmanship, a jobber, but not a cow-jobber.
Boggard, ghost, common to Northern languages. "Be not
afraid of the bugs (terrors, evil spirits) by night." One
scarcely dare stir out on dark nights before gas lights were
common for fear of boggards.
Boh, to frighten; "Boh, son of Odin." — Fosbroke.
Bolster, bowster drawer, pillow-case, pillow-beer.
Bolster, a boy against whom another places his head at the
game " Ships."
Brackle, broken, unsettled; " brackle weather."
Brackens, fern. Used still for bedding for cattle during winter,
instead of straw.
Brah, brow, bank of a hill. ? Brea in Over Brea.
Braidy, foolish. (Watson.)
Bran-new, brand new, burnt new, quite new. *
16 YORKSHIBE FOLK-LOBE.
Brake, broken.
Brag, boasting.
Brades, resembles, acts like.
Brat, a pinafore, coarse apron. Used by Chaucer. * Brat '-ft
child, is seldom used in Calder Vale.
Breet, bright; Saxon-breoht.
Brander, Brandrith, an iron, over the fire place, to set a vessel
upon. Also an iron frame on which Yorkshire puddings
are baked.
Bray, to beat, to pound, to hammer, to break.
Brig, bridge; Saxon-brig, "Brighus for Brighouse, Brigg,
Briggs." Used by old writers.
Briggs, a two-forked branch of a tree, similar to Y, placed
across the brewing tub, on which was placed the hop-seive,
and all the liquor ' strained ' through it. Recent legislation
on ' home brewing * will render this description necessary
for the next generation.
Brocks, old name for badgers or pates ; used by the Bev. Oliver
Heywood.
Brocks, cuckoo spit, an insect. " Sweat like a brick,1' properly,
" Sweat like a brock." the little fly which envelopes itself
in ' spit ' for self-defence, found by thousands on the grass
on road sides in spring. The spit is locally called " cuckoo
spit."
Brief, a funeral club. Probably the name is derived from the
briefs granted by magistrates authorizing collections in
places of worship for persons &c, suffering from fires, ship*
wrecks, floods, before the days of Insurance Societies.
Bridle sty, a road for horses but not for vehicles.
Breward, braward, the rim of a hat.
Broached, broiched, a spire steeple, (Watson) ; tapping a barrel.
Brust, burst.
Bukth, bulkth, great size.
Bun, bound, bond.
Bur, to stop a boy's marble ; to put a block or stone behind a
cartwheel ; to prop, as a bur-wall ; to burrow ; a rabbit's
bur.
Buck-hummer, used as an invective ; " Go to Buck-hummer,
where there's nother winter nor sunagner."
Butty, partnership, rendering mutu&Hielp, often surreptitiously.
Butter and Cheese, the tender leaves of the thorn. Some
children are fond of eating them.
Butts, abuttals, (French^, boundaries. Used also as a verb.
Also for the place where archers met to shoot at a mark.
Buokstick, a smart or brave fellow.
By, in place names, is found at Sowerby. Danish.
Byerlaw, by-law, b6rough-laws.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
17
Pbophst Wbob. — Bonks, in his "Walks in Yorkshire,'*
records that Wroe's house at Wrenthorpe was broken into by
burglars in 1842, and in consequence of false statements, made
by Wroe's son, daughter, and servant, three innocent persons
were transported for ten years but released at the end of five
years, as it had been discovered to be the work of others, and
the servant declared she had given her statements under com-
pulsion. The three convicts returned home to find their homes
ruined. Prophet Wroe's mansion, otherwise Melbourne House,
was built in 1866-7, at a cost of £9,000. It is two storeys
high, Doric in style, and has a frontage of about ninety feet
toward Wakefield. This temple for the Israelites was left' by
his will to his grandchildren. The old house at Bowling,
where the prophet was born, is still standing, and we give an
excellent sketch of it made by Mr. W. Scruton.
Wroe began his mission in 1822, issued his Southcottian
writings about 1828 ; travelled in Spain, Italy, Germany, Scot-
land and Wales ; was mobbed in Bradford and Ashton-under-
Lyne in 1881, settled in and near Wakefield about 1882, visited
America and Australia — the latter several times, and died at
Melbourne in that colony, in 1864.
Burials in Woollen. — Two witnesses were required to
certify on oath, immediately after any funeral ceremony took
place, that the deceased person was buried in woollen. Entries
in our parish registers, referring to this custom, are not in-
frequent. Generally the woman who " laid out " the body, and
a relative, took the oath. The following is a copy of the
printed certificate, 9} inches by 7J, and is worthy of insertion
in the pages of Y. N. d Q.f because (1) of its great scarcity ;
T.F. C
18
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
(one in the possession of Mr. W. Scruton being the only one I
have ever seen), (2) it bears a local Bookseller's name, and (8)
its pictorial embellishments are admonishing if not charming*
A monument at Otley bears a sculptured alto-relief copy of *
winding sheet, with the face uncovered.
of the Parish of
in the of make Oath, That
of the Parish of
in the. of
lately Deceased, was not put in, wrapt,
or wound up,
or Buried, in ant/ Shirt, Shift, Sheet, or
Shrowd, made or mingled with
Flax, Hemp, Silk, Hair, Gold or Silver,
or other than what is made of
Sheep s Wool only: Nor in any Cojfin
lined or faced with any Cloth, Stuff,
or any other thing whatsoever made or
mingled with Flax, Hemp, Silk,
Hair, Gold or Silver, or any other
Material, contrary to the Act of
Parliament for Burying in Woollen, hut
Sheep s Wool only.
Dated the of
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord,
Charles the Second, King of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender
of the Faith. And in the year of our
Lord God, 16
•Sealed and subscribed by us
who were present, and Wit-
nesses to the swearing of
the abovesaid Affidavit-
YORKSHIKE FOLK-LORE. 19
do hereby Certifie, that the Day and Year abovesaid, the said
came before me, and made such Affidavit as
is above mentioned, according to the said late Act of
Parliament, Intituled, An Act for Burying in Woollen.
Witness my Hand the Day and Year above-written.
London : printed for John Penrose, Bookseller in Leedes.
By tlte SO Curl. #., St. 1, c S. — For the encouragement of the
Woollen Manufactures, and prevention of the exportation of
money for the importing of linen, it is enacted that no corps
(sic) of any person shall be buried in any shirt, shift, sheet or
shroud, or any thing whatsoever made or mingled with flax,
hemp, silk, hair, gold or silver, &c, in any stuff or thing, other
than what is made of sheep's wool only ; on pain of £5.
And all persons in holy orders, deans, parsons, deacons,
vicars, curates and their substitutes, shall take in account and
keep a register of every person buried within their respective
precincts, or in such common burial places as their respective
parishioners are usually buried ; and one of the relations of the
party deceased, or other credible person, shall within eight
days next after the interment, bring an affidavit in writing
under the hands and seals of two or more witnesses, and under
the hand of the Magistrate or Officer before whom the same
was sworn (for which nothing shall be paid), to the minister or
person, that the said person was not put in, wrapt or wound
up or buried, in any shirt, shift, sheet or shroud, made or
mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold or silver, or other
than what is made of sheep's wool only ; or in any coffin lined
or faced with any cloth, stuff, or any other thing made or
mingled with flax, hemp, &c, or any other material but sheep's
wool only; And if no relation of the party buried or other
person shall bring an affidavit as aforesaid, to the parson or
minister within the time aforesaid, then the goods and chattels
of the party deceased shall be liable to the said forfeiture of £5,
to be levied by way of distress and sale thereof, by warrant of
* This Capital I is adorned with a flowering plant on each side.
20 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
the chief Magistrate in a town corporate, or any Justice of the
Peace ; or in default thereof, by like distress and sale of the
goods of the person in whose house the party died, or of any
that had a hand in putting such person into any shirt, shift,
shroud or coffin, contrary to the act, or did order or dispose
the doing thereof; and in case such person were a servant, and
died in the family of his master or mistress, the same shall be
levied on the goods of such master or mistress, and if such per-
son died in the family of his father or mother, then the same to
be levied on the goods of such father or mother ; which said
forfeiture shall be levied, paid and allowed, out of the estate of
the deceased person before any statute, judgment, debt, legacy,
or other duty whatsoever.
The said Affidavit to be made before a Justice of the Peace,
or Master of Chancery, Mayor, or other Chief Officer of the city,
borough, corporation, or market Town where the party was
buried, who shall administer the said oath, and attest the same
under their hands upon such Affidavit gratis. And if no such
Affidavit shall be brought to the minister where the party was
buried within eight days, such Minister shall forthwith give or
cause notice to be given in writing under his hand to the
churchwardens or overseers of the poor of such parish, who '
shall within eight days after such notice, repair to the chief
magistrate in a town corporate, if such party was buried there,
or else to any justice of the peace, who upon the certificate
thereof from such minister, shall forthwith grant a wan-ant for
the levying the forfeiture : Half of which forfeitures shall be to
the poor of the parish where the party shall be buried, and half
to him that shall sue for the same ; to be recovered by warrant
of the chief Magistrate or any justice of peace in the city, town
corporate, or county where such party was buried.
Then follows a clause setting forth that — If any Minister
shall neglect to give notice to the churchwardens or overseers
of the poor, or not give unto them a note or certificate that such
affidavit was not brought to him within the time limited ; or if
the churchwardens, or overseers of the poor, shall not within
eight days after the receipt of such certificate, repair to such
chief Magistrate or justice of the peace with such certificate and
demand his warrant thereupon for levying the forfeiture ; and
if such magistrate or justice of the peace shall neglect his duty
in not issuing his warrant for levying the same, he shall forfeit
£5, to be recovered by him that shall sue, with full costs, so as
the suit be commenced within six months ; one fourth to the
King, two fourths to the poor of the parish where the offender
shall dwell, and one fourth to him who shall sue.
The Minister of every parish to keep a register in which he
shall keep an account of all burials within his parish, and of all
affidavits brought to him as aforesaid.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 21
Provided that no penalty shall be incurred by reason of any
person that died of the plague. W.6.
Cubes fob Wabts. — Your note on SeUiny Warts in No. 1, re-
minds me of a few " Notes " made, Captain Cuttle like, some
years ago when I heard the cures mentioned: — If you have
warts that you want to be rid, try some of the following
remedies, which I have been told are never failing cures. Hell
them to some one, a friend, and then wrap up the money re-
ceived, be it a penny or more, and hide it, not looking at it
again, and you will soon lose your warts ; so my informant, a
woman, told me, and she had it done, and successfully too, she
said. Other remedies are — Rub them with raw beef, and then
bury the beef somewhere, and as the flesh decays so will your
warts die. Tie a piece of silk round the warts cutting off the
ends of the silk after tieing : wrap up the ends and lose them,
and you will soon lose your warts, not knowing how or when :
so my informant did, (again a woman,) and she lost her warts,
and never knew how. Bub them with a cinder and then throw
the cinder over your head. This reminds me of a practice
we used to perform when I was a boy at school. When we
found one of these long haired or downy snails, or caterpillars,
which are generally found in hedge bottoms and which we
called " Tommy Tailyers," we used to throw them over our
heads for luck. S.B.
Our readers will remember the instance of wart-cure by cut-
ting notches off a stick in Tom Bmwn's Schooldays. Ed.
A woman here, a noted Methodist, cures warts regularly
simply by looking at them. The usual advice is " Go to Mrs. —
and let her look at them." B.
Cure fob a Sobe Mouth. — A woman was going recently to
a medical man with her child who had a sore mouth, with a view
to have it cured, and meeting on the way with an old woman
whom she knew, told her her errand. The old woman said to
her go back home, and obtain a live frog and put it into the
child's mouth ; then pull it out by the legs and the child would
be cured, and not only that, but ever afterwards, any person
who might be suffering from a sore mouth might also be cured,
if her child should blow its breath into the mouth of the person
so afflicted. S.B.
Duck. — " The duck will come and lay you if you don't behave,"
was the expression used by a poor woman, whose child would
not keep quiet when my wife called on her. What is the mean-
ing of the word " duck "? G. W.
Botherham.
Finis.— Who does not remember his wonderful school-boy
feat of F. for fig, and I. for jig and N. for nigny no ne, I. for
John the Waterman and S. for Sally Stoney ? and still the
wonder grew how I. rather than J. should stand for John.
22 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Arkengarthdale. — A great majority of the Christian names
of the people here are Scriptural. When I came here, ten
years ago, I had in the School a Matthew, a Mark, Luke and a
John. Obadiah, Reuben, and Benjamin are not uncommon
names. There is a peculiar custom here with regard to the use
of Christian names — a custom which is even more prevalent in
the neighbouring dale (Swaledale). An illustration will make
plain the custom to which I refer : There is a person living in
the dale named Win. Slack, whose father's name was Andrew.
. He is almost invariably called Andrew Will. Sometimes three
and occasionally four Christian names are connected in this
way, the surname being omitted. In White's " Month in
Yorks." you will find a reference to this custom. The principal
Inn in this dale is called the C.B. — the initials it is said of
Charles Backhouse, the person who discovered lead in the dale
more than two centuries ago. H.G.
Prison Bars, or Run-out Scotch. — This is an old game for
boys, and a great favourite. It was a royal amusement in 1549.
It seems to have originated with the Scotch depredations. The
boys take opposite sides, and one of set A runs or ventures out
as scout, and is followed in hot haste by one of set B, who is
again followed by one from A, and he is also pursued. The
first may elude all his opponents and get back safely to his den.
Any that are caught by opponents, who left the den after they
departed, are sent to prisons. A's prison is at some distance
opposite B's den, and B's prison opposite A's den. One of As
lot can release an imprisoned countryman if he can manage to
touch him before a B touches the gallant rescuer. The game
is really up when all are caught save one, or if a den is totally
abandoned. The enemy leaps over the line, and raises a jubilant
shout of victory. If tjie armies are face to face the prisons are
kept in the enemies' dens, and all the skirmishing is between
the dens, with the greatest latitude commandable. This is
called " Short Scotch." E.R.
Shipley.
Fair Imogene. — Where can I find a poem beginning: "A
warrior so bold and a maiden so bright " ? M.T.
Spiders.— It is said to be unlucky to kill spiders. The very
small spiders we see suspended by a thread of web, are known
as money-spinners, and are said to betoken good fortune to
those they visit. I.B.
What is the Ghost Story of Woodsome Hall ? J.H.I.
The Bretton Ballad cannot be very old, from the substitu-
tion of beer for ale, and the common use of gla*$e&, not cups or
horns. I.B.
. Obnoxious. — " The Poor Man's Bane and Antidote," page 12,
should properly be — "To numberless ills vlmoxiou* are we."
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOJtE. 2a
The word obnoxious has two meanings the older one is "liable/*
the later one is "disagreeable, repulsive, offensive," &c, and
any good dictionary will give both forms. I.B.
Alegab, is not, correctly speaking, vinegar. Alegar was
formerly made from stale ale, vinegar from wine, or grapes.
The latter word has been improperly adopted in both cases. I
can remember when it was otherwise, at least in Manchester.
LB.
fjorksljir* Sallabs.
The following ballad, communicated by the Rev. J. L. Say-
well, F.R.H.S., F.S.Sc, (London), was written by a lady on
the occasion of the Duke of Gloucester's visit to Ackworth in
October, 1828 :—
" I trust my muse will not refuse
To celebrate the happy day
When Gloucester's Duke his court forsook,
And to the Country hied his way.
T'was Gantley Hall which first of all
Received this most illustrious guest ;
What there befell I cannot tell,
I must proceed to speak the rest.
All in the dark to Kippax* Park
The royal stranger sped amain,
Perchance that he disliked to see
On Pomfret's wall, the bloody stain.
All danger past, arrived at last,
He finds a noble party there,
The welcome said, the board is spread
With fish, and soup, and viands rare.
And fowl and game, both wild and tame,
Were all in tasteful plenty given,
And fruit so fine, and choicest wine
From every country under heaven.
Each day and night, with rapid flight
In gay succession sunk and rose ;
The time is flown the Duke is gone,
I must pursue him as he goes.
Jm!* objeet of the Duke's visit, was to stand sponsor to the twelfth child
of Thomas Davidson Bland, Esq., of Kippax.
24 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
A friendly call at Hundhill* Hall
Impedes him in bis hasty coarse ;
He there would stay the Sabbath day,
• That day of rest for man and horse.
Then in the morn to Ghurchf he's borne,
But not in car of royal state ;
To lay aside all thoughts of pride,
Full well becomes the rich and great.
The Rector's]: seat, as (h)is most meet,
Receives him with a train of friends ;
The bells have rung, the hymn is sung ;
The congregation mute attends.
" God save the King," or some such thing,
Is sung with ready glee and art ;
Then out they pour forth from the door,
And for the Quaker's school depart. §
All in amaze, with steady gaze,
The assembled crowd astonished stare,
Take a last look at Gloucester's Duke,
Then to their several homes repair.
The school is seen,§ so neat and clean ;
The boys and girls prepare to eat ;
The dinner brought, the grace is thought, ||
Who would not relish such a treat ?
The meal is done, the clock strikes one,
The noble party onward passed ;
T'was pleasure all at Hundhill Hall
That even, but it was the last.
The noble guest awakes from rest,
And takes his leave with grief so true ;
The coach and four are at the door
. Adieu, Adieu, Adieu, Adieu ! "
The caJigraphy of the original MS is very obscure, and al-
though several hiati are apparent, the rhyme is a good specimen
of the Yorkshire ballad.
* The residence of Mrs. Bland, mother of T. D. Bland, Esq., and two or
three unmarried daughters. It was said that she had been kind to the Duke
when he was a young officer in the army, hence his intimacy with the family
J.L.S.
t Ackworth Church. J Rev. W. R. Hay, M.A.
{ The writer's chronology is doubtful. The visit to Ackworth 8ehool took
place on Monday morning, the festivities on Monday evening, and the depar-
ture on Tuesday Morning.
i| After the manner of the Quakers.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE. 25
In the Ballad— " The History of Sir John Elland of Eland,
and his Antagonists," given in " Whitaker's History of Leeds,"
one Verse has been omitted. The ballad as given in " Watson's
Halifax " consists of 124 verses, but Whitaker has only given
128, having omitted verse no. 116 which is as follows : —
" And then they slew him out of hand,
Dispatch'd him of his pain ;
The late death of their Lord Eland
Inforced them certain."
It will perhaps be as well to give the 115th verse in order to
understand the above.
" When Eland men returned home
Thro Aneley Wood that day,
Then they found Quarmby laid alone,
Scarce dead, as some men say."
Batlbt. W. Colbeck Dyson, F.S.A. (Scot).
Witches axd Broomsticks (vol. 1, p. 2). — Perhaps the follow-
ing remarks will not be unacceptable to your correspondent : —
The notorious besom or broomstick is an instrument in the
operations of witchcraft common to all the Aryan nations.
According to the " Asiatic Register," for 1801, the Eastern, as
well as the European witches, "practice (sic) their spells by
dancing at midnight, and the principal instrument they use on
such occasions is a broom." It is regarded as " a type of the
winds, and therefore an appropriate utensil in the hands of the
witches, who are wind makers and workers in that element."
Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore, by C. Hardwick, 1872,
p. 116. F. C. Bibkbeck Terry.
Notes on Township of High Abbotside, (vol. 1, p. 9). — The
explanation of " formel" given by your correspondent is incorrect.
The word has nothing at all to do with " forward," but is from
the A. 8. "fur-mtBl,"an agreement, a treaty, &c; hence the verb
means to bespeak, order, &c. Again, " Scar " never means a
"waterfall," but a rock from Icelandic "sker," isolated rook,
and is cognate with " share." " Sett " has nothing to do with
the meaning of " against," but probably means " seat," " settle-
ment," " possession."
It may be as well to mention that Hardraw Force was frozen
in January, 1881, an event, I believe, which had never occured
since the great frost of 1789-40. F. C. Bibkbeck Terry.
Christmas Observances at York in the Olden Time. — The
ceremony of " the Sheriff's riding " used to be one of the greatest
observances in the city of York, but. is now discontinued. The
riding day was usually on Wednesday, eight days after Martin*
mas, but they were not strictly tied to that day; any day
betwixt Martinmas and Christmas would serve for the ceremony.
26 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
They then appeared on horseback, apparelled in their black
gowns and velvet tippets. Their horses were in suitable costume,
and each sheriff carried a white wand in his hand, a badge of
his office, and there was a servant to lead his horse, who also
carried a gilded truncheon. Serjeants-at-mace, attorneys, and
other officers of their court then came on horseback, in their
gowns, preceded by the city waits in their scarlet liveries and
silver badges, playing all the way through the streets, one of
these wearing on his head a red or pink tattered cap or
badge. They then went at the toll of the bell to Allhallows'
Kirk, in the Pavement, to hear a mass of St. Thomas. When
the mass was over, they made a proclamation at the Pillory of
the Yoole-Girthal in the form that follows : — " 0 yes, &c. We
command in our liege lord's behalf, the King of England, whom
God save and keep, that the peace of the King be well kept
within this city, by night and by day, with all manner of men
both gentle and simple, &c. Also we command that the bakers
of the city bake good bread, and that no baker nor huckster
put to sale any manner of bread, unless that it be sealed with a
seal delivered from the sheriffs, also that the brewers of the city
brew good ale and wholesome for man's body, &c. Also that
all manner of thieves, diceplayers, and all other unthrifty folks
be welcome to the town, whether they come late cr early, at the
reverence of the high feast of Yoole, till the twelve days be
passed.'* After this proclamation, the four sergeants shall go
and ride whither they will, and one of them shall have a horn
of brass of the Toolbooth, and the other three sergeants shall
have each a horn, and so go forth to the four Bars of the city
and blow the Yoole -girth, &c. The origin of this custom is said
to be as follows : — " William the Conqueror in the third year
of his reign (on St. Thomas's day) laid siege to the city of York,
but finding himself unable either by policy or strength to gain
it, raised the siege, which he had no sooner done, but by acci-
dent he met with two Fryers at a place called Skelton not far
from York, who, being examined, told him they belonged to a
poor Fryery of St. Peter's in York, and had been to seek relief
for their Fellows and themselves against Christmas, the one
having a wallet full of victuals and a shoulder of mutton in his
hand, with two great cakes hanging about his neck, the other
having bottles of ale with provisions likewise of beef and mutton
in his wallet. The King knowing their poverty and condition
thought they might be serviceable to him towards the attaining
York, wherefore (being accompanied by Sir George Fothergill,*
General of the field, a Norman baron), he gave them money and
promised that if they would let him and his soldiers into their
Priory at a time appointed he would not only rebuild their
• Who ever heard of General Fothergill before? Where has the writer got
his information ?
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 27
Priory, but endow it likewise with large revenues and ample
privileges. The Fryers easily consented and the Conqueror as
soon sent back his army, which that night, according to agree-
ment, were let into the Fryery by the two Fryers, by which they
immediately made themselves masters of all York, after which
Sir Robert Clifford, who was Governor thereof, was so far from
being blamed by the Conqueror for his stout defence made the
preceding days that he was highly esteemed and rewarded for
his valour, being created Lord Clifford, and there knighted with
the four magistrates then in office, viz. Howngate, Talbott,
Lassels, and Erringham. The arms of the city of York at that
time were Argent, a cross Gules, viz. St. George's Cross. The
Conqueror charged the cross with five lions passant gardant or
in memory of the five worthy captains magistrates who governed
the city so well that he afterwards made Sir Robert Clifford
governor thereof and the other four to aid him in counsel, and
the better to keep the city in obedience he built two castles and
double moated them about, and to show the confidence and
trust he put in these old but new made officers, he offered them
freely to ask whatsoever they would of him before he went, and
he would grant their request, wherefore they (abominating the
treachery of the two Fryers to their eternal infamy) desired that
on 8t. Thomas's day for ever they might have a Fryer of the
Priory of St. Peter's to ride through the city on horseback with
his face to the horse's tail and that in his hand instead of a
bridle he should have a rope and in the other a shoulder of
mutton, with one cake hanging on his back, and another on his
breast, with his face painted like a Jew, and the youths of the
city to ride with him, and to cry and shout ( Yoole ! Yoole ! '
with the officers of the city riding before and making proclam-
ation that on this day the city was betrayed. Their request
was granted them, which custom continued till the dissolution
of the said Fryery and afterwards in imitation of the same the
young men and artizans of the city on the aforesaid St.
Thomas's day used to dress up one of their companions like
the Fryer and call him Yoole, this being done in memory
of betraying the city by the said Fryers to William the
Conqueror."
Thb York City Waits. — On the 1st December, 1571, it was
ordered and agreed that the common waits of the city of York,
"for divers good causes and considerations, shall from hence-
forth use and keep their morning watch with their instruments
accustomed, every day in the week except only Sundays, and in
the time of Christmas only, any custom or usage heretofore had
and used amongst them, or others before them to the contrary,
notwithstanding." But on the 2nd of February, 1770, another
order was made, which is read to them on their several appoint-
ments, as follows : — " You shall be obedient to the Lord Mayor,
28 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
or his Deputy for the time being, and shall attend and play
upon such musical instruments as you are best masters of, in
all service of the Corporation when required by him or his
Deputy. You shall attend the Sheriffs of this city in their public
oavalcade to read the proclamation on or about Martinmas, as
also each Sheriff, on the day he makes an entertainment for the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen, for which service you shall receive
from each Sheriff one guinea, but if the Sheriffs, or either of
them, require your further attendance for the entertainment of
their friends after the aforesaid days, then you shall be paid as
such service may deserve. You shall call the city from the
Monday after Martinmas to the end of February, that is every
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the morning, (Fast dayB
and Christmas week excepted)/' Thos. Haxuy.
Wassailing. — In nearly all parts of Yorkshire, the week
after Christmas, children go from house to house with a box
containing two dolls, one to represent the Virgin Mary and the
other the child Jesus, and various ornaments. They sing the
following primitive verses : —
Here we come a wassailing,
Among the leaves so green ;
Here we come a wandering,
So fair to be seen.
Uwrwt. — Love and joy come to you,
And to your wassail too ;
And God send you a happy new year ;
A new year ;
And God send you a happy new year.
Our wassail cup is made of the rosemary tree,
So is your beer of the best barley.
We are not daily beggars
That beg from door to door,
But we are neighbours* children,
Whom you have seen before.
Call up the butler of this house.
Put on his golden ring ;
Bid him bring up a glass of beer,
The better that we may sing.
We have got a little purse,
Made of shining leather skin ;
We want a little of your money
To line it well within.
Bring us out a table,
And spread the table-cloth ;
Bring us out a mouldy cheese,
And some of your Christmas loaf.
YORKSHIBE FOLK-LOBE. 2fr
God bless the master of this house,
Likewise the mispress too ;
And all the little children,
That around the table go.
Good master and mistress,
While you're sitting by the fire,
Pray think of us poor children
Who are wandering in the mire.
[The following is the Chorus in Calderdale :
For it is at Christmas time
Strangers travel far and near,
So God bless you, and send you
A happy now year :
So God bless you, and send you
A happy new year.
The Carol was formerly sung on New Year's day only, and
chiefly by girls, who carried a holly-bush decorated with ribbons
and dolls, and having apples and oranges suspended from the
branches. The jingle ran as follows :
d-r m-f s-m r-
s, d-t, d-m r-
r m-r d-t, d-r Da-
rn r-t, 1,-t, d.-
Chorus— 1,-t, d-d d-1, t,-
d-1, 8,-fe, s,-l, t,-
s,-l, t,-m-r d-1,-
d m-d-d-d-
8,-1, t,-m-r d-1,-
d m-d-d-d. ]
Devil's Knell. — At Dewsbury, Yorkshire, it is the custom
to toll the bells, as at a funeral, every Christmas Eve, which
ringing is called the " devil's knell/' meaning that the devil
died when Christ was born.
Chkistmas Customs. — Christmas has again come round with
its accompanying customs and feastings. Some of its customs
we of high antiquity, and very generally diffused. It will,
perhaps, not be out of place to record them as we find them in
our day. The history of each custom would form an article of
itself, so we must confine ourselves to a bare recital of them.
Our good dames of the olden type are still very anxious to
stcnre a yule log, which some term a ' unionclog.' The word
'yule' leads our thoughts back to days of heathenism, and
reminds us that our Christ's Mass is founded on the ancient
heathen yule feast. A superstitious notion still obtains, that
H is unlucky to light a fire either on Christmas or New Year's
80 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
mornings. Whilst the yule log is blazing, groups of young
men, and sometimes youpg women, (chiefly composed of
Sunday Scholars or Chapel Choirs,) sing the well-known
Christmas Hymn —
" Christians, awake ! salute the happy morn/'
To the tune called ' Yorkshire.' They have generally a bass,
flute, concertina, or harmonium, to play the prelude and
interlude —
* " Tom, torn, the roddi diddi,
Diddi diddi, hey ow om."
The local brass band is, of course, the chief musical body, and
plays the same tune.
We people of Brighouse are apt to think that this hymn and
tune is common over the wide English world, and nearly as old
as Christianity ; but the contrary is the fact. By five o'clock
in the morning, the night carolling has mostly subsided, and
young boys prowl from door to door to "let Christmas in,"
which they announce in the following strain : —
" I wish you a merry Christmas,
And a happy New Year,
A pocket full of money,
And a cellar full of beer,
And a great fat pig
To kill every year."
For these good wishes they expect a penny or a half-penny.
Sometimes either through ignorance or desire to obtain a larger
donation, they construe this nomeny into —
" A cellar full of money,
And a pocket full of beer,
And two fat pigs
To kill every year."
The ridiculous superstition that boys with black hair are the
lucky ones, still clings to the benighted minds of some persons.
Breakfast time comes, when the rich Christmas or spice-cake
is brought out. The carollers and musicians pay their second
visit, not merely to play 'Yorkshire,' 'The Last Wish/ and
' Hail, Smiling Morn,' but to receive cash, bread, cheese, and
beer,— the last-named article to such an extent, sometimes, as
to drive both music and devotion out of their soul. Breakfast
being finished, the male part of the family adjourn to the lanes,
fields, and ponds, to divert themselves with the bracing games
of foot-ball, skating, sliding, &c; whilst within, the good ladies
are busily preparing dinner— Christmas dinner, remember !—
such fare as only comes once a year,— prime roast beef, or it
* Key D. m. s. f. m. I r. rr. r.m. f.r. I m. m.m. m. r. m.f.
| Tom torn | Tom torn
a. 8.8. s. 1. t. d\ j d. d. d. d. r. m. f. I 8. 1. s. f. m. r. d.
Tom torn | Tom torn | Biddy Diddy
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 31
may be goose, turkey, &c, &c, and the jolly-looking plum
padding, and other et cetera* too numerous to mention. Dinner
over, oat-door games are resumed, or families gather round
their respective hearths, and spend the afternoon in pleasant
conversation. Christmas is especially the season of family
gatherings, — when the absent ones join their family circle, to
spend a " merry Christmas " at home. Evening brings with it
an abundance of public and private parties, with their varied
attractions, from the gay ball to the little ' toffy ' party. This
is the time for in-door enjoyments, and this evening is perhaps
the most enjoyable one of the year. During the day, deputies
from the various trades solicit Christmas boxes (though they
are not particular about the box, now-a-days, if they only get
the money) from the firms with whom their firm does business.
These deputies visit the neighbouring towns, and divide the
proceeds on their return.
St. Thomas' Day ( 21st December) was till recently the great
alms-giving day, and a few years ago each boy and girl that
went to Crow Nest, Toothill, &c, received a penny.
The last evening of the year is devoted to mumming, or
disguising, but its devotees claim a few nights before and after
the chief night. Boys, and even young men and women, dis-
guise themselves, blacken their faces, or wear grotesque masks,
dress in the costume of the opposite sex, and obtain admittance
to houses mostly by deception. Having entered, they * play the
nigger,' sing and dance ; but formerly they cleaned the fireirons
and fender. The fire must be kept in, particularly through the
last night of the year. " Letting the New Year in," or the
"first foot," as the Scotch term it, is of more importance than
Christmas day with many old ladies. It has become common
at some chapels to hold a * watch night/ or prayer meeting, at
12 p.m., December 81st. The old people have long been ac-
customed to sit up and see the New Year in.
New Year's Day is the proper day for the Wassailers, chiefly
girls, who sing the ancient ballad —
44 Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green,"
or as some say, 4 amongst the Lucy Green ! ' They, like the
mummers, see the disadvantage of coming last for the money ;
bo they have recently begun on Christmas Day, and had a week's
carolling. The decorated holly-bush has degenerated into a
decorated herring box.
Motheb Shipton. — " Carriages shall go without horses," was
quoted as an old prophecy of Mother Shipton's when I was a
child, long before the Brighton Bookseller published his fabri-
cation ; and even then it was a prophecy after the fact, the
Manchester and Liverpool railway having just been .opened. I
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have had a copy made of the prophecy preserved in the Percy
family, and referred to as by Mother S. but it neither bears her
name, nor has any connection with her. I.B.
MOTHER ShIPTON'8 LlFE AND CURIOUS PROPHECIES. — VarioUS
have been the conjectures of mankind in this part of the world
concerning our famous prophetess. Some have reported her
father was a famous necromancer, and her mother a witch, so
she had the Black Art by succession ; others, of a more exalted
turn, pretend that her mother, being left an orphan about the
age of sixteen, took a walk into the fields, and sitting down
upon a green bank, under a shade, to soothe her melancholy, &
Demon, in the shape of a handsome young man, appeared before
her, and enquired the cause of her distress ; she answered him
her parents and friends were dead, and she despaired of a live-
lihood, upon which, under a pretence of being a person of figure
and fortune, he gave her to understand, if she would comply
with his desires, he would preserve her above the reach of want
as long as she lived ; she readily consented, received him
into her apartment, and entertained him as a gallant ; in return,
he bid her sweep the floor once every day after his departure ;
she punctually observed his directions ; and nover failed finding
a quantity of ninepences, three pences, and other odd kind of
pieces sufficient for all her occasions. At length the embraces
of her infernal gallant produced a pregnancy, and at the time of
her delivery, such a terrible storm of thunder and lightning ap-
peared, that houses were beat down, trees shattered, and the
very features of the child were so warped and distorted, that it
appeared the very masterpiece of deformity.
But these, and many other reports of the like nature, are as
romantic as the fabulous intrigues of the Heathen Gods and
Goddesses. The genuine account is, she was born in July, 1488,
in the reign of King Henry 7th, near Enaresborough in the
County of York ; she was, like the rest of female infants, her
mother's daughter by a man ; and was baptized by the Abbott
of Beverley by the name of Ursula Sonthiel ; her stature was
larger than common, her body crooked, her face frightful, but
her understanding extraordinary. The vulgar relations of her
life and actions are equally extravagant with those of her birth
before-mentioned, but as those legends are so ridiculous and
trifling, the ingenious reader will excuse us if we pass 'em by,
and proceed to more probable and authentic information.
'Tis generally held by most of the first quality and best judg-
ment in the County, that she was a person of an ordinary
education, but great piety; and that she was supernaturally
endowed with an uncommon penetration into things, for which
she became so famous, in time, that great numbers of all ranks
and degrees resorted to her habitation to hear her wonderful
discoveries.
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We find nothing particularly remarkable of her until she ar-
rived at the age of twenty four years, when she was courted by
one Toby Shipton, a Builder, of Skiptan, a village situate four
miles north of the City of York, who soon after married her ;
and from this match she afterwards derived the name of Mother
Shipton. After her marriage her fame increased more than
ever ; the events proved the truth of her Predictions, and many
began to commit them to writing.
The first remarkable Prophecy recorded of her's is that upon
Cardinal WoUey ; the story runs as follows. . She was told the
Cardinal intended to remove his residence to York (that being
his Archbishoprick), upon which she publickly gave out "he
should never reach the city/1 This report coming to the Cardi-
nal's ear, he sent three gentlemen, or lords of his retinue to her
to enquire the truth of it, and to menace her if she persisted in
it. These three came disguised to a village, a mile west of the
eity, called Dring Houses, and leaving their horses they took a
From an old Mother Shipton Chap-book,
guide to direct them to her house ; upon their knocking at the
door 'tis said she called out from within, " Come in Mr. Beasly
(that being the name of the guide) and the three noble Lords
with you." This discovery very much surprised them; but
when they were enter'd she called each by his name, and pre*
sented 'em with cake and ale. They signified to her, if she knew
their errand she would hardly treat 'em so handsomely. " You
gave out," say they, " the Cardinal should never see York."
"No," she replies, "I said he might see it, but never come to it."
They return, " When he does come he'll certainly burn thee."
Then, taking her linen handkerchief off her head, " If this burn,"
says she, '< so shall I ;" and casting it into the fire before 'em,
she let it lie in the flames a quarter of an hour and taking it
out again it was not so much as singed ; which very much
astonished 'em. One of them asked her what she thought of
him; she answered " The time will come, my Lord, when you
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shall be as low as I am, and that is low indeed." This was
judged to be verified when Thomas Lord Cromwell was beheaded.
The Cardinal coming to C a wood, ascended the Castle Tower,
and taking a prospect of the city of York, at eight miles
distance, he vowed, when he came there he would burn the
Witch; but e'er he descended the stairs, a message arrived
from the King to demand his presence forthwith; so he was
obliged to return directly, and being taken with a violent loose-
ness at Leicester, he gave up the ghost in his journey, which
verified the prophecy.
Several others she delivered to different persons, one of
which was : —
"Before *Ouze-Bridge and Trinity Church meet, what is built
in the day shall fall in the night, till the highest stone in the
Church be the lowest stone of the Bridge."
This came to pass ; for the Steeple was blown down by a
tempest, and the Bridge broke down by a flood occasioned by
the storm ; and how it came to pass we can't learn, that what
they built in the day fell down in the night ; but 'tis generally
asserted it was so ; and it is certain that the top-stone of the
former Steeple is the foundation stone of that part of the
Bridge then rebuilt. The second of this kind runs thus: "Time
shall happen ; a ship shall sail upon the river Thames, till it
reach the city of London, the master shall weep and cry out,
Ah ! what a flourishing city was this when I left it, unequalled
through the world ! but now scarce a house is left to entertain
us with a Flaggon." This was terribly verified when the city
was burnt, September, 1666, there being not one house left
from the Tower to the Temple.
We now come to the prophecies that occasioned this publi-
cation, and which appear far to exceed everything of the like
nature extant.
A copy of them was lately found amongst other valuable
manuscripts the property of a gentleman deceased, with this
title — " A copy of a collection of prophecies delivered to the
Abbot of Beverley, etc."
The greatest part of what has been hitherto published under
the title of " Mother Shipton's Prophecies," plainly appears to
be no more than imperfect bits and scraps of this collection,
carried away, perhaps, in the memory of such, as might some-
time have the opportunity of seeing it in the noble family where
it was deposited. The whole seems entirely to point at the
great events that already have happened and yet may happen
to both Church and State in this and the neighbouring nations.
Explanation of the different prophecies —
The first thirty verses seem to relate to the disasters thai
should befal great part of Europe, during the time of King
* A large stone Bridge over the River Ouse, within the city of York.
Y0RE8HIRE FOLK LORE. 35
Henry 8th, for the 29th and 80th verses terminate in his reign,
and are the last wherein that reign can be understood to be
hinted at.
Verse 29. — " And when the cow shall ride the bull."
This seems to have been fulfilled when Henry 8th married
Lady Anna Bullen ; for he, as Duke of Richmond, placed the
cow in his arms, and the crest of her family was a black bull's
head.
Verse 80. — " Then motley priest beware thy skull."
Presently after the king's marriage, the seizure of Abbey
Lands, etc., and the dissolution of monasteries ensued ; where-
by the skull or head-piece of the priesthood (i. e. gain) was
miserably broken.
Verse 81. — " For a sweet pious prince make room."
By this, doubtless, is meant King Edward VI., a part of
whose character is thus given by the learned Dean Echard, in
his History of England ; " He was truly just and merciful in
his disposition ; and took special care of the petitions that were
given him by the poor and oppressed. But his zeal for religion
crowned all .the rest; which did not proceed from an angry
heat, but from a real tenderness of conscience, founded on the
love of God, and his fellow creatures."
Verse 82. — "And for the *Kirk prepare a broom."
This alludes to the beginning of the reformation; when
many superstitions were swept out of the Church.
Verse 88. — " Alecto next shall seize the crown."
Alecto was one of the fabulous furies of the heathen ; whose
employment was to kindle war and distress mankind. She is
here placed for Queen Mary I., in whose reign, as alluded
to in the 84th verse, the blood of the glorious Protestant
Martyrs was plentifully shed in Smithfield.
Verses 85 & 86. — "A maiden Queen, full many a year,
Shall England's warlike scepter bear."
By these are meant Queen Elizabeth, who reigned 44 years,
4 months and 6 days, upon whom Andrew Marvel has left the
following lines : —
" The other day, said Spencer, I did bring,
In lofty notes Tudor's bless'd race to sing ;
How Spain's proud powers her Virgin Arms controulTd,
And golden days in peaceful order rolTd ;
How like ripe fruit, she dropp'd from off her throne,
Full of grey hairs, good deeds, and great renown."
Verses 87 & 88.—" The Western Monarch's Wooden Horses
shall be destroyed by a Drake's forces."
The Western Monarch is supposed to mean the King of
Spain, whose country lies on the west-side of the Continent,
and his Wooden Horses, his fleet of ships, or Armada,
# A North-country word for Church
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vanquished by the brave Admiral Drake and the rest of the
Queen's forces, in the year 1588.
Verses 89 & 40. — " The Northern Lion over Tweed,
The Maiden Queen shall next succeed."
The Northern Lion ; i. e., King James I., born in Scotland.
A Lion is the principal figure in the British Arms; whence
the King, as the principal person in the realm, metaphorically
takes the name.
Verses 41 & 42. — " And join in one, two mighty states,
Then shall Janus shut his gates."
The first bears an allusion to the uniting of the two Crowns
of England and Scotland in one, in the person of King James.
And the second points out the peaceful reign of that Monarch,
by shutting the gates of Janus ; who was one of the Hehthen
Gods, and the gates of whose temple were never shut but in
time of peace.
Verses 43 and 44 seem to hint at some great calamities that
should befall this nation before the deposition of Episcopacy, in
the reign of the Republican Anarchy, under the usurper Oliver
Cromwell.
Verses 46 & 46. — " False Ireland contrives our woe,
But zealous Scotland .doth not so."
Doubtless these intended the execrable massacre in Ireland
in the reign of King Charles I, and the loyalty of the Scotch in
not joining the Irish rebels but suffering with the English.
Verses 47, 48, 49 and 50—
" Bough Mars shall rage as he were *woo'd,
And earth shall dark'ned be with blood.
Then will be sacrificed, C
And not a King in England be."
This was verified in the time of the grand rebellion, and
most unnatural civil war, when the nation was torn and
pillag'd, the laws broken, the constitution overturned, the king
and monarchy most execrably slain together.
Verses 51, 52, 58 and 54—
" But death shall snatch the Wolf away,
Confusion shall give up the sway,
And fate to England shall restore
A King to reign as heretofore."
If we can guess right, the first of these verses alludes to the
death of the usurper Oliver Cromwell, who is very properly
depicted as a Wolf, and the other three to the restoration of
King Charles the Second.
Verses 55 <fe 56. — " Triumphant death rides London thro*,
And men on tops of houses go."
The first, in all appearance, points out the terrible plague
that raged in London, a.d. 1665. The second circumstantially
*Mnd.
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alludes to the fire in the year following ; signifying that people
should be obliged to run from one house to another, over the
tops of the houses, to save themselves, and all their effects.
Verse 57. — " J. R. shall into saddle slide."
J. B., t. «., James Bex, or King James 2nd, who ascended
the throne upon the death of King Charles II.
Verse 58. — " And furiously to Borne shall ride."
Scarcely was he seated Upon the throne before he went to Mass
publickly; and by pursuing imprudent and illegal measures,
was the cause of the verification of Verses 69 and 60 —
" The Pope shall have a fatal fall,
And never more distress Whitehall."
His mis-government led to his abdication, and his son-in-
law King William, and Queen Mary II, were placed upon his
throne.
Verse 61. — " A Queen shall knit both north and south."
This seems to refer to the union of England and Scotland in
the reign of Queen Anne.
Verse 62.— "And take away the Luce's tooth."
This likewise seems to relate to her extraordinary victories
over Lewis 14th, King of France ; who, we judge, is intended
here by the Luce, which by way of allusion, might here be put
for Fleur de luce ; the arms of that monarchy.
Verses 68 & 64. — " A Lion-Duce shall after reign
And of the whiskers clear the main.
What is meant by the Lion Duce may be matter of amuse-
ment to the curious ; but as the word Duce sometimes represents
the number two, so two in this ambiguous phrase may intend
the familiar word second ; and our present gracious sovereign*
being the second Lion (or English Monarch) of his name, it is
far from being unlikely that he may be the Prince here pointed
out who shall clear the main of the whiskers, which is a
northern term for mustachioes, and doubtless alludes to the
Spanish, whose fashion it has been for many centuries past to
wear them. But as this appears to relate to the present age,
we leave it to the skilful and ingenious.
Whether the prophecy of the Lilly be Mother Shipton's or
no, we can't certainly determine, but as it has been attributed
to her, and is writ in a peculiar sublimity of sense and style,
we think it would be very improper to omit it.
It runs as follows : A curious Prophecy. — The Lilly 6hall re-
main in a merry world; and he shall be moved against the
seed of the Lion ; and he shall stand on one side of his country
with a number of ships. Then shall come the son of man, having
a fierce Beast in his arms ; whose kingdom is the land of the
Moon, which is dreaded throughout the whole world. With a
* The explanation of the above verse was taken from an edition of Mother
Bhipton'g Prophecies printed in the reign of King George the Second.
88 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
number of people shall he pass many waters and shall come to
the Land of the Lion, looking for help of the Beast of his
country. And an eagle shall come out of the East, spread with
the Beams of the Son of Man, and shall destroy Castles of the
Thames ; and there shall be battles among many kingdoms :
that year shall be the bloody field, and Lilly, F. K. shall lose
his crown ; and therewith shall be crowned the son of man
K. W. and the fourth year shall be many battles for the
and the Son of Man with the Eagle shall be preferred, and
there shall be an universal peace over the whole world, and
there shall be plenty of fruits, and then shall he go to the
land of the cross.
- Whether the accomplishment of the above prophecy be past
or to come, we cannot ascertain. It appears to be very deep and
mysterious; we therefore leave it to persons of profounder
penetration and superior judgment.
We are informed, the last prediction of our famous prophetess
was concerning the time of her own death ; which 'tis said, she
declared to several who visited her in her advanced age ; and
when the time approached, she called her friends together,
advised them well, and took a solemn leave of them, and laying
herself down on her bed, she departed with much serenity,
a. d. 1651, being upwards of seventy years of age; after her
death a monument of stone was erected to her memory in
the high north-road betwixt the villages of Clifton and Shipton,
about a mile distant from the city of York. The monument
represents a woman upon her knees, with her hands closed
before her, in a praying posture, and stands there to be seen
to this day. I. B.
o
Bolling Hall and its Ghost. — For fully five hundred years
the storm-beaten walls of this fine old mansion have withstood
the ravages of time, and to day the ancient fabric is in a
wonderful state of good preservation, such as few of the monu-
ments of feudal times in Yorkshire can boast. The architecture
of the south part of the Hall may be taken as fairly represent-
ative of the different periods of its history. It would seem to
have been the work of at least four separate builders, the two
ancient wings taking us back to the time of the Boilings,
while the central portion, with its deeply embayed windows,
and large central window of three tiers, unmistakeably tells of
the Tudor period— when the Tempests came in— which brought
with it a more luxurious and domesticated order of things.
The modern mercantile period is but too faithfully written in
that piece of vandalism, the bay window next to the entrance
tower. Our copper-plate illustration,* which shows the south-
front of the hall, happily does not perpetuate this hideous
# Part 2.
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89
distortion. Of the very few historic relics of which Bradford
can boast, Boiling Hall is, next to the Parish Church, the
most interesting. It is a spot " familiar with forgotten years/'
and the history of " olden times " is written in its very walls.
The present owners have done everything to render it con-
venient and comfortable as a place of residence without
sacrificing its ancient aspect, and the hnll is bo leas fortunate
in its present occupant, Mr. James M. Tankard, who is proud
of the place, and sparea no pains in sustaining its ancient
character and reputation.
Boiling Hail,— NoUk View.
large central hall has been furnished by Mr. Tankard
with curious old oak furniture, which is in keeping with the
old oak balcony on the northern side of the room, and the
wainscotting and cornice, which are also of black oak.
This noble apartment possesses many features of attraction,
among which may be mentioned its fine central window looking
on to the lawn, its collection of ancient relic3 in the shape of
crossbows, pikes, helmets, mail-shirts, battle axes, and other
implements of warfare, and its portraits of warriors clad in
armour, ladies in Elizabethan costume, feudal lords and
titled gentry. Worthy of special mention among these are the
Srtraits of General Fairfax, Prince Rupert, Mary Queen of
sots, Sir Francis Gresham, and Sir Charles Lucas.
The view from the top of the old western tower amply repays
thS scramble up its narrow, winding staircase. Here is
abundant scope for drawing pretty largely upon one's imagin-
ation, and painting no end of fancy pictures. History tells us
of a far-off time when Boiling Hall was surrounded by a wall
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and a moat for purposes of defence, when men loved the
dangers and excitements of war rather than the refining in-
fluences of peace and civilization. It also tells of a more
recent period, when it was encompassed by an extensive park,
well wooded and stocked with deer. The wall, the moat and
the deer have long since disappeared, but a portion of the
park has been recently restored, and set apart for the benefit
of a toiling, industrious population, who resort hither in
search of that " breath of unadulterated air " which they can-
not find in the streets and workshops where they spend their
lives.
It does not fall within the scope of the present sketch to
trace the history of Boiling Hall. Indeed, this has been
already done, (though not so fully as we could wish,) by Mr.
James, in his History of Bradford. We are now only concerned
with the traditional, — the folk-lore association of this fine old
mansion, and fortunately it is not lacking in this respect. It
has its ghost story, as a house of such antiquity and import-
ance ought to have. Thanks to that best of local chroniclers,
Joseph Lister, we can tell the tale of it with all the gravity
and mystery which every good ghost story demands.
It was after the battle on Adwalton moor, at which the
Roundheads had met with a sad defeat, that the Earl of New-
castle, the Royalist Commander, turned his face towards
Bradford, and taking up his quarters at Boiling Hall, began
what is known as the second siege of Bradford. The command-
ing position of this spot doubtless attracted the military eye of
the Earl, and from this standpoint he at once set about invest-
ing the town. He took three or five days in doing this,
although there were no batteries to raise, as the hills surround-
ing Bradford were near enough to render such unnecessary.
He placed his guns in two positions, and opened a heavy fire
which was returned by Sir Thomas Fairfax, who was defending
the town, with volleys of musketry. But this time the odds
were sadly against the Bradfordians, brave fighting men though
they were. Reduced to the extremity of possessing only one
barrel of powder, but no match, Sir Thomas saw that he must
either cut his way through the Royalists, or surrender with the
town. He adopted the former course, and by this step all hope
of saving Bradford from falling into the hands of the enemy
was abandoned.
41 Oh ! what a night and morning was that in which Bradford
was taken," says Joseph Lister, " what weeping and wringing
of hands — none expecting to live any longer than till the
enemy came into the town; the Earl of Newcastle having
charged his men to kill all, man, woman and child, in the
town, and to give them all Bradford quarter, for the brave
Earl of Newport's sake, (who was said to have been barbarously
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41
slain here daring the first siege.) However, God so ordered it,
that before the town was taken, the Earl gave a different order,
viz — " that quarter should be given to all the townsmen."
And then the
narrative goes on
to tell how it
came about that
the Earl had so
suddenly changed
his mind. While
he was sleeping in
one of the rooms
of the hall, (known
as "the ghost
room'1 unto this
day,) on the eve
of the day that
was to witness the
destruction of the
town, a lady in
white appeared,
pulled the clothes
off his bed several
times, and cried
out with a lament-
able voice, " Pity
poor Bradford ! "
on which he sent
out his orders
that neither man,
woman, nor child,
should be killed in
the town, where-
upon the appa-
rition which had
so disturbed his
slumbers left him
and went away.
Of course, in
these days of
science, lectures,
and Board Schools, a story like this has not the ghost of a
chance of gaining credence, hence some will have it that in the
carousals of the soldiers, in anticipation of the carnage that was
to take place on the following day, the wine had flowed a little
too freely, and that the Earl, in a restless, broken sleep had
conjured up some weird, unearthly shape in his dreams, which
in a superstitious age, would readily be taken as some spectre
Facsimile of an old print.
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from the spirit land.* Others again, have gone the length of
regarding it as the clever performance of some brave Bradford
lass, who, afraid lest anything should happen her relatives, or
perhaps her lover, boldly assumed this ghostly guise in order
to frighten the Earl from his cruel purpose. For ourselves, we
prefer to take the legend simply on its merits, and without
offering any apology for it whatever. It is enough to know
that the Earl gave final orders that the good people of Bradford
should be spared, and that he speedily withdrew his troops from
the town, to the no small joy and relief of many who were
quaking with fear, believing that, verily, they were in the jaws
of death.
I have recently come across the following verses and quote
them in full, not for any poetic excellence they possess, but
because they relate to the subject of my contribution. I should
like to know when and by whom they were written ? They are
entitled —
The Earl of Newcastle's Vision.
The shades of night began to fall,
Enveloping with sable pall,
The precincts of Old Boiling Hall
Where proud Newcastle lay.
His angry eye, and brow of gloom,
Told plainly of poor Bradford's doom,
As he passed to his lonely room
To wait the coming day.
A day that should to sword and fire
Give that fine town ; both son and sire,
He vow'd should midst the flame expire
For arming against their King.
His plumed helm a table graced,
His trusty sword was near him placed,
The cuirass that his bosom braced
Upon the floor was flung.
Then on the couch he threw him down,
His thoughts were on tbat doomed town
And on his dearly-bought renown,
When Fairfax lost the day.
A day that saw, 'midst seas of gore,
The Royal standard proudly soar
Triumphant on Adwalton Moor —
That long-contested field.
•Was it the vanishing female portrait, still dimly traceable on a panel
over the fireplace. — Ed.
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The night was still, serene and clear,
He dreams, or surely does he hear —
When soft, a yoice, low whispering near,
Said, " Pity poor Bradford."
Upstarting with a sudden bound,
He oast a sudden glance around,
And with astonishment he found
A female near him stand.
Mournful she seem'd, tho' young and fair ;
She clasp'd her hands as if in prayer,
And, sighing, said, " In pity spare
Our poor, devoted town."
Newcastle was as brave a knight
As e'er spurred charger into fight ;
But who can say that solemn night
He was devoid of fear ?
The ranks of war he oft had led —
Had seen the field with slaughter spread,
Yet never felt he so much dread,
As at that lonely hour.
To call for aid he vainly tries,
His tongue its wonted use denies,
And when again he raised his eyes,
The visitant had fled.
And whither fled, no one could say,
The guards had watch'd till dawn of day,
But no one ever crossed their way,
They all and each declared.
But changed was Newcastle's vow,
The gloom had vanished from his brow,
He spoke in mercy's accents now
" Let Bradford town be spared."
W.S.
Folk-Lobe. — The following superstitions still linger in York-
shire, and may elicit from the readers of " Notes and Queries"
additional information on the subject. To turn away the first
*' vessel-cup" singer without reward, is to forfeit the good
fock of the ensuing year. Query — Is the word " vessel " a
corruption of wassail ?
A niece of the yule-log is preserved until the following Christ-
mas by each prudent housewife, to secure the house from fire
doting the year. Query — What i6 the origin of this superstition?
44 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
The yule-candle must on no account be snuffed after being
lighted, and it is accounted very unlucky to cut into the cheese
before supper on Christmas-eve. Query — Why ?
No person must presume to go out of doors, or even to open
it, until the threshold has been consecrated by the entrance of
the lucky bird of New Year's day. Query — What is the origin
of the superstition respecting the complexion* of the first visitor
on New Year's morning ?
Those who have not the common materials for making a fire,
on New Year's Day, generally sit without one, for none of their
neighbours, although hospitable at other times, will allow them
to light a candle at their fires ; nay not even to throw out the
ashes, or sweep out the dust ! If they do, it is said that one of
the family will die within the year. Query — Can any reader of
" Notes and Queries " supply any additional information con-
cerning this strange superstition ?
The first new moon in the year is looked upon by the fair
sex with great adoration. Query— Why ?
On Easter Sunday, in Yorkshire, females are seized by boys
and young men, who take off their shoes, which have to be
redeemed by money. On the following Monday afternoon and
Tuesday morning females snatch off the youths' caps, which
have to be redeemed in like manner. Query — Do these customs
prevail elsewhere, or any modification of them ?
" Poor Robin's Almanac " for 1760, contains the following:
" The first of April some do say,
Is set apart for All-Fool's day ;
But why the people call it so,
Nor I, nor they themselves do know."
Query — Can anyone, better informed than " Poor Robin," supply
the readers of " Notes and Queries " with an answer to the
above poetical query ?
The following lines respecting the tradition of St. SwithhVfl
Day, is supposed to be a Yorkshire production :
44 Better it is to rise betime,
And to make hay while sun doth shine,
Than to believe in tales or lies
Which idle monks or friars devise."
Query — Author wanted.
For a wedding party to be in Church when the clock strikes,
is said to be a sure sign that either the bride or bridegroom will
not long survive. Query — Are there any authentic coincidences
on record ?
Friday weddings, births, and baptisms are considered very
unlucky. Query — Why ? J. L. Saywell, f.b.hist.s., f.s.sc.
* A red-haired boy is absolutely feared by many people as their 4 first foot,'
and a black-haired boy is frequently bespoken to ( let Christmas and New
Year in.' Can we trace antipathy to Scandinavian Nationality in this.— £4*
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 45
Fair Ikogsne. — " A warrior so bold and a virgin so bright,"
is from a ballad by Matthew Gregory Lewis (Monk Lewis), and
will be found probably in his "Wonderful Tales," or his "Tales
of Terror." J.H.L
'• Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene " will be found in
"Tales of Wonder," by M. G. Lewis, Esq., author of "The
Monk," 8 vols., 12mo., Vienna, 1806. W.C.
I have it in an excellent selection called "The Poetical Com-
mon Place Book" ; Edinburgh, John Anderson, 1822. C.A.H.
Fire Wobship. — Sometime about the year 1860, when I lived
in Bradford, there came to lodge with me and my wife, a young
woman who had been born and brought up at Cowling Head,.
(Cowen Heead) near Skipton. Her purpose in coming was to
learn to weave in the factory. Whenever either I or my wife
meddled with the fire, to mend it, or blow it with the bellows,
she seemed horrified, and would flee to the back of the house.
She would tell us that it was a great sin to blow the fire, or to
touch it, by stirring. Was this a relic of Fire worship, or
some kind of superstition. Stobbs.
The Bretton Hall Ballad, was printed first about fifty years
ago, and the original broadsheet bears on it, at the bottom,
"James Watts, Printer, etc., Heckmondwike." He was the
father of Mr. J. S. Watts, Postmaster of Shipley. Stobbs.
Mr. John Wood, of Penistone, has published an edition. Ed.
Gborge Daniel, of Beswick. — I should be glad to know how
or where I can find a poem by George Daniel, of Beswick,
entitled "A Vindication of Poetry." I have what I believe to be
the first verse of the poem, which begins thus, —
" Truth speaks of old the power of Poesie ;
Amphion, Orpheus stones and trees could move ;
Men first by verse were taught Civilitie ;
'Tis known and granted ; etc.
I think there is mention of it in the Rev. Joseph Hunter's
Works, but I have not access to them. Stobbs.
Woodbome Hall Ghost. — The story, as given by the late
Mr. Nowell to Mr. Hobkirk, will be found in the «' Annals of
Almondbury," p. 184. The Bev. Thomas Lees is able to give
a good account of it. C.A.H.
Hop-Scotch. — No mention is made of this form of the Prison-
Bars game, p. 22. It is like Short Scotch, but a much rougher
game, for the combatants can hop out when they please, and,
with folded arms, knock down any of the opposite set.
Girls have a game called hop-scotch, in which they hop over
the joints, or nicks, of flagstones, kicking before them a small
stone, or potsherd (spotscar, they pronounce it,) one flag at a
time. E.B.
46 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE.
Bbistol, a Game. — Bristol is a very interesting game, and
not only keeps us warm in cold weather, bat teaches us activity.
Why it is called Bristol, I do not know. We call out " first,"
"secky," "third," "fourth," &c, and then foot in the same
order. The first and second foot, that is, stand a dozen yards
apart and each puts one foot before his other until they meet,
and the one whose foot is beneath the other's toe is down. He
foots next with number three, and the loser foots again with
number four, and so on until all have footed. The last loser
goes between two dens, and the rest run backwards and forwards
past him, shouting, Bristol ! He catches first one and then
another, his prisoners helping him, until all are caught. The
first he caught has then to start the game again by taking his
place in the middle. E.B.
— — o
Lake Seemebwateb. — A Legend of Wensleydalb.
Green grows the fern on Fleetmoss Wold,
And brown the mantling heather,
The harebells blue and furze-bloom gold
Blend sweetly there together,
And Nature spreads with flowery pride
The robes which Peace has brought her,
Where Bain's untroubled wavelets glide
Down to Lake Seemerwater.
The breeze through ash and birchen bowers
Blows soft when day is closing,
And rocks the lily's waxen flowers
Upon the tide reposing.
Gay with the blackbird's echoing tones
And calm'd by dusk of even,
The twilight star looks down and owns
'Tie almost fair as Heaven.
Yet legends say the peaceful scene
Is but of late creation, —
That erst these grassy glades have been
A waste and desolation ;
They tell how once a busy town
Stood where these waves are flowing,
The Btreets are hidden where far down
The lily roots are growing.
One day a poor and aged man
Passed through the thriving city,
And meekly ask'd of those he saw
_ For food and rest in pity ; *
* This inhospitable spirit seems to remain still, judging by the Editor'*
experience. Accompanied by two friends, he reached the village overlooking
the lake and enquired for food at three cottages unsuccessfully, and had to
cross to the other side before he came to the house of a Malcolm.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 47
Bat all so cold their hearts had grown
With cares and fashions splendid,
The homeless man pass'd on alone,
Faint, worn, and unbefriended.
Outside the town a cottage stood,
The house of shepherd Malcolm,
Who took him in and gave him food,
And rest, and warmth, and welcome.
Next morning, standing at the door,
He looked toward the city,
And raised his hand, and murmur' d o'er
The words of this strange ditty : —
" Seemerwater rise ! Seemerwater sink !
And bury the town all save the house
Where they gave me meat and drink ! "
And straightway then the water rose,
From out the brown earth gushing,
From where the river Bain now flows
Came heavy billows rushing,
And buried all the stately town,
And drown'd the helpless people ;
" Full fathoms five " the waters flowed
Above the great church steeple !
And still, when boating on the lake
When sunset clouds are glowing,
The roof and spires may yet be seen
Beneath the blue waves showing.
But on the shepherd's house, they say,
The old man left his blessing,
And so they prosper'd every day,
With flock and herds increasing.
Nor did it rest with them alone,
But reached to son and daughter,
Until the land was all their own
About Lake Seemerwater.
Can any reader of your very interesting Notes and Queries
tell me the name of the author of the above ? A.W.
Talismanic Cures. — With all our boasted progress in know-
ledge and enlightenment, we may yet come across some pitiable
examples of credulity and superstition, and that without going
into out-of-the-way corners, in search of the same. I was
recently acquainted with a man at Bradford, whom I had
always regarded as possessed of, at least, an ordinary share of
common sense. He was a tall, well built, and elderly person,
48 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
but was sadly tormented with rheumatism, often being obliged
to take to his bed before he could be " brought round" again.
I met him once after his immediate recovery from one of these
attacks, and he was in high spirits. On enquiring the cause of
his jubilant frame of mind, he told me that he had at length
discovered a cure for his rheumatism ; one that would rid him
of his old enemy " at once and for ever." Having assured him
of my sincere congratulations, I was surprised to see him pro-
duce from each of his trousers' pockets — a potato ! looking, from
their having been rubbed and handled so much, as if they had
been black-leaded. He said (and I am sure believed) that 60
long as he carried these in his pockets the rheumatism would
never again come near him. This was the secret of the poor
man's freedom from his tortures of rheumatism; this, the
philosopher's stone that gave him exemption from one of the
most grievous ills that " flesh is heir to."
I was so much struck by this instance of present-day super-
stition that I communicated the fact to the columns of a local
journal. Conceive my surprise when it called forth the following
reply from one of its readers : —
"Dear Sir — I have read with great interest the Article by
'W.S.' in your journal, but being unwilling that any native of
our loved county should be unjustly held up to ridicule, permit
me to say that I have known several instances in which persons
troubled with rheumatism have found relief and ultimate ex-
emption from its pains by carrying a potato in the trousers'
pocket. My own brother has carried one for years with benefit,
until it is now as hard as a stone, up to a short time ago. I,
like 'W.S.,' looked upon this proceeding as ( a pitiable example
of credulity and superstition," but now think there is * method
in this madness,' for I find that atropine, a homoeopathic
remedy for rheumatism, which has been hitherto obtained
from belladonna, is now extracted from the * eyes ' of potatoes,
which are cut out at a certain stage of their growth, and sub-
jected to a process which extracts the identical remedy whose
source has been previously belladonna. I have heard of people
who have taken the water in which potatoes have been well
boiled, and experienced relief from rheumatic pains. Yours, Ac,
M. M. 8.
The Editor's comment on the above curious correspondence
will perhaps form the most fitting conclusion to the present
communication —
44 Can any of my readers," he asks, "learned in matters
medical, throw more light, scientific light I mean, on this sub-
ject ? I have not the slightest doubt that as excellent curative
properties may exist in the potato as in the roots of other plants
more usually connected with the druggist's shop. But that the
mere carrying in one's pocket of a couple of tubers will impart
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 49
their medicinal virtues into tbe person who hugs them along
with him seems to me a very different matter. However the
subject is worth ventilating." W.S,
||0rh Jffiinsta: %tmn:
A Specimen of the Yorkshire Dialect as spoken in the North
Riding. [Such is the title of a pamphlet just published by Mr.
W. H. Allen, 18, Waterloo Place, London, and which Yorkshire
Bibliophiles will be anxious to secure. A peculiar mystery as
to the origin and authorship is shrouded in the Epistle Dedica-
tory, and we are informed in the same Epistle that the profits
will be given to a Yorkshire family needing help. It is said to
have been put in type fifty years ago, and "was probably
written at Nunnington Rectory.1 ' At the suggestion of a Lady,
and by leave of " the Great Unknown," we present our readers
with this tasty piece.]
Scene — Goodram Gate, York.
" Mike Dobson is standing still in the street leaning on his stick,
Bob Jackson, on horseback, rides quickly past him."
Mike. Hollo, Bob Jackson, owr'ta the plagues thee boon,b
Ganging at sike a pe'ace as that thruff 't toon. —
Stop mun, let's touch thee flesh,o— -what is tha blinnd,
Or wadthad wish te trot owr an o'ade frinnd ? —
There's nowther sense nor mense in sike a pe'ace,
It leaks as thoff thoo dossent show thee fe'ace ;
A gayish nag* that leaks, at thoo's asthrarde,
Ah's seer it diz, is't good te owt te rarde ?
Bob. The best that ivver put a fe'at on t' ro'ad,
And will be bet'ther, he's noot twe'a yeer o'ad.
Mike. Bood, what brings thee te York this tarme o't yeer,
Ah's seer it diz yan good te see ye heer ;
Hestha* browt owt to't market, owr's thee te'ame ?
Are all thee bairns quite fresh at yam, and t' de'ame ?
Ah sud ha1 thowt you'd all been thrang at t' farm
Mang t'hay and coorn, for this is't thrangest tarme.
GLOSSARY.
« Where b bound e shake hands d would you e old * have you.
* No dialogue strictly characteristic ever took place between Yorkshiremen,
the subject of which did not begin and end with " a hoss "—the present
therefore, in this respect at least, will be found correct.
T.F-L. E
50 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Bob. Wi' some foo'aks it may be, bood bairn, may hay
Hez all been stack'd* and theack'db this monny a day ;
And as t' wheat weant be ripe a fotnith yit,
And glooaring0 at it winnot mak it fit,
Ah've coom te York te weastd an hoor or se'a,-
Since ah had nowt partick'ler else te de'a ;
And man, for soom tarme past Ah've re' ally been
Just crazed te knaw aboot this " Minsther Screen"
T'newspapers used te talk of nothing else,
It mead mair noise thon yan o't Minsther bells,
And sea ah've coom'd te see what it be like,
Diz thoo knaw owt at all aboot it Mike.
Mike. Thoo mood ha' seerched all t' coontry sarde to see,
A chap at knaws yah hauf* as mich as me —
Put up thee hossf mun heer i't Minsther Yard,
And then we'll gang and hey a leak in sard.
Bob here gives his horse to Mr. Moss's hostler, with sundry
directions respecting the treatment of him, &c.
They then enter the Minster.
Bob. Bon ! its a strange gre'at pie 'ace, and dash it Mike,
It maks a chap feel desprit lahtle* like ;*
Ah' feels all iv a trimmle,h with the dre'ad
Lest ony bad thowt now, sud fill mah he'ad.
Bood, show us owr this Screen is te be foond,1
Is't summat up o't re'afj or doon o't groond ?k
Mike. Whah' sootha, lootha, leakstha,1 there it stands,
The bonniest wark ere me'ad by mottal hands ;
That thing all clairmedm wi lab tie dolls is 't screen,
Aboot which all this noise and wark hez been,
And if thoo'l whist a minnit mun or se'a,
Ah'l sean insenstha11 into t' yal te de'a.0
Thoo sees when Martin wiv his crackbrained tricks,
Set fire t' Minsther like a he'ap o' wicks,P
Fooaks* frev all pairts* o't coonthry vary se'an,
Clubbed bras8 te pay for reeting* it age'an ;
Se'a Ah, mang t' rest o't quality, put doon
(For iv'ry lahtle helps thoo knaws) a croon.
a Stacked b thatched c staring 4 spend • half * horse g little k tremble
1 found i roof * ground 1 60otha, lootha, leakstha ; see, look, behold — these
words are always used together, m Covered over n explain to you • t' yal to
de' a — the whole to do — the whole affair p quick grass, twitch, q folk * parts
■ clubbed brass — subscribed money t repairing.
* Sentiments of the deepest awe and veneration cannot fail to strike any
person, however otherwise insensible, on entering so sublime a structure as
York Minster, and it was no doubt as much with a view to excite such sensa-
tions, as in honour of the Deity, that such magnificent edifices hare been
erected.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 51
Noo se'an as t' brass was gotten, afore lang,
Prev iv'ry pairt a soort o' chaps did thrang :
Ste'an me'asins,* airchitecks, and sike like straight,
All clusthered roond like menniesb at a bait,
Boom te leak on and give advice, and Bob,
Ne'a doot soom on em com te latec a job. —
Bood when te leak thruff t' Minsther they began,
They started te finnd faut weet tiv' a man ;
This thing was ower big, that ower small,
While t'other had ne'a business there at all. —
If ivver thoo did tiv a cobler send,
A pair of sheund he did not mak, to mend,
Thoo's heerd what scoores o' fauts he vary seun,
Wad start to finnd oot wiv tha poor o'ad sheun ; —
" T' sowing wad be bad, and se'a wad t' mak,e
And t' leather goad te nowt at all bood crack."
Just se'a the'as chaps foond faut wi' ne'a pretense,
Bood just 'at ple'ace was noot belt' by theirsens ; —
Noo when they com to t' screen, it strake em blinnd,
For noot yah singel faut weet could they finnd,
Until yah cunning chap te show his teaste,
Threaped* oot like mad at it wur wrangly pleaced.
He said " it sud ha' been thrast fodtherh back,
For t' Ne'ave* leak ower lahtle it did mak,
And that it se'a confarned his view o' t' ple'ace,
Te let it bardJ wad be a sair disgre'ace."
Bob. Wha sike a feal as that sud nivver stop
Doon heer beloe, but gang and gloore fre' t' top ;
Ah mood as weel dingk mah back deer1 of t' creaks,™
And then tell t' wife at it confarned mah leaks ;
Mah wod ! she'd se'an confarn mah leaks for me,
Wiv what Ah weel sud merit, a black ee.n
Mike. " Yah feal maks mony," is a thing weel knawn,
And t' truth of it was heer me'ast truly shown ;
A soort o' chaps, at scarcely could desarn,
The dif rence twixt an oad chetch0 and a barn,*
Fre' t' coonthry sarde all roond aboot did thrang,
And aware it sud be shifted reet or wrang ;
Noo de'ant thoo think that Ah had nowt te say,
* stonemasons b minnows o seek a shoes « make * built g insisted
b farther i the nave i bide, remain * thrown off l door m hinges n eye
o church.
*A difference, by the way, not so very easily to be distinguished. — I
myself, with shame be it spoken 4 have seen many an antique church in
Yorkshire so like an old barn with a dove cote on the top by way of a steeple,
that it would hare puzzled my namesake himself to have discovered at a little
distance—" which was which." Printer** DeviL
52 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Bood just did let em hev their o'an fond way ;
Nay — hundhreds, bairn, of foo'aks agreed wi me
That stoored* it owt noot, and sud nivver be. —
Disputes and diffrences that had ne'a end
Began te start, friend quarrelled sean wi friend. —
Mair nonsence te'a, aboot it, bairn, was writ,
Than ivver hez been fairly read thruff yit ;
For mony a feal his help each way to lend,
Gease quills and fealscap we' as ted without end.
Meetings were held, men spak till they gat hoo'arse,
And barley- seagerb raise in price of coo' arse,
While soom foo'aks to their friends said se'a niich then,
Yah wod° togither they've noot spokken sen.d *
Bood tho' se'a despritly they talked and fowt,°
Ne'an o' theas meetings ivver come te owt :
At last they did resolve te call anoother,
Te settle t' queshun' at yah way or t'oother,
When efther beals and shouts, and claps and gre'ans,
Eneaf to wakken t' vary tonpike? ste'ans
The queshun to t' subscribers there was poot,
Whether it sud be shifted, or sud noot. —
We gat it, man, as se'af as se'af could be,
For ivry man o' sense did vo'at wi me ;
When lo ! t' o'ad chairman frev his pocket beuk
A lot o' vo'atsh lapt up in paper teuk,t
With which in spite of all at we could say,
He turned the queshun clean the t'oother way,
And thus desarded1 it sud shifted be,
Bood shifted t' nivver was, as thoo may see.
For perhaps they thowt in spite of all their wits
T* screen wad, if stoo'ared.J ha'tummeled* all te bits. —
Nea doot thoo knaws t* oad riddle of an egg,
I've knawn't sen Ah was boot V book1 o* my leg, —
• Stirred b sugar o word d since o fought * question g turnpike * votes
i decided J stirred k tumbled l bulk, size.
• To such a pitch was the discussion respecting the screen carried on in
York about this time, that nothing else was heard, spoken, or thought of.—
Footmen picking up scattered arguments in the dining room, debated together
furiously in the servants' hall ; while in the kitchen the cook, house maid,
and scullion, were all engaged in the dispute. At a dinner party, given by
Mr. G , a gentleman, who sat with his back to the fire, feeling rather
cold requested a servant, whose head was full of the argument, to "remove thf
screen "—meaning that one at the back of his chair — John started from his
reverie at once, and quite forgetting where he was, called out, ho would be
d— d if it should be stoored for any man.
f By " Voats lapt up in paper " — Mike means votes by proxy.— What a
great effect the speeches and arguments at any meeting must have upon those
who have given their votes by proxy three or four days before the meeting
takes place 1
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 58
Its " noompty doompty sat upon a wall,
" And hoompty doompty gat a desprit fall,
" And all t' king's bosses there, and all t' king's men,
" Could neer set hoompty doompty reet agen."
Se'a they consated* if they rarved this screen
Bood yance fre't ple'ace in which t' had awlus been,
Like hoompty doompty, it could neer age'an
Be set te reets let what pains wad be te'an. —
Bood there thoo sees it stands, yal and compleat,
And that's because theyv'e nivver de'an nowt weet :
A bonny thing like that, is bonny still,
Put it in whatsumivver ple'ace you will,
And as t' was weel while nowt was at it dea'n,
They've just de'an weel in letting weel ale'an.
Bood what did seam to me uncommon hard,
And vexed me se'a, Ah knew noot how te bard,b
Was that mah money, dash it, sud be te'an
Te de'a that with, Ah wished sud noot be de'an, —
Could Ah hev getten mah croon back, Ah sware
That egg or shell oa't they sud noot see mair.
Bob. Thah keasc joostd maks me think o' Jamie Broon,
T' oad dhrunken carpenther of our toon. —
Thoo sees yah day to Jamie's hoose0 Ah went,
And fand he'd getten t* bailiersf * in for rent,
His wife, poor thing, was awmeast flay'ds te de'ad,
And rarvedh off t' hair by neavesful1 frev her he'ad,
And tT bairns all roo'red te see their moother roore,
Ah niwer i my life seed sike a stoore. —
Oa'd Jamie he was set in t' ingle' neuk,
Glooaring at t' fire wiv a hauf fond leuk ;
Yah hand waz iv his britches pocket thrast,
While t'other picked his nooask end desprit fast ; t
For him thoo sees Ah cared'nt hauf a pin,
For drink had browt him te t' state he was in,
Bood mah heart warked1 te see t' poore bairns and t'
de'ame,
And se'a Ah moontedmt' meern and skelped0 off he'ame,
And there Ah teuk fahve? poond, pairt ov a hoo'ard,*
• Conceived b bear e case A just • house * bailiffs g frightened n rived,
tore i handsfol J fire side * nose l ached m mounted n mare o scampered
P fire q hoard.
* Bailiffs. — " The Sheriff being answerable for the misdemeanors of these
BaffiUs, they are usually bound in an obligation, with sureties, for the due
execution of their office, and thence are called bound bailiffs, which common
people have corrupted into a much more homely appellation." Blackitone's
Con. Book i. p. 345.
t The nose of an habitual drunkard (haud ignarus loquor) is always afflicted
with a tickling and tormenting heat — in fact that member seems constantly
itching to be in the flagon.
J
54 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Ah'd feltin t' babble* te be out o't ro'ardb *
(For All's yan o' thor chaps ats ommust se'af9
To spend all t' bras ats handy te my ne'af,)d
And sent it tiv him by our dowther6 Nance,
At he mood pay off t' bailiers at yance.f
Wad yon believe, as se'an as t' brass he gat,
He off te t' public boose, and there he sat,
And sat and smeuk'd,* and smeuk'd and drank away,
Fra two'alveh o'clock, te two'alve o'clock next day,
Just then Ah enthered t' hoose as Ah past by,
Te get a dhrink, for Ah was desprit dry,
And there Ah fand t' oad raggil1 te be seer,
Stritched on his back, dea'd dhrunk, o't palour fleer.—
Ah thrast mail hand intiv his pocket neuk,
And back agean mah fahve poond noo'ate Ah teuk,
For when Ah gav him't, it was mah intent,
That he sud de'a nowt weet bood pay his rent.
Just se'a, Ah think thoo had a reet to tak
T' croon thoo subscrarbed cud thoo ha* getten't back,
Since they te whom t' was geenJ had ne'a reet
Te de'a owt else, bood what t'was geen for, weet.
Mike. Thoo's reet, thoo's reet, Ah'd seaner had that croon,
Te we'ast in blash and dhrink like Jamie Broon,
Than they ha' getten't, for then mun at le'ast
Ah'd ple'ased mah oan, and not anoother's te'ast.
Bob. Pray whe'ah belt Minsther ? for it se'anis te me
He kenned far best ju6t whor this screen sud be,
What tho* theas chaps may talk a he'ap o' blaah,k
Ah wad'nt give a haup'ny1 for their trash,
Unless te pre'avem his joodgment good, some yan
Builds sike a spot as t' Minsther here, and than,
And noot till than thoo sees a body may
Be called upon te heed what he may say.
Mike. And noo Ah thinks Ah've telled thee all Ah' ken,
And mead thee just as wise mun as my sen,
Se'a coom thoo yamn wi me and see t' oad lass,
And get a bite o' summut and a glass,
For Ah'se se'a hungered tonned° Ah scarce can barde,
Ah've getten quite a wemlingy in t' insarde.
• Bible * road « sure d hand • daughter t once g smoked b twebe
i rascal J given * trash l halfpenny m prove a home ° turned pyearniag.
* Country folks hide their money in strange places— old jars, bottles, bed-
steads, and tea-pots have occasionally been the emporia of hidden treason) —
By Bob having hid his money in the bible to be out of the road, we «*J
without much hesitation imply, that that worthy character did not often make
the sacred volnme the subject of his perusal. Sir Walter Scott makes one of
bis characters hide bank notes in a bible, under the impression thai it ww
the most unlikely place for a thief to pry into.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 66
Bob. Ah've ne'a objection, boon afore Ah wag
A single leg, Ah's tied* te see mah nag.
Mike. Thoo need'nt man, in Moss's yard hes seaf
All's warrant, he'll get hay and coorn eneaf,
His is'nt t' inn where rogueish hostlers che'at,*
And grease 't boss' mouths te set 'em past their me'at,
Nay, Moss's man will tak mair tentb o' t' be'ast,
Than ony moother of her bairn awme'ast.
Bob. Nea doot, neat doot he'll tent it well, bood bon,°
Ah mood as well just see how he gets on,
He may ha' slipped his neither4 wiv a tug,
Or getten yah leg owr 't te scrat his lug.f
Mike. Aweel, leak sharp, and dean't be owr lang,
Or yam bedoot8 thee Ah'se be foorced te gang.
Bob. Yah minnit for me, bairn, thoo need'nt stop,
For Ah'll be back in t' cracking ov a lop.* J
» Obliged b care ° burn d halter e without * flea.
^ * A knavish hostler, in the presence of an inexperienced traveller, will give
his horse a very large feed of oats, and as soon as the gentleman's back is
turned he will subtract from the manger all the corn but a few handfuls,
and then grease the horse's teeth with a candle which will effectually prevent
the animal, for some time at least, from touching his food. — When the
traveller returns and sees some oats still remaining in the manger, he liberally
rewards the hostler for giving his horse more than he can eat ! Printer'* Devil.
t Many a horse has got a leg over the halter in scratching his ears with
the hind hoof, and hath thus hung himself. An ingenious farrier named
Snowden, near Kirbymoorside has invented a very clever halter to prevent
Eoch accidents.
{ Reader ! didst thou ever behold thy dog Tray, suddenly starting from a
pound nap on thy hearth rug, curl himself up and begin to sniff and snap
through his hide from head to tail, if so, thou hast seen " the cracking of a
lop."
c— —
YORKSHIRE CENTENARIANS.
The writer of this article has recently heard it gravely
asserted, more than once, that the term of human life has
reached its climax of brevity, and is now gradually widening
out the nearer we approach the Millennium. And indeed,
there would seem to be some degree of truth in the statement,
for we can scarcely take up a newspaper which does not record
the death of a centenarian. Of course the increase of popu-
lation would produce a relative increase in the number of
centenarians, but putting that on one side, why should it seem
a thing incredible, or inconsistent with the laws of nature, that
human vitality should have its ebb and flow, and that human
degeneracy having reached its furthermost point of retro-
gression, should now advance towards that point of longevity
attained by the patriarchs ?
56 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
A Yorkshire clergyman has expressed his opinion, that in
every million of our countrymen, there are at least two living,
who have passed their hundredth year. It was Professor
Hufeland's opinion that the limit of possible human life might
be set at 200 years, and this on the general principle that the
life of a creature is eight times the years of its period of growth.
The Professor backs up his opinion, by several authentic
instances, and his roll of centenarians includes many remark-
able cases of human and animal longevity. An able article on
centenarianism appeared in the " Daily Telegraph" of February
12th ult., in which Mr. W. J. Thoms, the author of the cele-
brated brochure, entitled " Human Longsvity: its Fads and
Fictions? (1878) is somewhat severely handled, and his incre-
dulity proved to be nescience. Sir George Cornewall, Lewis
is another sceptic, and boldly affirms all cases of centenarianism
to be hypothetical, and for the most part antediluvian. The
writer of the article in question, vigorously attacks the casuistry
of Mr. Thorn 8, and Sir George, and quotes M. Kohl on "Russian
Longevity " to support the theory of contingent duration.
The following list of Yorkshire Centenarians, verified in each
instance from the registers of their respective parishes, will be
of interest to the readers of " Yorkshire Notes and Queries," some
of whom will be able to extend the list. —
Henry Jenkins, of Ellerton-on-Swale, born 1501, ) 1AQ
died 1670.* Aged J l™
Elizabeth Gkay, a pensioner on the Wilsons of West- ) -M
brook, buried at Ecclesall, December 8, 1848. J
Ann Stringer of Northallerton, born 1618, died 1721. 108
George Lumley, of Northallerton, born 1697, married
1788 to Mary Dunning, aged 19; (Date of
death unknown.)!
Mary Hollindrake, born at Alderscholes, near Brad-]
ford, January 5th, 1785, died at Shipley, March - 101
20th, 1886. j
Denis Sykes, born February 10th, 1717, died
November 20th, 1819. {
i
104
102
* Buried in the Parish Church of Bolton-on-Swale. The parish register
contains the following entry—" 1670, December 9th, Henry Jenkins, a very
aged and poore man, of EUerton, was burred here." Besides the stone monu-
ment over his grave in the churchyard, there is another of black marble inside
the Church, erected to the memory of the " oldest Yorkahireman." Both
monuments boar an appropriate inscription, the latter written by Dr. Thomas
Chapman.
f Vide " Gentleman's Magazine." The Wedding was performed by the
Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Curate, and the witnesses were Thomas Robeon, and
W. M. Gibson.
} Mary Sykes, sister of Denis Sykes, died February 11th, 1810, aged 99
years, and 8 months.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 57
105
Ann Ykardley, wife of Joseph, of Sheffield Park/
died December 25th, 1807. Buried in Tankers- •
ley Churchyard, aged
(Thomas, their son, died Jan. 22, 1841, aged 91.)
William Sturdy, of Romanby, near Northallerton,
born 1785, died 1885.
Elizabeth Bulmer, of West Acklam, died June 20th,
1884. Buried at Acklam.
Barbara Bbownbridoe, buried in Eastrington church-
yard, January 16th, 1885.
Mary Wilson, of Glaisdale, buried at Glaisdale,
December 29th, 1880.
Jane Garbutt, buried at Welbury, December 12, 1854. 109
Mary Benton, of Yarm, buried at Elton, January 7,) +*»
1858. )
Matthew Law, buried at Sandhutton, nearThirsk,i lnn
Nov. 14, 1814, aged I 1UU
According to statistics, more females reach the age of a
hundred years than males, and no one I think will doubt it.
J. L. Saywell, f.r.h.s.
100
100
100
100
We have before us an ordinary black-edged funeral card,
bearing the following inscription :
" Death of a Matriarch.
Elizabeth, the wife of the late Ely Whiteley,
of Ri8hworth,
Who died on the 8th of May, 1852, aged 100 years.
She had had 18 children, 119 grandchildren, 189 great-grand
children, and 28 great-great-grandchildren ; total, 849. Six of
her children were at her funeral, of whom the eldest is 79 years
of age, the next 77, and the third 75.
She married at 21, was a wife 70 years, and a widow 9."
Mrs. Neale, of Bawtry, died on September 12th, 1885, aged
100. An old East Anglian ex-soldier, named Coe, who had
carried a bullet in his arm for many years, died last year at
Norristhorpe, near Heckmondwike, the residence, of his daughter.
He had nearly completed his 101st year when we saw and had
a pleasant chat with him, some weeks before his death. — Ed.
HENRY JENKINS.
In the York$hira Gazette a series of articles on Bolton-on-Swale
is appearing, from which we cull the following, by leave of the
Editor.
" We now come to a tablet which to the general reader will
possess more interest than any other in the church. This is
the slab of black marble which commemorates the existence of
the man who probably lived more years than any Englishman
56 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
of whom there is any certain record. This was the celebrated
Henry Jenkins, who undoubtedly lived to the extraordinary age
of 169 years. The inscription runs as follows : —
" Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory of
Henry Jenkins, a person obscure in birth, but of a life truly
memorable, for he was enriched with the goods of nature
if not of fortune, and happy in the duration if not the
variety of his enjoyments : And though the partial world
despised and disregarded his low and humble state, the
equal eye of Providence beheld and blessed it with a patri-
arch's health and length of days, to teach mistaken man
these blessiugs are entailed on temperance, a life of labour,
and a mind at ease. He lived to the amazing age of 169 ;
was interred here December 6, 1670 ; and had this justice
done to his memory. 1748."
There is also in the churchyard a monument to the memory
of Jenkins, consisting of an obelisk of squared freestone 11 feet
high, standing upon a pedestal 4 feet 6 inches in height and 4
feet 4 inches square. On the east side of the pedestal is the
following inscription : —
41 This monument was erected by contribution in ye year 1743
to ye memory of Henry Jenkins."
On the west side also are cut the name and age of the
patriarch.
Few things are more interesting than the investigation of
such a case as this, for so closely does the question of life and
death touch us all that we are to a man more or less attracted
by the abnormal strangeness of a life prolonged so enormously
beyond the usual allotted space. The late vicar of Bolton, the
Bev. A. Cumby, was at great pains to collect and arrange the
evidence bearing upon the case, and he seems to have exhausted
every possible source of information.
The principal evidences that prove or corroborate the age as-
signed to Henry Jenkins by the inscription on his monument
and by common report are given in various publications, and
most completely in Clarkson's History of Richmond ; but no-
where is a sufficient distinction drawn between those which
seem to be merely traditional and those which rest on better
authority. In these notes the credibility of the witnesses and
the possibility of the fact which they assert are examined : —
I. In Clarkson's History of Richmond (note p. 396) we are
told of " A Commission out of the Court of Exchequer, dated
12 Feby. 19 Charles II., authorising George Wright, Joseph
Chapman, John Burnett, and Richard Faucett, gents., to ex-
amine witnesses as well on the part of the plaintiff as defendant
in a tythe cause between Charles Anthony, vicar of Catterick,
complainant, and Calvert Smithson, owner and occupier of
lands in Kipling, in the parish of Catterick ;
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 69
Depositions taken in the house of John Stairman, at Catterick,
co. Ebor : on the 15th April, 1667 :—
Henry Jenkins, of Ellerton-upon-Swale, labourer, aged 157,
or thereabouts, swore and examined, says, " that he has known
the parties seven years, that the tithes of lambs, calves, wool,
colts, chickens, goslings, pigs, apples, pears, plums, flax, hemp,
fruit, and multure of mills were paid in kind by one Mr.
Calvert,1 the owner of the lordship or manor of Kipling, to one
Mr. Thriscroft, above threescore years since the vicar of Catte-
rick, and were so paid in kind during the time of his the said
Mr. Thriscroft's continuance ; and after the tithes of Kipling
were paid in kind to one Richard Fawcett, deceased, for many
years together as vicar of Catterick; and that this deponent
never knew of any customary tithes paid by any of the owners
or occupiers of the lordship or manor of Kipling, or any other
of the towns or hamlets within the said parish of Catterick,
but all such particulars named in the interrogatories were ever
paid in kind to the vicar there for the* time being."
This document, Mr. Clarkson adds, was copied in Sept., 1819:
II. From the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society,2 (Abridgment, vol. iv., p. 92) :— " On the great age of
Henry Jenkins ; in a letter from Mrs. Anne Savile* to Dr.
Tancred Robinson, F.R.S.,4 with his remarks upon it. No.
221, p. 266.
" When I first came to live at Bolton it was told me that
there lived in that parish a man near 150 years old ; that he
had sworn as a witness in a cause at York to 120 years, which
the judge reproving him for, he said he was butler at that time
to Lord Conyers,6 and they told me that it was reported his
name was found in some old register of the Lord Conyers'
menial servants. Being one day in my sister's kitchen, Henry
1 Geo. Calvert, Esq., of Kiplin, was created Baron Baltimore of Baltimore,
in the county of Longford, a.d. 1624.
Henry Tbriscroft was vicar of Catterick from 1594 till 1G03, and Richard
Fancett from 1603 till 1660, when he was succeeded by Charles Anthony.
a In the year 1809 the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
from the year 1665 to 1800 were abridged and republished by Drs. Chas,
Hntton, Geo. Shaw, and Richard Pearson. We quote from the Abridgement.
3 John Savile, Esq., of Methley, a direct ancestor of John, first Earl of
Mexborough, had several daughters, among whom were Anne, the author of
this letter, and Elizabeth, wife of Leonard Wastell, Esq., of Bolton-on-Swale.
Both these ladies were residing with Mr. Wastell at the time of his death,
a.d. 1665, in which year the interview with Henry Jenkirs took place.
* Tancred, second son of Thomas Robinson, Esq., and own brother to Sir
William Robinson, Bart., (direct ancestor of Thomas, first Lord Grantham) ;
he was M.D. and F.R.8., and was knighted on his appointment as physician
to George I. A list of his works is given in Watts' Bjbliotheca Britannica,
They consist of seven papers published in the Transactions of the Royal
Society, and show that he was the friend of Ray and other distinguished
utaralists, and bad visited Italy for scientific purposes.
s Of Hornby Castle, ancestor to the Duke of Leeds.
60 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Jenkins coming in to beg an alms, I had a mind to examine
him. I told him that he was an old man who must soon expect
to give an account to God of all he did or said, and I desired
him to tell me very truly how old he was ; on which he paused
a little, and then said to the best of his remembrance he was
about 162 or 168. I asked him what kings he remembered ? he
said Henry VIII. I asked him what public thing he could
longest remember ? he said Flodden field. I asked whether the
king was there ? he said no, he was in France, and the Earl of
Surrey was general. I asked him how old he might be then ?
he said he believed between 10 or 12, "for," says he, "I was
sent to Northallerton with a horse- load of arrows, but they sent
a bigger boy from thence to the army with them." I thought
by these marks 1 might find something in histories, and looking
in an old chronicle I found that Flodden Field was about 152
years before, so that if he was 10 or 11 years old, ho must be
162 or 163, as he said when I examined him. I found that
bows and arrows were then used, and that the earl he named
was then general, and that King Henry VIII. was then at
Tournay,6 so that I don't know what to answer to the consis-
tencies of these things, for Henry Jenkins was a poor man, and
could neither write nor read. There were also four or five in
the same parish7 that were reputed all of them to be 100 years
old, or within 2 or 3 years of it, and they all said he was an
elderly man ever since they knew him, for he was born in
another parish and before any register was in churches as it is
said ; he told me he was butler to the Lord Conyers, and re-
membered the Abbot of Fountain's Abbey very well, who used
to drink a glass8 with his lord heartily, and that the dissolution
of the monasteries he said he well remembered.
"Ann Saytle."
"This Henry Jenkins died Dec. 8, 1670, at Ellerton-on-
Swale. The battle of Flodden Field was fought on the 9th of
Sept., 1513. Henry Jenkins was 12 years old when Flodden
6 Both Hollinshed and Hail repeatedly mention the siege of Tournay by
Henry VIII. as contemporary with the battle of Flodden ; it was probably
one or other of these historians whose chronicle Miss 8avile consulted.
7 During the interval between the year 1664 and 1684, the register of
burials at Bolton-on-Swale is carefully kept and in the handwriting of Chas.
Anthony, vicar of Catterick. He notices fifty-five persons as "aged" or
" ancient," and three as " very aged." Among these is •• 1670, Decern, 9.
Henry Jenkins, a very aged and poore man of EUerton." In the same year
fourteen others are noticed as " aged,"— the exact age is never given for about
a century afterwards. In 1668 Jenkins seems to have lost his wife, and these
two entries are the only ones where the name of Jenkins occurs in the Bolton
registers.
8 Jenkins might have used this very word, for drinking-glasses though
little used in England before the dissolution of monasteries, were common in
the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Bee Shakesp. 2nd part of E. Hen. IV.
Act II., 8c. 1.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 61
Field was fought, so that he lived 169 years. Old Parr lived
152 years. and 9 months, so that Henry Jenkins outlived him
by computation 16 years, and was the oldest man born on the
ruins of this po6t-diluvian world."9 %
" This Henry Jenkins, in the last century of his life, was a
fisherman, and used to wade in the streams. His diet was
coarse and sour, but towards the latter end of his days he
begged up and down. He has sworn in Chancery and other
courts to above 140 years' memory, and was often at the Assizes
at York, whither he generally went a-foot, and I have heard
some of the country gentlemen10 affirm that he frequently swam
in the rivers after he was past the age of 100 years.
IH. Miss Savile sent a copy of her statement to Sir Richard
Graham, of Norton Conyers ; a transcript of this was afterwards
given to Roger Gale, of Scruton,11 by Sir Reginald Graham,
with the following note from himself : —
" Sir, — I have sent you an account of Henry Jenkins as I
find it in my grandfather's Household Book — the time of his
death is mentioned under the letter as I have set it down ; it
seems not to have been the same hand ; he must have lived
some time after Mrs. Savile sent this account to Sir Richard ;
1 have heard13 Sir Richard was sheriff when Jenkins gave evi-
dence to six score years in a cause betwixt Mr. How18 and Mrs.
Wastell14 of Ellerton. The judge asked him how he got his
living ? he said ' by thatching houses and fishing/
I am, sir, your most humble servant,
Norton, 26 Aug., 1789-40. . R. Gbaham."
9 This sentence seems to be from the pen of Dr. Robinson, and it is difficult
to say what he means 1>y it ; the ages of the post-diluvian patriarch are given
infra.
10 At this time within three or four miles of Bolton, no less than eighty
hall-houses were occupied by their owners or by wealthy tenants, and at
greater distances in the same proportion ; among those latter we may mention
Scrnton, the residence of the most learned man of his day, Dr. Thomas Gale,
Dean of York, and Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge.
U A very learned antiquary, son of a Dean of York. He received this letter
in 1740, and the monuments at Bolton were erected in 1743 ; it is therefore
not improbable that he may have been a contributor towards them.
13 Sir Reginald has been misinformed. Richard, the first of the Yorkshire
branch of the Graham family was Sheriff for the first time in 1680, ten years
after Jenkins* death.
13 John Grubham Howe, Esq., brother to the first Viscount Howe ; he was
M.ft for Gloucestershire in the reigns of William and Mary, and also of
Qneen Anne, who made him a Privy Councillor ; he died in the year 1722,
and his Yorkshire estates, including the manor of Ellerton, were sold to Mr.
Chr. Crowe.
U Mrs. WastelTs husband died in 1671, the year after Jenkins' death ; but
she continued to reside at Ellerton for several (perhaps many) years, and was
perhaps better known as a widow, so that Sir Reginald calls her so, though
the suit must have been commenced in her husband's life-time. Her husband
was one of the Bolton family, and Ellerton Manor was a jointure house.
62 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Then follows a transcript of the letter already given, and
then the following postscript : —
44 This letter is without date, but appears to have been written
by Mrs. Bavell in the year 1661 or 1662 by what she says of
the time when she examined the old man compared with that
of Flodden Field, and was eight or nine years before he died,
for I found his burial in the register of Bolton Church thus —
4 December the 9th, 1670, Henry Jenkins, a very old poor man/
And was also showed his grave.15
B. Gbaham."
These papers were sent by Mr. Gale to Dr. Lyttleton, Bishop
of Carlisle, who, in the year 1766, read them before the Anti-
quarian Society, of which he was president. They are given by
Mr. Clarkson, Appendix No. XLV.
IV. Prideaux Connection, Book V., p. 278, of 8vo edition,
speaks of Parr, who lived to the age of 152, and Jenkinson to
that of 160. It is clear that, notwithstanding the misnomer,
Henry Jenkins is the person here intended. The possibility of
attaining such an age somewhat invalidates the Dean's argu-
ment respecting an important prophecy contained in the Book
of Daniel, and he meets the objection on other grounds, without
questioning the 169 years, which he regards as an admitted
fact. The book was published in 1715.
V. More than seventy years after Jenkins' death a subscrip-
tion was set on foot for the erection of a monument to his
memory in Bolton Church. We are unable to say who proposed
the subscription, what sum was raised, or who were the
subscribers.
The inscriptions on the tablet in the church and on the
monument in the churchyard we have already given.
VI. In the year 1752 Thomas Worlidge engraved a head of
Jenkins. It professes to be " taken from an original painting
done by Walker/' Robert Walker died in the year 1658. He
was painter to the Protector, and his pictures of him and his
generals are numerous and very valuable. Jenkins seems to
have been little known before the year 1660, and it might be
thought unlikely that he should have attracted the notice of a
great court painter ; but we have other proof of the existence
of a portrait of him. M. de Bomare, a distinguished French
naturlist, in his Dictionary of Natural History, vol. iv. p. 441
(Dictionnaire raissonne universel de THistoire Naturelle, pay M.
Valmont de Bomare, Paris, 8vo, 1764), mentions the great ago
of — 1st, Henry Jenkins, an Englishman, who died in 1670,
aged 169 years ; 2nd, John Bovin, born at Czatlova-Carants-
Bitcher, in the Bannat of Temeswar, who lived 172 years, and
15 Sir Reginald does not say in what year he visited Bolton Churchyard,
bat it was certainly prior to the year 1740 ; the tomb would therefore doubt-
less be erected on the Bpot previously known as Jenkins1 grave.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 68
his wife 164. They lived together 147 years, and at the time
of Rovin's death their grandson was 99 years old. Also, 8rd,
Peter Zorten, a peasant in the same district, who died in the
year 1724, at the age of 185 years. Fall length portraits of
these three centenarians are in the library of Prince Charles at
Brussels : So far M. de Bomare. Prince Charles of Lorraine,
brother to the Emperor Francis I., was governor of the Nether-
lands from 1745 to 1781 ; he was rich and a great favourite
with the Empress Maria Theresa, his sister-in-law ; after his
death in the year last named his library and pictures were sold
by auction. Worlidge's print is a mere head, and the Prince's
picture is said to have been full length ; but it appears at least
that a portrait of Jenkins did exist at the end of the last century.
VII. At the foot of the engraving is a copy of the inscription
on the monument in Bolton Church, together with a short
account of Jenkins, taken it would seem from Dr. Robinson's
publication, and adding that in the King's Remembrancer's
Office in the Exchequer is a record of a deposition made by
Jenkins in the year 1665, in a cause between Anthony Clark
and Sniirkson, taken at Kettering, in Yorkshire. This is per-
haps a mistaken account of the deposition already mentioned
as taken in 1667, at Catterick, in a cause between Charles
Anthony, Clerk, and Calvert Smithaon.
The records in the Queen's Remembrancer's Office have been
transferred elsewhere, and though search has been made in their
new repository we have not succeeded in finding either docu-
ment ; but that mentioned by Mr. Clarkson as copied in 1819
may obviously be relied on as being then in existence.
Records of the Assize Courts at York are said to be preserved
in London, but they merely give the cause tried and the decision
of the Court, without stating any particulars of the evidence or
the names of the witnesses.
There seems to be three distinct instances mentioned of
Jenkins giving evidence in a court of justice — (1) That mentioned
by Miss Savile, where he asserted that he had been Lord Con-
yew* butler 120 years before ; this may have taken place in
1655, when he was 146 years old ; the point in dispute according
to Mr. Clarkson was a right of way. (2) The deposition made
at Catterick in 166716 when he was 157 years old. (3) The trial
at York, where he was witness on the part of Mrs. Wastell, of
Ellerton, (see Sir Reginald Graham's letter).
It is of this last trial that Mr. Clarkson gives the account
that Mrs. WastelTs agent found at Ellerton a son and grandson
H Some of the printed accounts mentioned also a trial in the year 1667
between the vicar of Catterick and John and Peter Mawbank, in which
Jenkins deposed as a witness. Clarkson does not mention it. Two farmers
Peter and William Wawbank (i.e., Walbank) were living at Uckerby at that
time.
/
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64 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
of Henry Jenkins, both of whom were much more infirm in
memory and in body than the patriarch himself; but the
registers above cited make it probable that no one of the name
except Henry Jenkins and his wife was buried at Bolton 6ince
the year 1658, when those registers commence.
VIII. The law suits in which Jenkins1 depositions were ad-
mitted show that the Court thought he had no intention to
deceive, and that his assertion might be allowed as evidence of
ancient usage to the extent of eighty or a hundred years. The
principal evidence of the 169 years is Miss Savile's examination
and letters ; her integrity and judgment are beyond dispute ;
her account tells us what Jenkins' own assertion and belief
were, and the reasons he gave for them ; the letters with other
corroborative proofs establish the fact that Jenkins was fre-
quently talked to and questioned about his age, not by his own
poor neighbours only, but by well-informed persons able to
detect an anachronism or contradiction of known historical
facts.
Jenkins1 fame in his own neighbourhood would be kept up
and maintained by the paper read before the Royal Society ; that
society was then popular and fashionable, and Dr. Robinson, a
distinguished naturalist and court physician. The notice in
Prideaux' Connection sufficiently shows how extensively Jenkins
was credited at the beginning of the last century ; some of the
things told of him may be proved impossible or false, but this
does not invalidate the truth of what had already been com-
mitted to writing, while they certainly show that the main fact,
his great age, was very universally admitted.
The publication of Miss Savile's letters and the erection of
the monument in Bolton Church would be a sort of double test
and challenge to all who might be inclined to dispute the matter.
The gentlemen who remembered Jenkins could scarcely all of
them have been ignorant of Sir Tancred Bobinson's publication,
and would have contradicted it either publicly or privately had
they believed it false in any essential point ; yet the sons of
these men must have known and some of them contributed to
the monument erected in 1748. At that time the residents in
the parish seem to have been as numerous and respectable as
they had been seventy years before.17 The church registers
furnish no evidence either way; and if the assertion, "my
father knew and conversed with Jenkins and believed what he
said of himself," had been met by a counter assertion, " my
father, or uncle, had conversed with Jenkins, and gave no credit
to what he said," in this case the subscription for a monument
could never have succeeded — public opinion would have been
on the side of the doubters.
J 7 In the parish of Bolton were Chr. Crowe, Leonard Bower, and John
Wright, Esqa., and the Bev. John Noblo, Master of the Grammar School.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 65
The history of the portrait is not wholly satisfactory, and
does not bear directly on the question of Jenkins' age ; we have
seen that he attended the York Assizes in 1655 or earlier. A
great provincial metropolis where many distinguished Yorkshire
families had houses and resided a part of the year, might well
be visited by a portrait painter, and the remarkable face which
the engraving exhibits would be as likely to attract his notice.
Prince Charles would scarcely buy an inferior picture or an
imaginary portrait ; the facts certainly tend to show that belief
in Jenkins' great age was general and well founded. The en-
graving was published ten years after the erection of the
monument at the price of 2s. ; the publisher must have reckoned
upon a very extensive sale to make such a price remunerative.
The publication of the engraving may serve also to show that
the subscription for the monument ten years before was not
got up through the caprice or money of a single individual.
Had it been so, it would have been regarded either with indiffer-
ence or with ridicule; whereas we find the inscription published
in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1749, and ten years later
Scott, the great commentator on the Bible, seemed to think
that Jenkins and his monument had made Bolton famous. (See
Scott's life, p. 6.)
The evidences we have collected show clearly that those who
questioned Jenkins were satisfied of the truth of his statements,
that they were numerous and some of them well-informed per-
sons, of judgment and intelligence, able and willing to detect a
falsehood ; still the fact of his great age rests primarily on his
own assertion, nor under the circumstances could it easily have
rested on any other. But the improbability of his passing
successfully examinations to which he was subjected is on
several accounts very considerable. He had no access to any
written records, and the old chronicles, consulted by those who
questioned him, abound in minute particulars of time, place,
and persons, precisely the kind of things that would be likely
to remain in his memory if he really remembered them, and to
puzzle and confute him if he did not. We can fancy only two
ways which promise any chance of success in such an imposture
—either that he was somewhat younger, ten or fifteen years
perhaps, than he asserted himself to be, and that he told as of
himself things which as a boy he remembered hearing talked of;
or that he had been for several years the friend and associate
of some intelligent old man greatly his senior, and afterwards
told his friend's reminiscences as if they were his own and had
happened to himself. Let any person of education endeavour
on such data only and without the aid of books to arrange and
execute an imposture, and then let him imagine how far a
footman, or butler, unaccustomed to the study of history or
fiction would be likely to succeed in the same attempt.
T.F-L. p
66 Y0RK6SIRE FOLK-LORE.
The statements which the other old people of Ellerton and
Bolton made to Miss Savile respecting Jenkins would be little
to the purpose unless they had meant that he was an old man
when they were young, ie., about the year 1600, for they were
about 100 years of age in 1664, the time of which Miss Savik
speaks; they imply also that he had resided in or near the
parish of Bolton ever Bince they knew him ; if so he must have
told his stories about Flodden and the reign of Henry VIII.
from the year 1600 to 1664 without having been convicted of
falsehood.
We ought also to bear in mind that he lived during the
[Reformation and through the great Rebellion ; whichever party
he sympathised with, whether Popish or Protestant, Cavalier
or Roundhead, he would have the importance of religion and
the obligation of an oath strongly brought before him, and this
applies especially to his depositions as a witness in trials
respecting property."
o— —
Abkenoabthdale. — As an illustration of Christian names
derived from the Bible, allow me to mention that a few years
ago I married in the Church of this place a couple whose
Christian names were respectively Obadiah and Tabitha. Many
of our Christian names are, however, derived from medieval
and other sources, as Anthony, George, Edward, Robert,
Richard, William, Ambrose, Sylvester, Margaret, Catharine,
Ann, Vincent, Cuthbert, Leonard, Hugh, Lancelot. At the
present time "fancy" names, as the people here call them, seem
to be in favour ; thus one boy has been baptized among the
Wesleyans in the name of Oliver Cromwell, another Admiral.
With regard to the initials C. B., (p. 22,) the sign of the chief
inn in the dale, they stand for Charles Bathurst, Esq., who in
the 18th century had large share of the ownership of the Manor,
with its lead-mines. These mines were worked in the reign of
King John, if they were not, as is very probable, worked by the
Romans. J.T.
Striking thx Luck.— What was the nature of the custom of
dealers in horses striking the luck of the guinea when horses
were sold. My grandfather, Thomas Busby, native of Holme,
Yorkshire, bought a horse at a fair at some Common and struck
the luck of a guinea and lost it. The next year he bought
another horBe at the same place and was asked to strike the
luck of a guinea. He said, " No, this day twelve months ago,
I bought a horse at this very place, and struck the luck of a
guinea and lost it," the same time poking with his stick in the
ground he recovered the lost guinea.
M. T. Mobball, Matlock.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
67
INTRODUCTORY.
One of the most in-
teresting books in the
Annals of Scottish liter-
ature is Dean Ramsay's
''Reminiscences of
Scottish Life & Charac-
ter ," — a work chiefly
composed of anecdotes,
ho arranged as to throw
a flood of light
upon the vari-
ous phases of
Scottish charac-
ter, of which the
compiler treats.
A similar
work to thiB is
wanted on be-
half of York-
shire, a county
brimful of
humorous,
quaint and ec-
centric charac-
ter, and with
abundant ma-
terial scattered
here and there
in its folk-lore
and literature.
When the Rev. S. Baring-Gould first contemplated his work on
" Yorkshire Oddities," a friend of his assured him that he little
knew the gravity of the task he had undertaken, "for," said he,
"every other Yorkshireman you meet is a 'character'." The
work, however, was carried to a successful completion, and
although it only touches upon some curious and out-of-the-way
phases of Yorkshire Character, yet it remains an interesting
and valuable contribution to the subject.
This is more than can be said of Mrs. GaskelTs attempt (in
her " Life of Charlotte Bronte,") to paint the Yorkshireman as
he is supposed to exist in certain wild and isolated corners of
the broad county. The grim and uncivilised creature that she
has painted (based upon a few extravagant stories she has
68 YORKSHIKE FOLK-LOBE.
picked up) is no more the typical Yorkshireman of the moors
and mountains, than is the idiotic lampoon depicted upon the
London stage — the " John Chawbacon " sort of fellow that most
Cockneys believe him to be.
In giving some illustrations of Yorkshire Character by means
of Anecdote, in these pages, no attempt at classification or
arrangement, will be made. The compiler will simply confine
himself to incidents that come within his own knowledge and
for the truth of which he can in most instances vouch. Were
he to overstep the bounds of this restriction, the resources of
his portfolio of " Yorkshire Anecdote," might fill untold pages
of the Yorkshire Notes and Queries.
Some years ago there lived in Bradford two men, respectively
named Hirst and Lister, who were remarkable for their size and
build. To appear in the streets in open day was quite enough
to draw a small crowd about them.
They were once sent to London to give certain evidence
before a Committee of the House of Commons.
On their entering the room where the gentlemen sat, the
Chairman, struck by their portly appearance, and wishing to
crack a joke at their expense, asked if he might take them as
a fair sample of Yorkshiremen, "0, dear no I " replied Hirst
very coolly, "we are mere shrimps compared to some 'of 'em."
The hearty laughter that followed somewhat disconcerted the
Chairman, who felt that the joke was not all on his side.
I have heard my father, who came from near York, vouch for
the truth of the following story. —
Some years ago, when hanging for sheep stealing was in
vogue, a farmer who lived within a few miles of York, was
charged with having committed a crime of that sort and con-
demned to be hanged. On the day previous to his execution
his wife came to see him and, with an eye to the progress of
business matters at home, asked him where the beans were to
be sown in the coming spring. After a moment's reflection the
poor man exclaimed, " I really don't know, lass, sow 'em where
tha' likes, I never was so grieved in my life."
How delightfully innocent was the mistake made by an old
woman in Wensleydale, when entering a Church for the first
time in her life. Even then she somehow contrived to be late,
and the people were just rising to sing. Struck by this mark
of respect (as she took it) to her, she exclaimed, holding up her
hands, "Neay, neay, sit ye down agean; its nobbut Betty
Bates aat o' Swaledale ; sit deown, preya ! "
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 69
I have heard another story hailing from Wensleydale, of a
certain old lady, who, on hearing one of two benighted travellers
whom she had taken in for the night from stress of weather,
read aloud from his pocket Shakespeare, exclaimed " Ay, well,
it fair does one's heart gooid to hear t' Scripter read so nicely."
The Bradford and Wakefield Chronicle of October 15, 1825,
records a wonderful instance of fortitude in the case of a boy,
who was then working in the coal mines at Bowling, near
Bradford. The poor lad had the misfortune to have one of his
toes cut off by the fall of a large stone. He, however, managed
to stop the bleeding, and, wrapping up the toe in a bit of brown
paper, pursued his work till night. He then came down to
Bradford and applied to a Surgeon to have it set on again,
coolly producing it out of his waistcoat pocket where it had
been for nearly eight hours. Bravo, Son of Iron 1 Here was
Bowling metal of the genuine ring. W.S.
o
I was waiting at a junction near Leeds to day for a train,
when a working man amused the score of people that were
present by affirming that he knew a man with a wooden leg,
who was in the habit of poking the shod-end into the fire to
warm his toes, — the toes that he had lost some years before ;
and this not as a mere habit or sentiment but to quell the
'Imaging' in his thigh. Disrelishing the laugh that followed
this narration, our entertainer affirmed further that a woman
in their village had her foot amputated, and at certain seasons
felt the pangs of a horrid, old corn that was buried with her
lost member. He seemed not only to believe it himself, but to
gain credence with some of the rustics. On my expostulation,
he suited me by saying he would rather believe it than
experience it. * * *
Two Oxford scholars meeting on the road with a Yorkshire
ostler, they fell to bantering him, and told the fellow that they
would prove him to be either a horse or an ass. "Well,"
said the ostler, "and I can prove your saddle to be a mule."
"A mule," cried one of them; " how can that be?" "Because,"
said the ostler, "it is something between a horse and an ass."
* * *
The following appears in a Liberal newspaper of recent
date: Mr. Robert Leake, sen., of Pringle House, Normanton,
is dead. Weighing twenty-six stone, he was sketched in a
London illustrated journal as "a specimen of a Yorkshire Con-
servative," on the occasion of a Nostell Priory demonstration.
Tory though he was, he had grown fat on Free Trade bread.
* * *
70 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Jin (Bib Wousb anit its (Sfrast-
Paper Hall, Bradford.
Of the few remaining links connecting Bradford as a very
small market town in bygone times, with Bradford as a large
commercial metropolis as we see it to day, the on.ce stately old
mansion in Barkerend, known as the Paper Hall, is about the
last that is deserving of notice. But even this relic of " the
olden time " has been so hacked and beaten out of its former
shape and semblance, that it will cost but few pangs of regret
when it shall become necessary to remove it out of sight al-
together.
The few traces that remain of its original appearance suffice
to show that it has been one of Bradford's finest mansions. It
was one of several old houses of the Bradford Aristocracy that
once clustered around the Parish Church. The long streets of
cottages, and small huckster's shops that are now plentiful
enough in this locality, were never so much as dreamt of when
the Paper Hall was built. Green fields bordered both sides of
.the road, then the only highway to Leeds. In front of the hail
lay the glebe lands of the church, which after changing hands
a great many times, came into the possession of the late Mr.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 71
Peekover, on a portion of which he built the mansion known as
Eastbrook House.
The Paper Hall stood then, as it does now, with its retiring
oentre and its projecting wings to the east and west. The
only entrance to it was at the front, and a well-dressed flower
garden bloomed on each side of its main entrance. All around
it was a spacious Court-yard, with all the a4junots for a mansion
of such pretensions.
How the place came to be called the Paper Hall, or the pre-
cise year when it was erected, we do not know, but we do know
that it was built by William Bookes, of Boyds Hall, near
Halifax, who died on the 25th of October, 1661. From the
Bookes it came by purchase into the possession of the Bowers,
one of the oldest and most respectable of Bradford families.
The next stage in the history of the Paper Hall is as curious
as it is interesting. Towards the close of last century it was
occupied by Mr. James Garnett, and it was during the residence
here of that worthy soul that the first spinning machine in
Bradford was set up. Some years ago, an old overlooker named
John Hutton, formerly engaged in the factory of Mr. Wm.
Garnett, (grandson of the above named James) made the
following statement, — " I am seventy years of age. When about
ten years- old I went to school in Barkerend and remember
spinning machines being used in the Paper Hall by Mr. James
Garnett, who employed in the work ten or a dozen hands. The
machines (spinning mules) were turned by hand/'
Mr. Garnett resided in one portion of the hall, while he plied
his trade in the other portions of it. In the early struggles of
the Independent Church in Bradford, the engagement of a room
suitable for public worship was a matter of no little difficulty.
Until better provision could be made James Garnett generously
offered the use of one of the large rooms in the Paper Hall,
which was gladly accepted. Among those who then composed
the small Independent community in Bradford, were the
honoured names of James Garnett and Eleanor his wife, worthy
founders of a family which in more recent times has attained a
prominent position in the Worsted trade.
Even in the days of James Garnett, the Paper Hall could
boast of much of its ancient splendour. The good man took a
pride in making its fine old oak glitter with the bees' wax and
oil with which it was constantly rubbed. To day, alas I its
appearance is the very contrast of this, the hall has been put
to such "base uses," and has been so mutilated and defaced
that it is difficult to form a conception of what it was like in
bygone days. Such is its solidity however, that some portions
of the building seem to defy the ravages of time itself. In the
disturbed times of the Revolution, for the Paper Hall was com-
pleted during the Commonwealth, an Englishman's home had
72 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
literally to be his Castle ; hence the doors of the hall are so
constructed, being studded all over with nails, and provided
with huge draw-bars at the back* as to be capable of resisting
any attempt on the part of the enemy to intrude upon the
privacy of the owner. All the floors, both upper and lower,
are of solid old English black oak, and every beam and rafter
is of the same material, and so also are all the old mantel pieces
of the fire-grates. What was once the principal sitting-room is
panelled from the floor to the roof, the latter having a carved
black oak cornice all the way round.
And now having said so much about the old hall and its
former owners, it is time that we should speak of its ghost
Without this its traditional history would be quite incomplete.
We have not seen the ghost ourselves, but we have it on the
authority of the blacksmith, whose workshop is just behind the
hall, that it may be both seen and heard. " A pair of large
staring eyes, belonging to a face of * gashly ' aspect, may often
be seen looking out of the windows,'* says the smith, " and at
dead of night mysterious sounds are heard in the old staircase,
as of someone treading restlessly up and down," such sounds
betokening the use of a wooden leg, which is believed to be that
of a certain old admiral who was murdered here at some time
or other, and whose spirit refuses to be "laid," ad all good
spirits should. It is not quite clear, however, whether the face
that is seen at the window is that of the old admiral ; but the
smith " of large and sinewy hands," can swear to having dis-
tinctly heard the " dot and carry one " tread of his ghost in its
nightly perambulations. The thing is therefore beyond all
question. If any of our readers do not believe the story, we
have only to say that as the old Paper Hall is yet in existence,
and the blacksmith is still " swinging his heavy sledge, with
measured beat and slow," in his " stithy" behind, they are at
liberty to investigate the matter for themselves. They will find
the smith to be a chatty, communicative soul.
We must not forget to mention, (on the blacksmith's au-
thority) the existence of a subterranean passage leading from
the hall to the Parish Church, but for what purpose such a
means of intercommunication between these places was made
we cannot very clearly make out. The redoubtable smith how-
ever assured us that he has not only fathomed its depths, but
has even discovered a skeleton in it with a rusty sword at its
side, but whether it was the skeleton of a man or woman he is
not quite clear. He was much too frightened to make necessary
investigations on this point. W. Sobutoh.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 78
A Methodist Preacher at Skipton in Graven recently prayed:
" 0 Lord, at this critical juncture of events, be pleased to grant
that Mr. Gladstone and his supporters may hang together ; "
whereupon a well-known Tory exclaimed, "Amen! Amen!"
To remedy matters the minister continued: " 0 Lord, I mean,
may they in accord and concord hang together." "Amen!
Amen 1 " retorted the Tory, " any sort of cord so long as they
hang in it." * * *
Bomans and Roman Catholics. — Tour reference to the con-
fusion that obtains regarding the identity of the two Cromwells,
Thomas and Oliver, induces me to call attention to another
popular error, the confounding of the Roman occupation and
the Roman Catholic religion. Our Abbeys are frequently said,
by the common people, to have been built by the Romans.
Low Countbt Lopb-hoil. — What is a Low Country Lipe,
Lahpe, or Lope Hoil? A wide mouth is said to be like one. T.
Populab Rhymes. Births.
Monday's Bairn is fair of face,
Tuesday's Bairn is full of grace,
Wednesday's Bairn's the child of woe,
Thursday's Bairn has far to go,
Friday's Bairn is loving and giving,
Saturday's Bairn works hard for a living ;
But the Bairn that's born on a Sabbath day,
Is lucky and bonny and wise and gay.
Marriages.
The Woman that changes Jier name and not the first letter,
ifl all for the worse and none for the better.
The Children here play the game : — When you are married
be sure and be good, and help your wife to chop the wood.
Matlock.
Poob Man's Bane, and Antidote, (p. 12). — We find this poem
appeared in the Lonsdale Magazine, 1820, where it bears the
signature "Pauper," Sedbusk, 8th August, 1820. Two poems
u the same volume appear from the pen of the Rev. E. Fawcett,
8edbii8k, near Hawes. They are entitled " The Seasons, Analo-
gous to Man/9 and " Reflections on Human Life." Ed.
Giammab of Yorkshire Dialects. — Dr. — , M.A., Professor at
a German University, suggests that this desirable object should
b at once attempted. Assistance invited.
74 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Militant Barnes Ifcmttt.
" Not made so proper for singing as reading."
Of William Darney, alias " Scotch Will," the pedlar preacher,
nothing is recorded prior to 1742; when in the preface to
Hymn 162 of his hymn book he says, "In the year of our Lord
1742, after I had begun preaching, (sometime when I was
under great affliction both of body and mind) I began te
question my call to the ministry, altho' I had a clear call in
October before. The words were impressed upon my mind
which I put in verse after as followeth."
1. " When thus the second time that He,
My loving Ood and Lord,
Was pleased for to reveal to me,
That I should preach His word.
2. As a defenced city He,
Did promise me to make ;
And as an iron pillar strong
Which never none could shake."
continued to ten stanzas.
Of the locality of his birth, early life, conversion, and the
commencement of his ministry, nothing is known. He is
traditionally stated to have preached at Bradford, Manningham,
Eeighley, and intermediate places, about the year 1744. In
1745, the Bev. William Grimshaw went to hear him preach at
a house in the ginnel nearly opposite the Church gates at
Haworth, in order to confute his arguments, but he was con-
vinced that Darney was right, and after several private conver-
sations with him, conceived it to be his duty to assist in the
work in which he was engaged ; and shortly after began to visit
"Darney's Societies," as learner and instructor. These
societies were founded and visited by Darney ; they were also
called " Darney's Bound, because he went regularly round in
succession preaching and holding conversational meetings with
the members.
His round included a number of places in the neighbour-
hood of Heptonstall, Todmorden, Rochdale, Ooodshaw Chapel
in Bossendale, Bacup, Padiham, Pendleforest, Colne, &e. His
societies were visited by the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, in
1747. Darney at this time carried his pedlar's pack, sold his
wares, and preached a free gospel. In 1748, he was received
at the Leeds Conference as an itinerant preacher, and appointed
by Mr. Wesley, at Mr. Grimshaw's request, to the Haworth
round.
The following entries occur in the cirouit account book —
Oct. 10— Gave Wm. Darney 1/7.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 75
Jan. 10, 1749— To Wm. Darney'e wife £1 10s.
Do. A pair of boots for Wm. Darney 14/-
April 8, 1749— To Wm. Darney's wife £2 2s.
July 11, 1749— Do. do. £1 10s.
He several times receives money " for horse shoeing.1'
In October 1749, Darney brings the quarterage 6/6, from
Menstou, (Otley.) The quarterly meetings were discontinued
until 1754.
In 1750 and 1751, he laboured in the Leeds and Sheffield
circuits.
In tins latter year he published
A COLLECTION
OF
HYMNS.
By WILLIAM DARNEY.
In four Pabts.
Lbbdes :
Printed by James Lister, 1751.
Each part has a separate Title page. Part II. has Leedes
printed by James Lister, at New-Street-End.
A large proportion of the hymns have passages of Scripture
prefixed indicative of the subject; some have special titles — "A
penitential hymn;" "Hymn for sanctifying grace," &c; others
have titles pointing out the circumstances under which they
were written. Hymn 7, " The progress of the gospel in divers
parts of Great Britain/' (not made so proper for singing as for
reading.)" Hymn 74, "A hymn first made for the little
societies in the North of Yorkshire." Hymns 102 and 108,
" Funeral Hymns, first made for William and Mary Calbert, a
young couple who lay sick together, and died on one bed, Au-
gust, 1750." "Rev: 14-18." Hymn 116, "A Hymn first made
for the Bough Lee Society."
In 1755, he published at Glasgow, a treatise on the Funda-
mental Doctrines of the Holy Scriptures.
At a special conference of preachers held by the Rev. Charles
Wesley, at Leeds, in 1751, Darney was examined, and written
instructions were left with William Shent, that unless he —
Darney — "would abstain from railing, begging, and printing
nonsense, he should not be allowed to preach in any of the
Methodist Societies and preaching houses." He would have
been excluded from the list of preachers but for an appeal on
Kb behalf by Mr. Orimshaw. In 1758 he was in Wales, and
afterwards in Scotland, but appears to have had no regular
appointment for several years. At the Bristol Conference,
s
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76 YOBKSHIBE FOLK-LOBE.
1758, among other questions in the minutes in reference to the
preachers is the following: "Can we receive Wm. Darney?"
" Not till we are fully assured that he does not rail, print, or
sell wares, without a license.** He received no appointment,
but was employed by Mr. Grimshaw as an evangelist in the
neighbourhoods of Haworth, Halifax, &c. He remained in the
Haworth Circuit or Bound until 1764, when he was stationed
in Cornwall. He continued in full circuit work at different
places until 1769, when he settled at Barley, near Pendle Hill,
continuing to labour as a local preacher, and supporting him-
self by travelling, but a man of deep piety, strong sense, and
burning zeal, with a courage that fearlessly defied all opposition.
There was a rich vein of evangelical truth in his preaching,
often delivered with the quaintness of the old Puritan preach-
ers, which pleased and profited many. Perhaps, too, his
popularity was not lessened, by his frequently at the close of
his sermon giving out an extemporary hymn, adapted to the
subject upon which he had been discoursing. The poetry of
these extemporaneous effusions was not indeed of the first-
class, but it interested the people, and his preaching was made
the power of God to the salvation of many."
Darney stands forth like a comet in the religious history of
Yorkshire, and probably more credit is due to him than has
yet been recorded in Methodist histories. That he was an
illiterate man may easily be seen, but his genius and unflinch-
ing boldness and eloquence enabled him to wield a powerful
influence amongst the uneducated people.
C. D. Habdcastle.
THE PBOGBESS OP THE GOSPEL IN DIVEBS
PLACES* OP GBEAT-BBATAIN (Sic.)
1. In mercy guard thy little Flock, which do in Hawnby meet;
0 build them up upon the Book, and keep them at thy Feet.
2. When they were persecuted sore, for owning thy great name;
Thou did defend them by thy Power, and thou remains the
same.
8. 0 keep them from the foe within, (for he more subtile is)
Their own besetting Bosom Sin, and we thy name shall bless
4. On Silton and Osmotfierly, in mercy Lord look down ;
Bemember likewise Ingleby, thou blessed Holt One.
5. 0 keep them from the Enemy, unite them more in Love ;
O help them all to trust in Thee, and never from Thee more.
6. Thou knows how weak and frail they are, and easy turned
aside;
0 guard them by thy mighty Power, in Jesus to abide.
7. In Cleveland and in Stokesley Town, where Satan keeps his
Seat;
•Haying readers " in divers places of Great Bratain," we eopy the whole. Bi.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 77
Come 0 ! our God and oast him down* for Thou art very
great.
8. But in the midst of all the Town, thou know*st a lot doth
dwell;
With all his House Him do thou own, for He doth love thee
well.
9. He loves Thee, for thou first lov'd him, when he was gone
astray;
And brought him to thy self again, out of the evil Way.
10. 0 keep him and his Family, and all that with him meet ;
That they may Thanks give unto thee, whose Love is very
great.
11. Open a Door to preach thy Word, in spite of Satan's Power ;
From Satan's Power pluok Sinners, Lord t before he them
devour.
12. In Martain, thou hast called a few, who in thy Name do
meet;
0 Lord do their Hearts renew, and keep them at thy feet.
13. They are in Danger now of Pride, that they shall never fall;
0 keep them Savioub by thy side, and then they never shall.
14. Remember Think, and Towns around, in Mercy and in
Love;
Some do obey the Gospel Sound, 0 help them from Above.
15. Help them to keep their garments clean, thy Name for to
adore;
That others unto thee may tufti, and praise thee evermore.
16. In Holme there are some gracious souls, who've tasted of
thy Grace ;
But Satan doth throw in Gontrouls, his Power, O Lord,
deface.
17. That they may all agree in one, to meet and serve the
Lord;
In Unity of Spirit join, according to thy Word.
18. In Bishopbridge and Stockton Town, the Gospel now do speed ;
In Barnard Castle up and down, some are raised from the
dead.
19. Newcastle, in Northumberland, a Church there planted is ;
Which by the Grace of God shall stand, his Holy Name to
praise.
20. Her Branches now around doth spread, the Country Towns
all o'er ;
They reach to Berwick upon Tweed, upon the Scottish Shore.
21. In Whitehaven, we now do hear, a glorious Work's begun ;
Bide on thou glorious Conqueror, thy Work there carry on.
22. Our dear Bedeemer is at Work, the Country all around ;
And in the City now of York the Gospel trump we sound.
28. In Rufforih and in Accomb Town our Saviour hath a few ;
Who do give Glory to his Name, for Mercies ever new.
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78 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
24. Likewise to Selby>we do go, God's Mercies to proclaim ;
And warn the people there also, to trust in Jesus Name.
25. And to that pop'lous Place called Hull, where People far
and near,
On the Account of Ships that sail, oome to buy foreign Ware.
26. And now the Gospel- Ship is come, rich laden from Above ;
The Sailor's (8k) cry in Jesus Name, the Riches of his love.
27. Here is good Ware that will enrich, all those who it receive.
The Poor and Needy, and all such are welcome who believe.
28. Repent, believe, and take, who will, now of this heavenly
Store;
Here now is plenty foryou all, make Rich for ever more.
29. But if you now our Wares refuse, and feed on Husks like
Swine;
Towards another Coast we'll cruise, where they'll receive
our Wine.
80. And in that Day when we sail home, up to our Port above;
Our Captain will bid you be gone, for trampling on his
Love.
81. Then will ye all repent too late, his Mercy ne'er shall know,
0 dismal then will be your Fate, to burn in endless Woe.
82. In Leedes and many Towns around, the Work goes sweetly
on;
There's many hear the Gospel Sound, and to the Bavioub
turn.
88. 0 may the Number xnord increase, to feel the sprinkling
Blood ;
Which do thy People all refresh, to praise thy Name O God.
84. In Birstal and in Towns that's near, have long Time heard
the sound,
Of thy sweet Gospel Savioub dear; let much Fruit there be
found.
85. 0 purge thou them from Biggotry, likewise from spiritual
Pride,
And make them simple, set them free in Jasus to abide.
86. 0 do thou them restore again, 0 God, to their first Love ;
Then shall they cheerfully go on, And never from thee
move.
87. On Wakefield cast a pitying Eye, for it hath long withstood;
And did thy Messenger defy. O turn thou them O God.
88. On Bradford likewise look thou down, where Satan keeps
his Seat;
Come by thy Power Lobd him disthrone, for thou art very
great.
89. In Windall* and in Baildon Town, thy Children simple be:
In Yeadon and in Menston-green, some truly mourn for thee.
40. In Ecclesall,* they're stiff and proud, and few that dwell
therein,
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Do shew they've any fear of God, or hatred unto Sin.
41. 0 let them feel thy mighty Power, before that they do die ;
And save them from their hellish Gore, on Jesus to rely.
42. In Keighley, by thine own right Hand, a Church is planted
there;
0 help them Sayioub all to stand, thy Goodness to declare.
48. Haworth't a place that God doth own, with many a sweet
smile;
With Power the Gospel preach'd therein, which many one
doth feel.
44. Both far and near they hither come, their hungry souls to
feed:
And God from Heaven sendeth down, to them the living
Bread.
45. There's many go rejoicing home, in praising of their God ;
And want their Neighbours for to come, and taste the
heav'nly Food.
46. But while the Strangers do receive, the Blessing from above,
There's many near the Church that starve for want of
Jksus Love.
47. They do content themselves like Swine to feed on Husks
and Dirt ;
For all their pleasure is to Sin, and live in carnal Sport.
46. At Bradforddale, near Thornton Town, and Places all
around;
And at Lingbob sometimes at Noon, the Gospel trump we
sound.
49. There are some few that do obey, our dear Redeemer's call ;
And by his Grace they daily pray, that Christ may be their All.
50. In Bradshaw and in Maxinden, our Saviour hath a few ;
Who sweetly of his Love can tell, which doth their Souls
renew.
51. At Booth and Sowerby here and there, Christ hath a little
flock;
0 keep them from the Wolf and Bear, and hide them in
the Bock.
52. In HaUfax, and Sktrcoat-green, some precious Souls there be ;
Which are now saved by Faith alone, and bring forth Fruit
to thee.
58. In Qreetland and at Bradley-Hall, and Lamb-coat there axe
some;
SaUenden-noak and Gowker-hill who seek to know the Lamb.
64. In Htptonstall, the Parish flirough, the Gospel fftill doth
spread;
And here and there, there are a few which on the Savioub
feed.
56. Near Todmorden our blessed Lord, a Church hath planted
there :
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The Pillars stand firm to his Word, his goodness they
declare.
56. The Gospel of our Lobd doth spread, likewise in Rottendall:
In NewhaU-hay and Oakney-wood, Chkist is become their Ail.
57. In Mercy Lobd t 0 look thou down, on those about Good-
sIulw ;
For many of thy Lambs are torn, by Wolves who cunning
be.
58. These cunning Wolves the Truth in part, hold in un-
righteousness ;
But do not feel within their heart, the dear Redeemer's
Bliss.
59. For Faith that's true it works by Loye, and doth the Heart
renew ;
It sets the Mind on things Above, to witness God is true.
60. Our dear Redeemer doth declare, the Tree's known by the
Fruit :
Of the true Vine Believers are, in Jesus they take Root.
61. The Mind of Chbist implanted is, in each Believer's Heart;
Which makes them sing their Savioub's Praise who is their
happy Part.
62. 0 bring thou back these wand'ring Sheep, thou loving
Savioub dear.
And in thy Fold them do thou Keep by thine Almighty
Power.
68. On Pendleforest, from above 0 God do thou look down ;
Please to restore to their first love, thy People there again.
64. In Harden, and in Simons tone, and Higham there's a few ;
0 that thy Love may melt them down, and all their Hearts
renew.
65. At Sherfanside and Brimincroft the Work it is begun ;
And Satan's Soldiers they do fight for fear we take Black-
burn.
66. To Chipping, and to Wycoler, we go each fortnight day :
1 wish we could see Fruit appear, for that we still do pray.
67. At Deinliead also at Bank- House, and other places near ;
They now do long for Jesus bliss, our God to love and fear.
68. In ShackerUy, and in Bolton, likewise in Harewood-Lee ;
Our Savioub his Grace dropt down, and set his children free.
69. And others he is calling still, and many they do mourn ;
And long the Savioub's Power to feel, for to remove their
Sin.
70. In Manchester, that Populous Place, where trade hath
flourished long ;
In worldly Riches they increase, which fills both Heart
and Tongue.
71. Yet with all Art and cunning Skill, they cannot make one
Robe,
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To Cloath a naked troubled Soul, who feels the Wrath of
God.
72. But now of late good News we bring, to all who give an Ear ;
Here are fine Robes which make them sing who do the
same now wear.
78. But if you ask me when it was, that these fine Robes were
spun;
It was when Christ did bear our Curse, and died for our Sin.
74. Come therefore now each naked Soul, put on this wedding
Dress ;
Believe and Chbist shall be your All, the Lobd our
Righteousness.
75. Therefore 0 Manchester! return, this Call it is for you ;
8eek to be saved by Grace alone, this Doctrine is for you.
76. True Grace thro' Faith will bring good Fruit and make
your Hearts rejoice ;
In the true Vine when you take root and glorifie his Grace.
77. In Cheshire still the work doth spread,and Jesus gets the Day:
0 praise him all ye faithful Seed, still do ye watch and pray.
78. All ye at Holme likewise Botlibank, Warburton, Oldjield-brow*
Go on dear Souls, and never shrink for Jesus pleads for you.
79. In Cluster, and in Alpraham, there's some that can rejoice ;
Their Hearts do dance at Jesus Name, who sav'd them by
his Grace.
80. How many places here and there, do long to hear the
sound ;
And Multitudes in Derbyshire, have the Redeemer found.
81. Come now dear Reader, let us take a turn another where,
As far as Syke-house and Fishlake, which joins to Lincolnshire.
82. There are a few who do believe, in our Redeeming Lord ;
And in their Hearts they do receive the Blessings of his
Word.
88. There is Rotherham and Sheffield, and likewise Barley -hay ;
0 let thy Power defend and shield, them from their foes
alway.
84. There is Barley-liaU and High-green, 0 Lord do not forget ;
Help them to conquer every Sin, and worship at thy Feet.
85. In Epwortft- Ferry, West-wood-side, still let thy Blessings flow ;
The tender Lambs of Cloweth hide, within thy skirts alway.
86. Preserve all those in Misterton who call upon thee there,
0 save them from each Bosom Sin and all their Hearts
Lobd! chear.
87. Bless Hainton and sweet Conningsby, and make their Hearts
rejoice ;
And all that do with them draw nigh, unto the Throne of
Grace.
88. There is brother Toft and Wrangle, of late they have begun
To seek let them never strangle ; but thy Work carry on.
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89. 0 dearest Saviour oast an eye, on Ludbrough's little Flock;
On thy pure bosom let them lye, and hide them in the Rock.
90. The few tender Lambs in Tliorsby O bear them in thine
Arms;
And thy precious sheep in Tetney keep them from Satan's
Charms.
91. Remember Lobd thy tender Vine, which thy Right Hand
did plant ;
Thy little Church in Grimsby Town, supply their every want.
92. On Lasby few, and KilUngholm, still let thy Mercy flow ;
And at AUcbrough and Winterton, thy paths teach them to go.
98. In Bilton-Elland, and Garthorp, these Towns within the
Isle;
Dear Jesus carry on thy work, by thy own power and skill.
94. In Birmingham and Staffordshire, Shrewsbury, Dudley Town :
And all the Places joining near, thy Work still carry on.
95. In EvWsham, London, and in Kent, and Essex all around ;
0 keep thy People who repent, within thy Gospel sound.
96. Sometimes from Wales good news we hear, which makes
our Hearts rejoice ;
That many do believe and fear, and sing redeeming Grace.
97. Likewise the Tinners in Cornwall, which did play, drink and
swear ;
They now the Saviour's Grace do feel; his Holy Namb they
fear.
98. In Bristol, Bath, and in Kingswood, Chbist hath been long
at Work ;
And now the sound of Jesus Blood, hath reached unto Cork.
99. The Gospel now doth spread we hear, much in the Irish
Nation.
And many Souls the Lord do fear, and in Christ find
Salvation.
100. In Scotland, 0 Lord, in Mercy, thy Work do thou revive;
And purge thou them from Biggotry, that they to thee
may live.
101. There's many Places up and down, whereof I do not know;
That many unto God return, and love his Will to do.
102. Gird on thy Sword upon thy Thigh, 0 thou most mighty
God.
In Glory and in Majesty, with Garments dipt in Blood.
108. Bide on, ride on, the Nation thro' and conquer them all
o'er;
That they to Jesus Name may bow and the Godhead adore.
104. Make all the Nations fear thy Name, And Anti-Christ to
fall;
Then shall we ever Praise the Lamb our God, our All in
All.
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8upbb8tition8. — Whilst turning over the pages of an old
prose epitome of extracts, published in 1792, I crime upon a
humorous article oh the above subject, by " A Connoisseur ; "
so, thinking it might be interesting to readers of local folk-lore,
I followed Captain Cuttle's advice, and have made a "note
on't." Here it is, with the spelling civilised, [? modernized]
but otherwise verbatim : —
"You must know, Mr. Town, that I am just returned from
a visit of a fortnight to an old aunt in the North, where I was
mightily diverted with the traditional superstitions, which are
most religiously preserved in the family, as they have been
delivered down, time out of mind, from their sagacious grand-
mothers. When I arrived I found the mistress of the house
very busily employed, with her two daughters, in nailing a
horse-shoe to the threshhold of the door. This they told me,
was to guard against the spiteful designs of an old woman, who
was a witch, and had threatened to do the family a mischief
because my young cousins laid two straws across to see if the
old hag could walk over them. The young lady assured me
that she had several times heard Goody Cripple mutter to her-
self, and to be sure she was saying the Lord's Prayer back-
wards. Besides, the old woman had very often asked them for
a pin, but they took care never to give her anything that was
sharp, because she should not bewitch them. They afterwards
told me many other particulars of this kind, the same that are
mentioned with infinite humour by the Spectator ; and to con-
firm them they assured me that the eldest miss, when she was
little, used to have fits, till the mother flung a knife at another
old witch, whom the devil had carried off in a high wind, and
fetched blood from her. When I was to go to bed,- my aunt
made a thousand apologies for not putting me in the best room
of the house, which, she said, had never been lain in since the
death of an old washerwoman, who walked every night and
haunted that room in particular. They fancied that the old
woman had hid money somewhere, and could not rest till she
had told somebody ; and my cousin assured me that she might
have had it all to herself, for the spirit came to her bedside one
night, and wanted to tell her, but she had not courage to speak
to it. I learned also that they had a footman once, who
hanged himself for love ; and he walked for a great while, till
they got the parson to lay him in the Bed Sea. I had not been
here long when an accident happened which very much alarmed
the whole family. Towzer one night howled most terribly,
which was a sure sign that somebody belonging to them would
die. The youngest miss declared that she had heard the hen
crow that morning, which was another fatal prognostic. They
told me that just before uncle died Towzer howled so for
several nights together that they could not quiet him ; and my
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aunt heard the death-watch tick as plainly as if there had been
a clock in the room ; the maid, too, who sat up with him, heard
a bell toll at the top of the stairs the very moment the breath
went out of his body. Daring this discourse I overheard one
of my cousins whisper the other that she was afraid their
mamma would not live long, for she smelt an ugly smell, like
a dead carcase. They had a dairymaid who died the very week
after a hearse had stopped at the door on its way to church ;
and the eldest miss, when she was but thirteen, saw her own
brother's ghost, who was gone to the West Indies, walking in
the garden ; and to be sure, nine months after, they had an
account that he died on board the ship the very same day, and
hour of the day, that miss saw his apparition. I need not
mention to you the common incidents, which were accounted
by them no less prophetic. If a cinder popped from the fire
they were in haste to examine whether it was a purse or a
coffin. They were aware of my coming long before I arrived,
because they had seen a stranger on the grate. The youngest
miss will let nobody use the poker but herself, because when
she stirs the fire it always burns bright, which is a sign that
she will have a brisk husband ; and sho is no less sure of a
good one, because she generally has ill-luck at cards. Nor is
the candle less oracular than the fire ; for the squire of the
parish came one night to pay them a visit, when the tallow
winding-sheet pointed towards him, and he broke his neck
soon after in a fox chase. My aunt one night observed, with
great pleasure, a letter in the candle, and the very next day
one came from her son in London. We knew when a spirit
was in the room, by the candle burning blue ; but poor cousin
Nancy was ready to cry one time, when she snuffed it out, and
could not blow it in again ; though her sister did it at a whiff,
and consequently triumphed in her superior virtue. We had
no occasion for an almanack or weather-glass, to let us know
whether it would rain or shine. One evening I proposed to
ride out with my cousin the next day to see a gentleman's
house in the neighbourhood ; but my aunt assured us it would
be wet, she knew very well, from the shooting of her corn.
Besides, there was a great spider crawling up the chimney, and
the blackbird in the kitchen began to sing ; which were both of
them as certain forerunners of rain. But the most to be
depended on in these cases is a tabby cat, which usually lies
basking on the parlour hearth. If the cat turned her tail to
.the fire, we were to have a hard frost ; if the cat licked her tail,
rain would certainly ensue. They wondered what stranger
they should see, because puss washed her face over the left ear.
The old lady complained of a cold, and her eldest daughter
remarked that it would go through the family; for she observed
that poor Tab had sneezed several times. Poor Tab, however,
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once flew at one of my cousins ; for which she had like to have
been destroyed, as the whole family began to think she was no
other than a witch. It is impossible to tell you the several
tokens by which they know whether good or ill luck will happen
to them. Spilling the salt, or laying knives across, are every-
where accounted ill omens ; but a pin with the head turned
towards you, or to be followed by a strange dog, I found -were
very unlucky. I heard one of my cousins tell the cook-maid
that she boiled away all her sweethearts, because she had let
her dish-water boil over. The same young lady one morning
came down to breakfast with her cap the wrong side out; which
the mother observing, charged her not to alter it all day, for
fear she should turn her luck. But above all I could not help
remarking the various prognostics which the old lady and her
daughters used to collect from almost every part of the body.
A white speck upon the nails made them as sure of a gift as if
they had it already in their pockets. The eldest sister is to
have one husband more than the youngest, because she has
one more wrinkle in her forehead ; but the other will have the
advantage of her in the number of children, as was plainly
proved by snapping their finger-joints. It would take up too
much room to set down every circumstance which I observed of
this sort during my stay with them. I shall therefore conclude
my letter with the several remarks on other parts of the body,
as far as I could learn them from this prophetic family ; for, as
I was a relation, you know they had less reserve. If the head
itches, it is a sign of rain. If the head aches, it is a profitable
pain. If you have the toothache, you don't love true. If your
eye-brow itches you will see a stranger. If your right eye
itches, you will cry ; if your left, you will laugh ; but left or
right is good at night. If your nose itches, you will shake
bands with or kiss a fool, drink a glass of wine, run against a
cuckold's door, or miss them all four. If your right ear or
cheek burns, your left friends are talking of you ; if your left,
your right friends are talking of you. If your elbow itches,
yon will change your bedfellow. If your right hand itches,
you will pay away money ; if your left, you will receive some.
If your stomach itches, you will eat pudding. If your back
itches, butter will be cheap when grass grows there. If your
aide itches, somebody is wishing for you. If your gartering
place itches, you will go to a strange place. If your foot itches,
yon will tread strange ground. Lastly, if you shiver, somebody
is walking over the place of your grave."
Now we cannot by any stretch imagine all these events to
have occurred in one family during the space of a fortnight ; so
that it must be, as the title explains, an enumeration of the
superstitions then prevalent. Were Mr. Connoisseur now
living he would find that the descendants of his relations had
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not derogated one tittle from the customs impressed on them
by their " sagacious grandmothers.'* There are many more
curious sayings and customs yet existing, which the Connois-
seur doubtless missed. These I shall not now detail, but as to
the nature and origin of superstitions, I shall perhaps haye
something to say in a future Note.
Great Horton. Jbssb Mitchell.
In the above enumeration, the Editor can corroborate from
his own observation many of the superstitious notions. In Idel
there are still to be found horse-shoes nailed on cottage doors
(three cases at least), and one under a wooden pig-trough.
Most children have " crossed the rainbow out " by placing two
sticks across, until some youngster has reproved them for
" crossing Christ's name out." In order to make assurance
doubly certain, a boy will say to his mate— "If thou art sure
and certain, cross thy sen," that is, make a sign of the cross
with the finger on the forehead or breast. Several old people
here believe that the Airedale College Students of sixty years
ago most effectually laid a troublesome ghost. I can give the
man's name, and a few of his personal characteristics, but as
his spirit is now quiet I refrain. A very noted Wiseman lived
here not long ago, and his books are in the hands of a relative.
An old woman now lives here who is greatly feared by a few
" believers." Haworth and Southowram have had, in the
present century, highly reputed Wisemen. "A whistling woman
and a crowing hen* are neither fit for God nor men,1' is a com-
mon saying. An old lady and her middle-aged son were
greatly alarmed at the ticking of a death-watch. I relieved
their anxieties by shewing them that it was my watch that I
had placed on a shelf, but I did not remove their belief in
death-watcheB. The death-watch, that is, the insect so called,
may be frequently heard during hot summers in the damp old
house at Idel, made historic by the residence of the Revs.
Joseph Dawson and William Vint. Unaccountable knocks are
certain signs of deaths, and many who try to disbelieve other
death-signs, stand mute before these. The flakes of soot on
the bars, the cinders cast out of the firegrate, the stalk swimm-
ing in the tea-cup indicate, with more or less credence, a visit
from a stranger, a gift or coffin, and a letter by next post. A
few greatly fear the evil result of blowing or snuffing a candle
out accidentally, and eagerly puff the red embers into a flame
if possible. I have learnt by experience that there is truth in
the relationship of corn shooting and bad weather. So may
those who suffer from chilblains on the hands. Some greatly
desire the good luck ensured by having a cricket singing on the
hearth, and the cat would be severely punished that killed this
good visitor. If puss sits with her back to the fire there will
be bad weather, and she must make an alteration in her
* " Will fetch the Devil out of his den."
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position, or there will be discontented minds. If she runs wild
after her tail a great storm is near. Spilling salt, crossing
knives, a couple of persons when shaking hands crossing the
hands of another couple doing the same, thirteen persons at
table, these bring anxieties to some who fear there may be
truth in the old sayings. If your right ear burns someone is
praising you; if the left, you are being scolded or blamed.
Perhaps the commonest, and yet least-believed, is that the
cracks caused by pulling each of the ten fingers indicate the
number of sweethearts. In conclusion, please to remember
that if the ball or hollow of the hand tickles you will have
some money left.
Wipe Sales. — From a copy of the Leeds Mercury for June
1st, 1889, we glean the following items of local interest:
William Farrar of Stanningley, better known by Duke Farrar,
took his wife to the market cross in Bradford, on Monday
morning last, at a little after four o'clock, and sold and
delivered her in the presence of a witness, named Hainsworth,
to a man from the same place, called Green, for the sum of 5s.,
2s. 6d. of which was given to the witness for his wages. The
parties went from Stanningley to Bradford market-cross, under
the idea that the transfer would then be legal.
Amongst the popular errors which have existed in the minds
of the most ignorant of the population may be classed the
strange belief that the marriage tie could be dissolved by the
sale of the wife by public auction ; and a good deal of surprise
was felt in many villages of ignorant peasantry at the result of
a trial at the West Biding Sessions, June 28th, 1837, where a
man named Joshua Jackson was convicted of selling his wife,
and sentenced to imprisonment for one month with hard
labour. In 1858, in a beershop in Little Horton, Bradford, a
man named Hartley Thompson put up his wife, described by
the local journals at the tintt as " a pretty young woman," for
6ale ; he even announced the sale beforehand by means of a
crier or bellman ; he brought her in with a ribbon round her
neck, by way of halter. These two persons had lived unhappily
together and both entertained a belief that by such a process
as this they could legally separate for life. In the year 1815,
a man held a regular auction in the market-place at Pontefract,
offering his wife at a minimum bidding of one shilling, and
u knocking her down " for eleven shillings. S. Bayneb.
Another case has come under our notice on the authority of
old people of Paddock, near Huddersfield. Edward Holt bought
a woman, and, after the death of the legitimate husband, married
her. Their children were widely known and respected under
the name Th . Ed.
Fuffen — Fought. — A Birstall woman told Mr. Heald, the
Vicar, that she and her husband had been married forty years,
and they had never " fuffen " during that time.
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Btbanoe Phenomena. — On the 18th of January, 1792, a
singular meteoric appearance was observed near Stockton-on*
the-Forest, about four miles from York, which resembled a
large army in separate divisions, some in black and others in
white uniforms. One of these divisions formed a line thai
appeared near a mile in extent, in the midst of which appeared
a number of fir trees, which seemed to move along with the
line. These aerial troops moved in different directions, and
sometimes with amazing rapidity. The above is stated to have
been seen by persons of credit and respectability. A meteoric
phenomenon of the same kind was seen near Harrogate, on
Sunday, June 28th, 1812, between seven and eight o'clock in
the evening, by Anthony Jackson, aged 45 years, and Martin
Turner, a young man, and son of a farmer in the neighbour-
hood. When looking after their cattle they were suddenly
surprised to see at some distance what appeared to them a
large body of armed men, in white military uniforms, in the
centre of which was a person of a commanding aspect dressed
in scarlet. After performing various evolutions the whole body
began to move forward in perfect order towards the summit of
a hill, passing the spectators at the distance of about 100
yards. No sooner had this body, which extended four deep
over an enclosure of 80 acres, attained the hill, than a second
body, far more numerous than the former, dressed in a dark,
coloured uniform, appeared, and marched after the first to the
top of the hill, where they both joined and passed down the
opposite side of the hill and disappeared, when a column of
thick smoke spread over the plain. The time from the first
appearance of this strange phenomenon to the clearing up of
the smoke, the spectators supposed was little more than five
minutes. These appearances created a great sensation among
the superstitious, who considered them as ominous of the great
waste of blood by Britain in her wars with America and France.
In 1748, one David Stricket, then servant to John Wren, of
Wilton Hill, a shepherd, was sitting one evening after supper
at the door with his master, when they saw a man with a dog
pursuing some horses on Southerfell-side, a place so steep that
a horse can scarcely travel on it at all, and they seemed to run
at an amazing pace, and to disappear at the lower end of the
fell. Master and man resolved to go next morning to the steep
side of the mountain, on which they expected to find that the
horses had lost their shoes, from the rate at which they galloped,
and the man his life. They went, but to their surprise they
found no vestige of horses having passed that way. They said
nothing about their vision for some time, fearing the ridicule
of their neighbours, and this they did not fail to receive when
they at length ventured to relate their story. On the 28rd of
June, the following year (1744), Stricket, who was then servant
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Xo a Mr. Lancaster, of Blakehills, the next house to Wilton
Hill9 was walking a little above the house in the evening, about
half-past seven, when on looking towards Southerfell, he saw a
troop of men on horse-back riding on the mountain-side in
pretty close ranks, and at the speed of a brisk walk. He looked
earnestly at this appearance for some time before he ventured
to acquaint any one with what he saw, remembering the
ridicule he had brought on himself by relating his former
vision. At length, satisfied of its reality, he went into the
house and told his master he had something curious to show
him. The master said he supposed Stricket wanted him to
look at a bon-fire, (being the eve of St. John, it was a custom
for the shepherds to vie with each other for the largest bon-
fire). However, they went out together, and before Stricket
re of or pointed to the phenomenon, Mr. Lancaster himself
rved it, and when they found they both saw alike they
summoned the rest of the family, who all came, and all saw
the visionary horsemen. There were many troops, and they
seemed to come from the lower part of the fell, becoming first
visible at a place called Enott. They then moved in regular
order in a curvilinear path along the side of the fell, until they
came opposite to Blakehills, when they went over the mountain
and disappeared. The last, or last but one, in every troop
galloped to the front, and then took the swift walking pace of
the rest. The phenomenon was also seen by every person at
every cottage within a mile, and from the time that Stricket
first observed it the appearance lasted two hours and a half,
namely, from half-past seven until night prevented any further
view. Such are the circumstances as related in Clark's Survey
of the Lakes, 1789. Thomas Hanley.
A Strange Legend. — On the eastern end of the outside of
Batley Church, under the shade of the great eastern window,
there is a not common tombstone ; insomuch as on its centre
there is a small brass plate, in size about eight inches by six,
which once had upon it an inscription but can now only boast
of a few unintelligible letters. The centre of this brass plate is
worn hollow by a strange process. A tradition is current that
any one who will put his hands upon this plate, and at the
same time look up at the great coloured window — dedicated
people say to the memory of a drunken woman — for five
minutes he will not be able to take his hands off again. The
appearance of the plate testifies to the popularity as well as the
untruthfulness of this popular fit. B.
A Legend of Purlwell Hall, Dewsbury. — There is a pretty
local legend connected with Purlwell Hall, or farm. It lacks
the terrible blackness of a Rhenish tradition, is the pleasanter
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for it ; and reads as well as the better known ones of our York-
shire dales. Once upon a time, say 150 years ago, there dwelt
at the old hall, along with her unole and aunt, a young orphan
lady, noted alike for beauty, goodness, and intellect. She
loved, and was beloved, and beloved by two, one honest and
poor, the other handsome and rich, and her choice fell upon the
former one. Her choice was not a happy one for all. Her
uncle and aunt, and, we may suppose the rejected suitor, felt
annoyed ; for the traditionary story so informs us, and further
than that, the little square library was for the future her
prison, till she should decide in favour of the " Captain." The
story, as we heard it years ago, was incomplete ; it did not say
how long she was here immured, but were we allowed to finish
the tale we should certainly say that during the time she was
there her love did not lessen for the man of her choice, and
that he was ever in her thoughts as she gazed out upon the
hills to the south, then visible in the smokeless sky, that in
conclusion her adopted parents relented, the captain became
tired of bis hopeless suit, and " Miss Taylor" became the wife
of the one she loved. It is the pleasantest ending to the story.
But this is not all. It cannot be said to be "legendary"
upon these few facts, for the time is not far enough back, or
the personage of so exalted rank as to make it a legend of note.
We must therefore return to the windows, the little square
ones, which a year or two ago were there, but which may now
be replaced by others of more modern size.
There she kept her reflections, scratched by some diamond;
perhaps one she boasted of in a little keepsake " ring " of her
mother's, and the visitor could read here a stray line and there
a couple, here a verse and there another, but which most
pleased was the one I learnt at the time, and which is, I think,
as follows : —
Come gentle muse, wont to divert
Corroding cares from anxious heart,
Adjust me now to bear the smart
Of a relenting angry heart.
What, though no being I have on earth,
Tho' near the place which gave me birth,
And kindred less regard do pay
Than thy acquaintance of a day.
Enow, what the best of men declare,
That they on earth but strangers are ;
Nor matters it a few years hence
How fortune did to thee dispense.
If— in a palace thou hast dwelt ;
Or — in a cell penury felt ;
Ruled — as a prince ; served — as a slave
Six feet of earth U all thou' It Juive.
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Here give my thoughts a nobler theme,
Since all this world is but a dream
Of short continuance. M. Taylob, 1726.
Of course the spelling is rather different from our present
method, bnt the caligraphy is a marvel of neatness, just as the
sentiments expressed are noble. There are other pieces worthy
of record here, but they do not bear upon or explain the story
as this I have given does. In conclusion I should be glad if
some reader could furnish us with the true history of the
antique oak cross* which surmounts the gable end of the old
hall, and for which Mr. J. B. Greenwood, the owner, pays, to
this day, royalty of one shilling yearly.
Curious Custom. — Two farms lying in the township of Swin-
ton, Yorkshire, and which belong to Earl Fitzwilliam, late in
the occupation of John Mercer and Bicbard Thompson, every
year change their parish. For one year, from Easter Day at
twelve at noon till next Easter Day at the same hour, they lie
in the parish of Mexborough, and then till Easter Day follow-
ing, at the same hour, they are in the parish of Wath-upon-
Dearne, and so alternately. These farms consist of 802 acres. —
Blount9 8 Ancient Tenures of Land; Extracted from the Wath
Magazine, June, 1832.
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A Yorkshibeman's Joke. — On May 17th, 1828, (says "Hone's
Year Book"), as a countrywoman, with her market basket on
her arm, was admiring "a bit of finery" in a draper's window at
York, her partner in life came up without being noticed by her,
and perceiving her intense gaze at what she could not purchase,
he secretly abstracted a handkerchief from her basket, and
went his way in joyful anticipation of his wife's vexation upon
her discovering its absence. Unluckily for the joker, a gentle-
man, to whom the parties were strangers, observed the trick, '
and directed a constable to secure the villain. The robber was
seized on the pavement and instantly carried before a magis-
trate. In the meantime, the unsuspecting woman was informed
of her loss, and hurried away to identify the luckless handker-
chief. She did so, it was her own, the very one she had been
deprived of, and turning with honest indignation to look at the
thief, she exclaimed with astonishment, '• Oh, lawks ! gentle-
men, it's my husband f " The arm of law was paralysed. The
prisoner was the robber of his own property. The magistrate
laughed, the gentleman and the constable laughed, and the
•Probably the cross indicates that the property once belonged to the
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. On Winteredge, Coley Old Parsonage,
tod Coley Hall gateway, in Hipperholme ; and on houses near Harden,
nmflar crosses may still be seen. Such property was exempt from certain
taxes.— Ed.
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charge having been laughingly dismissed, the liberated husband
and his artless wife posted away to tell the village neighbour*
what awful things had happened to them in York.
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Strange Appeabance. — In Cliambers's Papers for the People it
is said : — There is no period in the history of this country so
full of extraordinary occurrences as the seventeenth century.
The death of Elizabeth in 1608 put an end to the comparative
calm which had for some time existed ; and from that period
until the accession of William and Mary in 1689, the whole
kingdom was convulsed with intestine commotions. The re-
bellion in Ireland, the civil wars of Scotland, the execution of
Charles I., the usurpation of Cromwell, the destruction of the
Monarchy, the establishment of a Commonwealth, the abdi-
cation of James II., and again the rebellion in Ireland, form a
series of events only to be rivalled perhaps by the history of
Europe during the singular year of 1848. Besides events
reaching to historical dignity, there was what appears at first
sight an extraordinary succession of inferior occurrences— as
plagues, tempests, conflagrations, marvellous appearances in
the sky, all of which the people believed to be essentially con-
nected with the march of historical events, in as far as every
one of them was regarded as a mark of the way in whioh
Providence regarded the doings of statesmen. Many of the
narrations of these occurrences are exceedingly curious, both
for the nature of the occurrences themselves, and the terms in
which they are set forth for popular admiration, as well as the
comments made upon them, in which we are presented with a
lively illustration of the temper of the popular mind during that
age. We select the following relating to Yorkshire: — "The
true relation of a strange and very wonderful thing that was
heard in the air October 12th, 1658, by many hundreds of
people : — As the Lord sees what a deep sleep is seized upon as
as no low voice will awaken us, so he is pleased to roar aloud
from heaven, intending thereby (in all likelihood) either to
rouse us up out of our present security, or to leave us the more
without excuse in the day of his fierce wrath. Now I come to
relate the matter, the which was thus : — Upon the 12th day of
October, in the afternoon, there was heard by some hundreds
of people in Holderness, Hedon, and about Hull, and several
other places in Yorkshire — first, three great pieces of ordnance
or cannons discharged in the air one after another, very terrible
to hear, and afterwards immediately followed a peal of muskets.
This shooting off of muskets continued about an half-quarter
of an hour, drums beating all the while in the manner just as
if two armies had been engaged. Such as heard the aforesaid
cannons, muskets, and drums, do report that the sound was
from the north-east quarter, and, to their thinking not far from
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the place where they stood. Two men being together about
six miles from Hull in Holderness, near Humber-side, supposed
it was directly over Hull ; whereupon one said to the other,
" It being the sheriff's riding-day at Hull, this peal of muskets
must be there; and see (quoth he) how the smoke riseth!"
Now the reason why he mentioned the smoke was, because no
sooner was this noise finished over Hull, but (as it happeneth
after the discharge of gun6) there arose a very great smoke or
thick mist round about the town, although immediately before
(the day being a very clear day, and the sun shining all the
while very bright) he saw the town very perfectly. One thing
more was observed by him who saw the smoke over Hull ; that
all the while this prodigious noise continued (which was as he
supposed, about the eighth part of an hour), the face of the
sky (as in the eclipses of the sun) waxed very dim ; yea, such
a strange nature accompanied it, that the very earth seemed to
tremble and quake under him. A certain gentleman, who had
been some time a major in the war, as he was riding with a
friend between the towns of Patterington and Ottringham, was
so persuaded that some encounter by soldiers was on the other
side of a small hill where they were riding, as that they could
not but mount the hill to try the truth, so plainly did the
drums beat and the muskets go off, and, to their thinking, so
near them, as either it must be a sign from heaven or a real
battle hard by. The country people were struck with such
strange wonder and deep terror, that they gave over their
labour, and ran home with fear; yea, some poor people gather-
ing coals by the seaside were so frightened that they ran away,
leaving their sacks behind them. In conclusion : for the space
of forty miles this fearful noise of cannons, muskets, and drums,
was heard all the country over."
Thb Belief in Witches. — In Henderson's "Folk Lore" I
find the following :— Through the dales of Yorkshire we find
hares still in mysterious relationship to witches. The Rev. J.
C. Atkinson informs me that a new plantation having been
made near Eskdale, great havoc was committed among the
newly-planted trees by hares. Many of these depredators were
shot, but one hare seemed to bid defiance to shot and snare
alike, and returned to the charge night after night. By the
advice of a wise man (I believe of the wise man of Stokesley)
recourse was had to silver shot, which was obtained by cutting
up some small silver coin. The hare came again as usual, and
was shot with the silver charge. At that moment an old lady
who lived at some distance, but had always been considered
somewhat uncannie, was busy tamming, that is, roughly card-
ing wool for her spinning. She suddenly flung up both her
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hands, gave a wild shriek, and crying out, " They have shot
my familiar spirit," fell down and died.
In another dale, higher up the course of the Esk, was a hare
which baffled all the greyhounds that were slipped at her.
They seemed to have no more chance with her than if they
were coursing the wind. There was at the time a noted witch
residing near, and her advice was asked about this wonderful
hare. She seemed to have little to say about it, however, only
she thought they had better let it be, and above all they must
take care how they slipped a black dog at it. Nevertheless,
either from recklessness or from distrust of their adviser, the
Sarty did soon after go out coursing with a black dog. The
og was slipped, and they perceived at once that the hare was
at a disadvantage. She made as soon as possible for a atone
wall, and attempted to escape through a " smout " or sheep-
hole at the bottom. Just as she reached it the hound threw
himself upon her and caught her in the haunch, but was unable
to hold her ; she got through, and was seen no more. The
sportsmen, either in bravado or in terror of the consequences,
went straight to the house of the witch to tell her what had
happened. They found her in bed, hurt, she said, by a fall ;
but the wound looked very much as if it had been produced by
the teeth of a dog, and it was on a part of the person corres-
ponding to that by which the hare had been seized before their
eyes by the black hound. Whether this wise woman recovered
of the wound I know not, but the Guisborough Witch, who
died within the memory of man, was lame for several years, in
consequence, it was said, of a bite she received from a dog
while slipping through the key-hole of her own door in the
shape of a hare. AJL
Witch Box Found at Bramlet. — The following description
of a Witch Box found at Bramley, on January 18th, 1878, is
given as recorded in the Pudsey and Stanningley News, January
17th, 1878. "A Belie of the Past.— On Monday, in taking
down some old buildings at Bramley, a curiosity in the shape
of a 'witch box* was found secreted on the top of an oaken
beam in the roof. The box is in a good state of preservation,
neatly lined, and contains a rusty nail wrapped in cotton wick,
and about half a dozen pins in an upright position, with a little
sparse cotton wick for the use of the witches. Behind the door
of the house was nailed an old horseshoe, which was formerly
considered to be a charm against witches: The box is in the
possession of Mr. J. Dawson, postmaster." 8.B.
The Golden Ball : A Yorkshire Tale. — There were once
two lasses, the daughters of one mother, an' as they came home
thro' t' fair, they saw a reight bonny young man standing i' t'
haase door afore 'em. They niver seed sich a bonny man afore.
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Be'd gold on his cap, an' gold on his finger, gold on his neck,
an* a red gold watah-chain — eh I but he had some brass. He
had a golden ball in each hand. An* he gave a ball to each
lass, an' she was to keep it, an' if she lost it she was to be
hanged. . One o' t' lasses, youngest one, lost her ball. I'll tell
how she lost it. She was by a park paling, as she was tossing
her ball, an' it went up, an1 up, an' up, till it went fair over t'
paling, an' when she went ta leuk for it, ball ran along green
grass, an* it went reight forrud to t' door o' t' haase, anv tv ball
went in an' she saw it no more. So she were taken away to be
hanged be t' neck becos. she'd lost her ball. But she had a
sweetheart, an' he said he would get her ball. So he went to
t' park gate, but it were shut, so he climbed a hedge, an' when
he got atop o' t' hedge, an old woman gate up aat o' t' dike
afore him, an' she said if he would get the ball, he mud sleep
three nights i' t' haase, so he said he would. Then he went
into t' haase an' looked for t' ball, but couldn't find it. Night
came on, an' he heard spirits moving i' t' courtyard, so he
looked aat o' t' window, an' t' yard were as full on em' as
maggots i' rotten meat. Then he heard steps coming upstairs.
He hid behind a door, an' was as still as a maase. Then in
came a big giant, five times as tall as he were, an' the giant
looked raand but didn't see t' lad, so he went to t' window, and
bent down to look out ; an' as he bent down on his elbows to
see t' spirits i' t' yard, t' lad com behind him, and wi' one blow
of his sword, cut him in tew, an' t' top part of him fell into t'
yard, an' t' bottom part stood looking aat o' t' window. There
was a great cry from t' spirits i' t' yard when they saw half
their master come tumbling down, an' they called out, " There
cornea half our master, give us t' other half."
So the lad said, "It's no use o' thee, thou pair o' legs,
standing aloan, as thou has no e'en to see with, so go join thy
brother ; " an' he threw the bottom part o' t' giant after t' top
part. So when the spirits hed gotten all their giant, they were
quiet. Next night the lad was at the haase again, an' now a
second giant came in at the door, an' as he came in the lad cut
him i' two ; but the legs walked on to t' chimney, an' went up
it. " Go get thee after thy legs," said the lad, to t' head, an'
he threw t' head up t' chimney too. The third night the lad
gate into bed, an' he heard spirits striving under the bed, an'
they had the ball there, an' they were casting here an' there
under the bed. NoW one of them has his leg thrussen aat from
under t' bed, so t' lad brings his sword daan an' cuts it off.
Then another thrusts his arm aat at the other side o' the bed,
an' V lad cuts that off. So at last he had maimed 'em all, an'
they all went crying an' wailing off, an' forgot the ball, but he
took it from under the bed, an' went to seek his true love.
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Now t' lass was taken to Tork to be hanged, and she was
brought oat on to the scaffold, an' the hangman said — "Naa,
lass, thaa man get ready to be hanged be the neek till thaa
beest dead," but she cried out —
" Stop, stop ; I think I see my mother coming.
Oh ! mother, have you got my golden ball,
An' are you come to set me free ?"
" I've neither got tby golden ball.
Nor come to set thee free,
Bat I have come to see thee hong
Upon this gallows-tree."
Then the hangman said — " Naa, lass, say thi prayers, witha,
for thaa man dee." Bat she said —
" Stop, stop ; I think I see my father coming.
Oh ! father, hast thou got my golden ball,
An' come to set me free ? "
" I've neither brought thy golden ball,
Nor come to set thee free,
But I have come to see thee hung
Upon this gallows-tree."
Then the hangman said — " Hast done thi prayers, lass ; come
now, put thy head into t' noose." But she said — " Stop, stop;"
and she excused herself because she thought she saw her
brother, and her sister, and her uncle, and her aunt, and then
her cousin, coming to save her. Then the hangman said — " I
wean't stop no longer; thaa's makking gam' o' ma. Thaa man
be hung at once." But now she saw her sweetheart coming
through the crowd, and he held over his head, up in the air,
the golden ball, so she said —
" Stop, stop ; I see my sweetheart coming.
Sweetheart, hast thou brought my golden ball,
An' come to set me free ? "
" Aye, I have brought thy golden ball,
And come to set thee free ;
I have not come to see thee hung
Upon the gallows-tree."
Suoh were the tales which delighted, or frightened, our ances-
tors in Yorkshire. A. Holeotd.
Sheffield Folk-lobe. — Mr. Charles Beade, in his Sheffield
story, " Put Yourself in His Place," gives a lot of interesting
folk-lore, some of which I quote. The ill-luck attendant on, or
rather proceeding from, the meeting with a magpie, is widely
known, but this following particular I never heard of until I
saw it in the above-namad story. The magpie, according to
Sheffield lore, is " the only bird that wouldn't go into the ark
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with Noah and his folk." " She " (the magpie) " liked better
to perch on the roof of th' ark, ana jabber over the drowning
world. So ever after that, when a magpie flies across, turn back
or look to meet ill-lack." Certainly a most curious reason why
the magpie is an unlucky bird, and a reason which I fancy was
unknown until produced in Mr. Beade's book. If any of your
readers can attest from their own observation the fact of this
lore being current in Sheffield, I hope they will do so. A magpie
rhyme familiar to me when a child runs —
One's a sign o' bad luck,
Two's a sign o' good,
Three's a sign o' a broken leg,
And four a sign o' a weddin'.
We spat, and made the sign of the Cross either in the air with
our forefinger, or on the ground with our toes. This was to
drive away the evil influence of one magpie. The following
form of adjuration is known in Yorkshire villages a dozen miles
from Sheffield, but I first heard it at Eakring, in Notts. If you
meet a magpie cross yourself, and say —
I cross one magpie,
And one magpie cross me ;
May the devU take the magpie,
And God take me.
The general opinion is that odd numbers of magpies are bad ;
even numbers are good. A number of magpies " chattering "
is a bad sign. They are talking of a death, or settling who
shall die next. But the oddest magpie rhyme I ever met with
was given by a North Notts lady : —
One for sorrow,
Two for mirth,
Three for a wedding,
Four for a birth ;
Five for a parson,
Six for a clerk,
Seven for a babe
Buried in the dark.
Another ending is —
Five for England,
Six for France,
Seven for a fiddler,
Eight for a dance.
Mr. Beade says : — " If a girl was in church when her banns were
cried, her children would all be born deaf and dumb." This is
believed, too, in Derbyshire, where they say if a girl do such
&n improper thing, " she is darring it out ! " To see a flight of
birds when on the way to be married is a good sign, if to have
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a dozen children is good, for a flight of birds going in your
direction when on the way to matrimony foretells many chil-
dren, bnt a flight of birds meeting yon is a sign of bad lack.
To have a funeral cross your path on the wedding day foretells
the death of one of the contracting parties within a year. To
marry without changing the name, or even so as the new in*
itials are the same as the old, is bad, for —
If yon change the name and not the letter,
You change for the worse and not for the better —
a rhyme known widely. For the sun to emerge suddenly from
a cloud and shine on the couple kneeling before the altar
promises a life happy and prosperous.
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
" If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before supper," is a
local1 saying, how true hundreds can attest.
Mr. Beade also speaks of "Gabriel-hounds," called by one of
his characters " Gabble-re tchet." These, the local lore says,
"are not hounds at all; they are the souls of unbaptised
children, wandering in the air till the day of judgment." This
is a most curious bit, not, however, confined to this locality. I
should be glad to hear what any of your correspondents ma;
be able to say in the matter of " Gabriel-hounds."
Thomas Ratcliffe.
The following is from the Yorlattere Magazine : — " It is some-
what surprising to find in this, the nineteenth century, to
what a large extent silly superstition prevails in the every-day
life of a great mass of the people ; how it is mixed up in the
common daily conversation. For instance, one has often heard
" I would not go on Friday, because it isn't lucky." If going
on a journey, " Don't turn back, because there's no luck after
it." If there is a leafy smut shaking on your fire-grate, "then
it's a stranger about to visit you." Does a cinder fly out of the
fire with a hollow side, " then it's a coffin for you." If a corpse
retains a soft fleshy feeling until the funeral, " then there will
be another death among the near relatives of the deceased
before a long time elapses." Do you break a looking-glass,
4 'then there is trouble in store for you." (I should think so,
particularly if it be a costly one, and not your own.) Have
you heard the ticking of a spider, of course it's " the death
watch ; " or the howling of a dog during the night, then some
one near you is going to die. (Very likely, if you reside in a
populous locality.} I lately heard a person say, " They say be
couldn't die easy oecause he was laid on a feather bed." Some-
times it is a feather pillow that is blamed. Sometimes old
people will say, " You will never be able to raise that child,
because it has a blue vein on its nose." Many persons will
not give a light during Christmas time, because it is unlucky
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to do so. If you have money in yonr pocket when yon hear
the cuckoo for the first time in the season, " then you will be
lucky daring the year." To spill salt is a sign of sorrow in
store for yon. To have crickets in yonr house is a lucky sign.
I have heard of one family who gathered up all they could find,
(and they had a large lot of them), and took them with them
when they removed from ope house to another. If you bathe
in the sea, be sure and bathe an odd number of times, and also
duck yourselves an odd number of times at each bath, if you
don't it is unlucky. S.B.
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Living in History. — A story is told of a soldier, who, when
entering one of the European battles, was so terrified with the
rattle of musketry and the noise of war, that he ran behind a
tree or some other hiding place, saying that " if they went on
in that way some one would be killed." His comrade said to
him — " Gome on ! Be a hero, and we shall live in history." To
this the man replied, " I don't want to live in history. I want
to live i' Pudsey." S.B.
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The 8ibter6 of Beverley. — (In the south aisle of the nave
of Beverley Minster is an altar tomb, covered with a slab of
Purbeck marble, placed under a groined canopy, adorned with
pinnacles and surmounted with figures, without inscription, or
indeed anything to lead to a knowledge of its occupants. Tra-
dition assigns it to two maiden sisters (daughters of Earl Puch,
of Bishop Burton, and in whose household St. John of Beverley
is said, on the authority of Bede, to have effected a miraculous
cure), who are said to have given two common pastures to the
freemen of Beverley. — Paulson's Beverlac.)
The tapers are blazing, the mass is sung
In the chapel of Beverley,
And merrily too the bells have rung ;
'Tis the eve of our Lord's nativity ;
And the holy maids are kneeling round, [ground.
While the moon shines bright on the hallow'd
• Tes, the sky is clear, and the stars are bright,
And the air is hushed and mild ;
Befitting well the holy night,
When o'er Judah's mountains wild
The mystic star blazed bright and free,
And sweet rang the heavenly minstrelsy.
The nuns have risen through the oloister dim,
Each seeks her lonely cell ;
To pray alone till the joyful hymn
On the midnight breeze shall swell ;
And all are gone save two sisters fair,
Who stand in the moonlight silent there.
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Now hand in hand, through the shadowy aisle,
Like airy things they've passed,
With noiseless step, and with gentle smile,
And meek eyes heavenward cast ;
Like things too pure upon earth to stay,
They have fled like a vision of light away.
And again the merry bells have rung,
So sweet through the starry sky ;
For the midnight mass hath this night been sung,
And the chalice is lifted high,
And the nuns are kneeling in holiest prayer,
Yes, all, save these meek-eyed sisters fair.
Then up rose the abbess, she sought around,
But in vain, for these gentle maids ;
They were ever the first at the mass bell's sound.
Have they fled these holy shades ?
Or can they be numbered among the dead ?
Oh ! whither can these fair maids be fled ?
The snows have melted, the fields are green,
The Cuckoo singeth loud,
The flowers are budding, the sunny sheen
Beams bright through the parted cloud,
And maidens are gathering the sweet breath'd May,
But these gentle sisters, oh, where are they?
The summer is come in rosy pride,
'Tis the eve of the blessed Saint John,
And the holy nuns after vespertide,
All forth from the chapel are gone ;
While to taste the cool of the evening hour,
s The abbess hath sought the topmost tower.
" Gramercy sweet ladye 1 and can it be,
The long lost sisters fair
On the threshold lie calm and silently,
As in holiest slumber there !
Yet sleep they not, but entranced they lie,
With lifted" hands and heavenward eye."
" 0 long lost maidens, arise ! arise 1
Say when did you hither stray ? " [eves,
They have turned to the abbess with their meek bine
" Not an hour has passed away,
But glorious visions our eyes have seen ;
Oh sure in the kingdom of heaven we've been ! "
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 101
There is joy in the convent of Beverley,
Now these saintly maidens are found,
And to hear their story right wonderingly,
The nuns have gathered around
The long lost maidens, to whom was given
To live so long the life of heaven.
And again the chapel bell is rung,
And all to the altar repair,
And sweetly the midnight lauds are sung,
By the sainted sisters there ;
While their heaven-taught voices softly rise
Like an incense cloud to the silent skies.
The maidens have risen, with noiseless tread
They glide o'er the marble floor ;
They seek the abbess with bended head —
" Thy blessing we would implore,
Dear mother ? for ere the coming day
Shall burst into light, we must hence away."
The abbess hath lifted her gentle hands,
And the words of peace hath said,
0 vade in pacem, aghast she stands,
Have their innocent spirits fled ?
Yes, side by side lie these maidens fair,
Like two wreaths of snow in the moonlight there. .
List ! list f the sweet peal of the convent bells,
They are rung by no earthly hand :
And hark how far off melody swells
Of the joyful angel band,
Who hover around surpassingly bright,
And the chapel is bathed in rosy light.
'Tis o'er ! side by side in the chapel fair,
Are the sainted maidens laid ;
With their snowy brow, and their glossy hair,
They look not like the dead ;
Fifty summers have come and passed away,
But their loveliness knoweth no decay !
And many a chaplet of flowers is hung,
And many a bead told there,
And many a hymn of praise is sung,
And many a low-breathed prayer ;
And many a pilgrim bends the knee
At the shrine of the sisters of Beverley.
(After considerable trouble I have failed to discover the
Author of the foregoing charming lines, which first appeared
JO the Literary Gazette. If any reader can name the writer, I
dull feel greatly obliged. W. Andrews. )
102
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Ballad of Old Job Senior: the Hermit of Bombalds
Moor.
On Bomilies Moor a Hermit dwells,
Who is infirm and old ;
His sod-built cot so poor and mean,
Will scarce keep out the cold.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 108
He seems contented with his lot,
Though scanty is his fare,
And health sits smiling on his cheek,
Fanned by the mountain air.
He joins the lark in cheerful song,
Which 8oales the mountains high,
And floats along the lonely plain,
And echoes through the sky.
From every quarter thousands come,
To visit where he dwells :
Entranced they sit upon the turf,
And list the tales he tells.
The moor-game linger on the broom,
As if his voice they knew ;
The pewits whistle round the spot,
Likewise the wild curlew.
The plovers float around the place,
And whirl in circles light,
The Hermit views them as they pass,
And gazes with delight.
Hard was the fate of poor old Job,
They pulled his cottage down :
I do not know the reason why,
Perhaps it was some clown.
How hard and callous was that heart,
Of adament or steel 1
A bed of straw is now his lot,
And sad his scanty meal.
All ye that dwell in splendid halls,
And rest on beds of down,
Remember Job before too late,
For he is quite forlorn.
He's hastening fast unto his grave,
For seventy years he's past ;
And when he leaves the moorland cot,
And when he breathes his last,
May some kind angel guard him home,
And waft him through the sky,
To join the heavenly choir above,
No longer here to sigh.
Kind friends and neighbours round this place,
Gome read these verses o'er,
And then remember poor old Job,
The Hermit of the Moor.
104 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
When he is carried to his tomb,
And storms roll round the spot,
Many will gaze and then exclaim,
" This was the Hermit's lot,"
But like the seed of Adam's race.
We all must pass away ;
Those that live long, how short their time !
And transient is their day !
This old Hermit, whom I have seen, lived by begging in his
latter years ; but being taken ill on one of his journeys to
Silsden, he with great difficulty got back to Ukley, and took up
his abode in the barn belonging to the Wheat Sheaf Inn, but in
the course of a few days the landlord was afraid his end was
near, so he had him removed to Carlton Workhouse, where he
died, being seventy-seven years of age; and was buried in
Burley Churchyard, near Otley.
Notices of Old Job appear in "Old Yorkshire," "Ilklev
Ancient and Modern," and in a pamphlet published by Mr. T.
Harrison, Bingley, who kindly lends the accompanying wood-
cut. A.H.
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BY T. TlNDALL WlLDBIDOK.
From, at latest, the times of the Roman Empire, cities had
their particular emblems, whioh they might and often did apply
to the various purposes of coat of arms and seal. The use of
such emblems, however, by medifflval incorporations is of com-
paratively late introduction in this country and is naturally
coeval with the successive establishment of boroughs under the
later Normans, and followed in its development the growth of
personal coat-armour.
The Seals of the town of Eingston-upon-Hull are numerous.
The earliest mention is in Richard H's. Charter of 1882, which
grants that the Burgesses "may have for ever in the same
borough our certain seal, to be ordained by us, of two pieces,
as is the custom, for accepting the recognizances of debt there
according to the statutes passed for merchants, and that the
S eater piece of the same shall remain in the custody of the
ayor or Warden of the Borough for the time being, and the
lesser piece in the custody of a certain clerk by us, etc.,
deputed."
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this article, but that sheet being worked off, the Editor Tentnres to place it
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Neither this seal, nor any impression of it, remains. It was,
however, merely a seal of 'statute merchant' and not a town's
official seal.*
The town's own official seal dates from 1881, when the
elective office of Mayor was here first established. This seal
bears the three crowns of Hull.t
♦Such seals are for different reigns very much alike, and only
vary essentially in the names of the town. Some Hull records
bear seals of statute merchant
of York. The annexed engrav-
ing is of Chester and shews us
what the Hull seal granted in
1882 would be like. The men-
tion of the greater piece and
the less is explained by the
fact that the reverse of most
seals of statute merchant bear
a very small and simple device.
The crown of the King (proba-
bly Edward III.) in this cut
affords an illustration to follow-
ing paragraphs.
Seal of SUttite Merchant.
|T he Borough was
granted a Corporate
Body in 1440, go from
that year only can
date its common seal.
Hull had also a pri-
vate seal which like
that of mofit port-
towns bore a ship. Its
only known instance
of use is in 1348*
Private Seal.
"Sigillvm Coinvne de Kyngiston
svper Hvh."
Common Seal.
106 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Concerning these crowns the local mind has been frequently
exercised, and various attempts have been made to dear the
fog of uncertainty which hung over them. The Corporation
have an emblazonment of Arms from the Herald's College,
affirming the crowns to be Ducal. I propose to shew that this
is an error. The only authority of the college (by its Windsor
Herald and Registrar,) was a drawing of the seal of the Cor-
poration allowed in the Herald's Visitation of Yorkshire in
1612 and 1665-6. The following is the amount of information
therein contained —
"This is the figure of the Com'on Seale of the Mayoraltie
Of KlNOSTON-UPON-HuiiL."
The remainder of the record consists of an abstract of the
governing charter of the town, of 1661, and the names of the
Corporation in 1665.
The Registrar, in a letter to G. C. Roberts, Esq., says—
" There is no doubt that they are Ducal crowns and not Royal
ones ; the field of the arms is not denoted in the sketch ; I
observe in that which you use the field is blue, but I can find
no authority for the Colour." Hence the emblazonment of
arms supplied by the College is of no value. — The seal is not
the Common Seal, the crowns are wrongly described, and the
colours are unknown. Again, Stephen Tucker, Esq., (Rouge
Croix,) upon the occasion of the Hull arms being required for a
banner used at the Reception of the Prince and Princess of
Wales at Sheffield in 1875, said " The Coronets are not strictly
Ducal Coronets but of the form known as "Edward Ills'."
Thus doctors differ.
" S' officii Majoratus Ville de Kyngestoun super Hull."
Mayor's Official Seal, as drawn in the HeraltFs Visitation above-mention**
and met npon old deeds-
It is, however, fortunately not necessary to rely upon the
conflicting and almost necessarily meagre authority to be found
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
107
among the national armorial collection, for the Record-rooms
of Holt itself supply more fall and trustworthy particulars. To
ascertain what was the kind of coronet or crown and what the
colour of the shield intended, it is necessary to refer, as in the
case of most of the ancient privileges of the town, to the
Charters. The Charters of Hull, upwards of 80 in number,
include two which furnish drawings of the arms of the Town.
The first instance is perhaps one of the most interesting
drawings of the kind extant. It is a little illumination in the
margin of the Charter of Henry VI., of 1448, and coloured ex-
actly as shewn in the engraving. An angel with an aureola
bears an azure shield upon which are three crowns of gold
placed two and one. The initial letter of the Charter is likewise
illuminated and contained a representation of the King, and
which also is here engraved. It will* be seen that the crowns
upon the shields are the same as that which adorns the head of
the king. Crowns are frequent initial ornaments of the Hull
Charters and always of the same form as the crowns of the
shield.
Can anything more be
asked? If so first must be
explained away the very evi-
dent connection between the
presence of the crowns and
the name of the town; —
" King's Town upon Hull,"
" Ville Regie," as the legend
runs upon the seal of the
Admiral of the Humber.
What, too, does the quaint
distich mean, which was
painted up in the old Gram-
mar School, and which pro-
bably dates from the wars
S' Admirallitat' ville Regie de Hul. of the Roses when Hull was
Seal of the Admiral of the Humber bold in the cause of Henry VI,
appointed 1447. who granted it 7 Charters ?
" 0 well-built Royal Town, thou hast three crowns,
Therefore love the king thy benefactor."
Thus probabilty agrees with fact.
It cannot be overlooked that the shield in this Charter has
the crowns two and one. This is doubtless a liberty taken by
"the London Artist," and possibly considered by him to be
quite an allowable deviation, or perhaps the now recognised
form is less correct. We err sometimes in imagining the me-
diaeval herald to have been bound by rigid exactness, and are
apt to evolve a pretty modern system out of a mediaeval chance
medley.
108 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
The other Charter which bears the arms is that of 24 Henry
Yin, which at the headline has a crowned Tudor rose in the
centre, supported on one side by the lily of France and on the
other by the three crowns of Hull, one above another as now
used, all not very skilfully sketched in a reddish-brown ink.
Long before arms came to be painted on shields the Angles
are said to have borne three crowns upon their banner. Placed
two and one they are the arms of Sweden, and in various com-
binations appear on the shields of many of her towns. The
German towns yield one or two examples. In England, Hull
is not the only town bearing them, as Bury St. Edmund's has
the same, and Boston also, the latter by adoption among her
other insignia in, it is said, the year 1568. They are also borne
as in the Hull shield, silver on black by the Bishop of Bristol ;
gold on a blue shield, with an open book, by the University of
Oxford ; and two and one, silver on red, by the Bishop of Ely ;
and gold on red upon a cross, by the Borough of Nottingham.
The family of Frazer bears them two and one.
The number of crowns has possibly no more meaning than is
usual in heraldry ; the origin of armory was intermixed with
religious ideas and the reason we find nearly everything " in
threes" is that the first users wished to indicate and invoke the
Trinity. The Church of Hull was dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
The Town arms in modern representations are frequently shewn
with supporters of rushes (for its river situation) and laurel
(for its honour). Sometimes oak leaves take the place of the
rushes. There seems, however, to be no ancient authority for
any of these, and they, with a suitable motto, might very fitly
be adopted by the Corporation. It can well be supposed that
the Lancastrian couplet before quoted was intended as a town's
motto. But the stormy changes of dynasty which from time to
time have taken place, and the varying loyalty of the town, have
shewn it to be one not suited to all times, and therefore, very
fitly lapsed into the realms of oblivion.
To suggest what might suitably be adopted opens a wide if
not very important question.
„. * <* », Aame, three Roj»I
Kingston-upon-Hull. Ciowm or.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 109
CoUter-Vale tHRorbs. — (ronihuwb.)
Cah, cow. Cawf, mutty-cawf, calf.
Cahcummer, cowcummer, encumber.
Cali-lady, cow-lady, the lady-bird beetle. Held in veneration.
" Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home."
Catting, ailing, weakly.
Caise, kecks, boys make music-pipes of them.
Caitiff, sickly, helpless.
Cat-rigg'd, doth which by lying too long in the fuller's stocks,
receives folds or ridges. (Watson.)
Candler, chandler.
Candlesticks or castles, a boys' game. Two piles of stones, a
score yards apart, with equal number of boys at each pile.
Each throws a stone to knock the opposite castle down,
and if one succeeds, his party has to run backwards way
as far as possible, pursued by the opponents who have to
ride their conquerors to the fallen castle.
Cained, the white substance on the top of bottled ale. (Watson.)
Cart-gate, road-way for carts.
Cant, nimble, spoken of vigorous old people.
Causey, causeway.
Capper, puzzler, chief. Capping, astonishing.
Casement, a pane in a window that opens on hinges.
Cahrin', cowering, bending, hiding, coiled.
Cal, kal, gossipper.
Call, to scold. A call, a need.
Cakes, unites in a mass, cinders (verb).
Cammeril, a strong notched stick used by butchers, especially
noted as the professional staff of the old itinerant pig-
butchers. It was pushed through the ham strings of the
animal's hind legs, and thus hung in the cottage until the
next day — the ' cutting-up day.'
Can, tin vessel.
Cappfl, a leather patch on a shoe.
Carcass, body of human being or beast, dead or alive.
Cat nut, hairy nut, earth nut. Catstones, steps near a wood.
Cawf-lickt, front hair or * toppin ' which will not lie straight.
Ceel, keel, cooil, cool.
Cestern, cistern.
Chez, ches, choose, ches what, i.e., whatsoever happens.
Chavel, chewing, tearing to shreds.
Charity Sermon, Sunday School Anniversary Sermon.
Childer, children.
Cham'er height, two storey houses, a grander house than the
'one-decker' cottage.
Cheltered, clotted, (Banks' Wakefield Words.)
Chimley, ohiznney.
110 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Chonce, chance, illegitimate child.
Chowl, jowl, jaw, cheek to chowl, whispering.
Chump heead, stupid person.
Chumps, * prog ', wood for bonfire, Nov. 5th.
Chuck, throw.
Chuck up, chock full, crammed full.
Claht, clout, cloth, old rags. A claht, a knock on the head
given by a person. A claht heead, silly person, who
deserves a ' claht.' Clahted, patched.
Clumpst, unhandy, (Watson.) Clumsy, awkward.
Clack, talk, noise.
Claggy, clayey, sticky.
Clammed, pined. Saxon, ' clam.*
Click, catch hold. Saxon, * gelecan.' Also the tick of a watch.
Clawk, scratch with finger nails.
Clap-panie, clap-pandies, close hands. The p is added to give
fluency, as in l Georgy porgie,' ' Ridy pidy,' and the t in
' a-t-il,' (French), and the n in ' a norange,' < a napple.'
Clawmin, clawing, sometimes means fondling.
Cleats, Foal or colt's foot, from which a wine is made to purify
the blood.
Clew, a ball of string.
Cletch, a brood of chickens.
Clock, a beetle, also the ' cluck ' or cry of a hen. " War net a
clockin' hen."
Cluther, to crowd.
Cobble-stones, small round boulders.
Cobblin, large pieces of coal ; sleek is the small or smudge,
turlings, the small pieces between sleek and cobblins.
Cock-bo&t ; "ride a cock horse ;" as in names — Wilcock, Laycock,
it means "little."
Cockloft. — " He alwaies spent every afternoon in his chamber,
which was a cocklelo/t over the common gate of Trinity
College." 1645. " A museum of invaluable objects ac-
tually thrust into a dusty cockloft, 106 steps up." 1885.—
Mr. John Holmes, Leeds.
Cockelty, shaky.
Cock-web, cob-web, arrand-web.
Coddle, taking care, or overmuch care.
Coils, used in plural in " fotch some coils in."
Covered, recovered.
Colon, stalks of furze bushes, which remain after burning.—
(Watson.)
Cole, broth. So called because pottage was formerly made
chiefly of the herb colewort. (Watson.) Nettle broth is
called Nettle cole.
Collops, rashers of bacon. Collop Monday is the day before
Shrove Tuesday. Children go round begging dices of
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. Ill
bacon, saying "Pray, deem a oollop," or, "Pray, Dame,
[give us] a collop."
Cop, catch, also receive. " Thou'll cop it."
Come day, gooah day. " Let the day come and go," that is,
heedless.
Cos, because.
Cotteril, a flat pin, usually split, to slip into a bolt hole to
fasten windows, shutters, &c. (Banks.)
Cowk, cinder, also the core of an apple, and used in the words
" Keep thy cowk up," to mean the spirit or heart.
Cowl, to scrape together.
Cowlrake, coal-rake, the instrument to cowl with.
Crag, a rocky place. This is needlessly given by Watson, for
it is known in all districts populated by the Northmen.
Creg will be found in the Manx New Testament, Matt, xvi,
18, reads— "Dy nee uss Peddyr* as dy nee er y chreg shoh
trog-ym's my agglish : (*Ta shen dy ghra, Creg.)" Upon
this rock. " On this Creg will I build my Church."
Crack, boast ; used thus by Tillotson. ' A Crack shot,' a good
marksman.
Cratch, a wooden frame on which pigs are killed.
Cratchy, cranky, infirm, stiff in the joints.
Croft, enclosed field, homestead field.
Creel, wooden frame or flake suspended from the ceiling on
which the oat-bread (haver-cake,) was placed to dry for
future use.
Cree, soften by steeping or soaking, as rice for puddings, wheat
for " frummety " ^Latin, frumentis, wheat.)
Crab'd, cross-grained, ill-tempered.
Cracklin, brittle as ice under foot, also " Crackling of thorns
under a pot." (Solomon.)
Cransh, crush, cransning cinders under feet.
Crackt, crazy, " a slate off."
Craps, scraps, pig-craps, the skinny meat remaining after the
fat-leaf is " rendered."
Crate, a hamper for pots, &c.
Creas, measles. (Watson.)
Creese, " unnatural fold as in a coat that has been sitten upon."
(Watson.) Crumpled, rumpled. f
Cresh, cress, watercress.
Crow, Craw to pull, quarrel to adjust. The Townley Mystery
has— " Abelle. I will fayre." [Go.] "Cayn. Na, na,
abide, we have a craw to pulle." (Banks.)
CresBmass, Eersmiss, Christmas.
Cresaen, Eersen, christen, baptize.
Crick, pain or twisting the neck. (Wakefield.)
Craddled, curdled, clotted.
Crooidl'd crok'd, lying or sitting doubled up.
112 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Crowd, a fiddle, only used in the saying " There's nobody born
fiddlers but t' Craathers," that is, the Crowthers. This is
a saying heard about Brighouse where the Crowther family
is numerous, and they got their name from a fiddling
ancestor. The moral is " Attempt something, for few are
geniuses, or to the manner born."
Cuddle, to embrace with the arms.
Cumberly, heavy, lumberly.
Curchy, curtsey. " The dame made a curchy."
Gurns, cum berries, currants.
Cushy-Cah, Gush : Cows are called to the gate by the latter
word. Children are taught to say cushy-cow as if to a pet
animal.
Oussen, cast iron, a person in the dumps ; cnssen ground is
applied to a filled-up quarry ; oussen sky, heavy clouds.
Out, run off, as " Out an* run," " Cut your sticks." The Cut
is the canal. Out, castrated.
Cute, smart, clever fellow.
Daahtalman, day labourer. Wakefield district.
Daazd, unconscious, dull ; also bread slowly baked, white.
Dab, a daub, to daub.
Daffy dahn dilly, daffodil.
Dafft, daunted, discouraged ; also a semi-idiot.
Dagger, a vulgar expression for emphasis,—" What the dagger
do you mean." (Watson.) Still used.
Dahn i't' raahth, dahn-hearted, dejected.
Dam-stakes, dam-stuns, mill dam-stones.
Dawdle, idle, thriftless person ; also used as a verb.
Dawkin, an idle slothful person. " There is this proverb here—
* A man had better have a Dule than a Dawkin,* meaning
that a woman with a bad tongue is a less evil than an idle
one, or a slut." (Watson.)
Dee, die. " Sud he not de." (Douglas.)
Dee-nettles, stingless nettles. (Banks.)
Delf case, a wooden frame containing shelves, with a lath
nailed above each, for holding dinner plates edgeways. It
is so called from Delft in Holland, where much crockery
was made.
Delf, delf-hoil, a qnarry. Delver, a quarry-man. (Saxon.)
Dickey, a * front ' worn over the shirt-breast. Seat for the
carriage-driver. A louse.
Dickey-dunnock, a hedge sparrow.
Differ, to quarrel.
Dilly-hoil, a little play-house for children.
Dike, a bank of earth for a fence ; also a ditch.
Din, talk, noise.
Ding one up, reproach.
Disannul, annoy, interfere with. (Banks.)
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 11&
Dither, tremble, shake, Caused by cold or fear. Dithered
ageean means dithered much.
Divels, Devils, Divlin, a small cone of gunpowder which, being
worked up wet, fizzes slowly.
Dizzy, giddy. " Dizziness in the head/' tautology.
Doaf, dough. Doafy, childish, soft. Doughy breead is imper-
fectly baked bread.
Daddy, Welsh, dad, father.
Dog-noper, sexton, ohapel-keeper ; though he has no longer to
4 nope ' (hit on the head,) dogs.
Dalley, tarry, delay. ? French origin.
Daker hen, grass drake, corn-crake.
Doff, undress, do-off; dofft, undressed. Doff it off thy sen,
take it off thyself.
Dick's hat-band. " Tha'rt as queer as Dick's hat-band, et went
nine times rahnd and wouldn't tee."
Dockens, docks ; a case of double plural. Children when stung
by a nettle, get a dock leaf, and, rubbing the irritated
place, say the nomine " Docken in, nettle out," as fast as
possible, until the pain subsides.
Door-steead, door- way; from stead, a place. Gate-steead, gate-
way.
Door-cheeks, upright stones to which the door is fixed.
Doorstuns, flagstones or causeway (pro. causee,) in front of the
house.
Dog-daisy, the large flowered, wild daisy. The leaf is not like
the ordinary daisy ; it is jagged like * lad's love ' leaf.
Dooetin, dotage.
Dollop, a great mass. Dollook is another form.
Doled, wearied, jaded.
Douce, drench. Douoing, drenching.
Doy, pet word for joy when addressed to a child.
Dolly legs, the peggy or swiller, used by washer- women, where,
in Scotland, they would use their own in treading the
clothes in a tub of water. Washing machines are super-
annuating these old friends. It consists of a stout round
piece of wood about 2 feet long, with a cross beam about
18 inches at the top, and a round piece at the bottom (9
inches diameter,) in which five or six feet are placed, abont
a foot long, and all smoothly planed to ' swill ' the clothes
round and back again in the wash tub.
Donch, dainty of appetite.
Doublet, quite obsolete, but singlet is used for waist-coat.
Dossy, slut. What a dossy !
Drahnded, drowned.
Drate, drawling, slow of speech.
Drat, drot, od rot, a form of imprecation. " I'll rot you," or
make you tremble. ? from the Hebrew, rod, to tremble.
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Dredgin box, a tin flour box with holes in the lid, like a pepper
box ; for sprinkling flour.
Drink, ale, or home-brewed beer.
Drinkin time, tea-time, four to six o'clock p.m. Harvest men
are allowed wages per day with fornooin (10 o'clock) and
afternoon (4 o'clock) drinkins.
Drop it, be quiet, * give over ' ; leave it (or me) alone.
Drnkken, druffen, tipsy, drunken.
Drop-dry, water tight roof. (Wakefield.)
Dree work, dree way, wearisome, dreary.
Draff, malt after brewing. Used for food of cows, pigs. Ang.
Sax. draff, thrown away.
Dubler, a pewter (pewther) dish. British dtcbler.
Durn, a piece of wood, or stone, by which doors and gates
hang. (Watson.)
Duck-stooan, a boys' game. Each boy gets a boulder, and one
is chosen by lottery, or footing, to place his boulder (or
duck) on a flat stone, whilst the rest stand at a marked
distance and throw their stones at the sitting duck. If
one picks his boulder up, the boy who owns the imprisoned
duck endeavours to touch him before he can return to the
den, and then hastens to seize his own duck from its perch,
and run off to the den. The boy thus touched has to place
his duck in prison, but if he gets it down before the other
is up, there are two ducks to shy (i.e. throw) at. flow-
ever, it often happens that whilst the boy in charge of the
duck is striving to touch a returning boy, his duck is
knocked off its perch by another boy's boulder, and he
must replace his duck before he can touch any returning
boy. It is a very dangerous game, and seems to be allied
to the * throwing at cocks ' on Pancake Tuesday, formerly
in vogue.
Dufft, yielded. Duffer, a coward, a yielder.
Duberd heead, dull board, or wooden headed, a dunce, a numb-
skull, thick-head.
Dunnock, dicky dunnock, a hedge sparrow ; blue eggs.
Dule, the devil. Also, a machine at woollen mills, with great
iron teeth, a real demon.
Een fair fall, equivalent to " make the best of it " — that which
would have been better not being at hand, een fair fall
(befall) what we have. (Banks.)
Earwig, Saxon — eorth-wigga, earth insect, though the common
notion is that these twinges cause death by entering a
person's ear.
Een, Saxon — eagan, ee,-eye. Old plural for eyes, as shooen,
kine or cowen, swine or sowen, oxen, &c.
Expect, suppose. " I expect so."
EUiker, ale-gar, vin-e-gar. Sour beer.
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EUiker well, now written but never pronounced "Alegar"
well, near Kirklees, a great resort on Palm Sunday to the
present time, one of the holy wells of olden times. Helle-carr,
holy ridge well. (See p. 120.)
Eery, every.
Egg-cratch, frame with holes for holding eggs. (Banks.)
Ehs-senz, our-selves.
Eeah, yes,
Eit, ait, ert.
'Eights, heights or bills ; height.
Eivy-keivy, (Aivy-kaivy), trembling in the balance.
Eke, an addition, or * make-out,' an additional bottom rim to a
bee hive. (Banks.)
Elbow greeas, polishing a table, or iron fixtures, with great
exertion.
Elike, the same, *• Townley Mysteries " has — " They're all
queer elike." " I am ever elyke."
Emang, among.
Em, Hem. Anglo Saxon dative plural, and therefore not a
vulgar contraction, for it is used by early writers in the
old form. "Some of hem," (Chaucer). "Putten hem,"
(Piers Plowman). A Southowram man, (Sahtharem-ur)
uses both words still.
Elsin, an awl. (Banks.)
Enah, soon. " I'll come en ah."
Enew, plural of enough.
Enkled, entangled. (Banks.)
Entry, narrow passage for carts between houses. A narrower
entry is called a ginnel, (or, in Airedale, a snicket).
Eah, ash tree. Saxon — Esche.
Espin, aspin leaf.
Etten, eaten.
Ewen hands, even bargain. " Odd or evven." This is a
guessing game, with marbles. A boy holds a marble or
marbles in his clenched hand; if his opponent guesses
correctly, "odd," or "even," he forfeits a marble, but
gains one if he happen to have different to what is said.
The other boy then takes his turn.
®b* ttfrito in t\)t Wiaab ; or, &\)t and ®ttkie.*
In the town of Beverley, in Yorkshire, about two years ago
[17081 , there lived one squire Somers, a very honest gentleman
of about three hundred per aim.; his wife dying, by whom he
had one little daughter, about two years of age, he continued
some months a sorrowful widower; he could not well enjoy
* From a very rare chapbook, with facsimile wood-cut.
116 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
himself after the loss of his dear spouse. And it so happened
that, partly oat of grief, partly from a violent fever, he was
brought to his bed of sickness, where he continued not long,
for he died within a fortnight after he was taken by that fever.
He expressed a great concern for his little girl, and therefore
called his brother, a gentleman that lived about fourteen miles
from him, and begged him to take the care of his daughter upon
him. " Brother," said he, " I leave with you the dearest thing
that I have in the world — my little daughter, and with her to
you I intrust my estate ; manage it for her use, and take care
of her education in virtue and religion ; use her as if she were
your own, and, for my sake, see her married to an honest
country gentleman." All which was faithfully promised by the
brother. Thus, when all things were settled, the gentleman
dies, and the brother takes home the child to his house, and for
some time used her kindly. But at the last, the devil of covet-
ousness possessed him ; nothing run in his mind so much as
making away with the child, and so possess the estate. After
many ways, he at last concluded to take her with him, and hide
her in a hollow tree ; which one morning he effected, and left
the poor infant with her mouth stopped that she might not cry.
For he had so much grace not actually to murder her, therefore
he left her alive in the hollow of the tree ; and, the better to
hide the matter, gave out that the child was dead, and. therefore
caused an effigy of wax to be made, laid it in a coffin, and a
shroud, and made a great funeral for the child. Thus the effigy
was buried, and no notice at all taken of the matter. At the
same time, a neighbouring gentleman dreamed that that day
he should see something that would sufficiently astonish him.
He told it to his lady, who dissuaded him from going a hunting
that day ; but he was resolved, not giving any oredit to dreams,
and so takes horse in the morning. As he was a hunting, he
happened to be in the wood where the child was, and as he was
riding by the tree bis horse gave a great start, so that he had
liked to have fallen down ; and turning about, to see what was
the matter, he saw something stir in a hole, and being inquisi-
tive to know the cause, his dream presently came in his head,
and therefore he calls his man, and bids him examine what was
in the hole ; who, having searched the tree, discovers the child
in the tree. He took it out, and his master carried it to his
lady almost dead ; he told her his dream was out, declaring how
he found the child, and begged her to take care of it. The child
was revived, and in a little time brought to itself again ; bat
they could not imagine whose it was ; till at last it happened
that some woman came to the gentleman's house, a singing at
Christmas, and seeing the child, knew it, and declared whose it
was, and that it was supposed to be dead and buried. The
gentleman goes and prevails with the minister of the parish to
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have the grave opened, and found the waxen effigy of the child
in the grave. He went to the justice of the peace, to whom he
declared the matter; who sent his warrant for the child's
trustee, who, being convicted of the matter, was not able to
deny it, but confessed all the business. But seeing the child
was alive, it is supposed he will not be tried for his life, but it
is thought a severe punishment will be inflicted on him ; and
the justice appointed the gentleman that found the child to be
its trustee till the assizes. The child is now at the gentleman's
house, who loves it as if it was his own, for he has no* children
himself, and is a man of a good estate, and is likely to augment
very much the child's fortune.
Tune " Forgive me if your looks I thought"
A wealthy squire in the north,
Who left an infant daughter
All his estate of mighty worth ;
But mark what follow'd after.
As he lay on his dying bed,
He calTd his brother to him,
And unto him these words he said :
" I from the world am going ;
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n.
" Therefore, dear brother, take my child,
Which is both young and tender,
And for my sake be kind and mild,
And faithfully defend her.
Three hundred pounds a year I leave
To bring her up in fashion ;
1 hope you will not her deceive,
But use her with compassion.'*
ni.
To which the brother then replied,
"I'll sooner suffer torture,
Than e'er become a wicked guide,
Or wrong your only daughter."
The father then did seem content,
And like a lamb expired,
As thinking nothing could prevent
What he had thus desir'd.
IV,
The father being dead and gone,
The unkle then contrived
To make the child's estate his own,
And of its life deprive it.
A wicked thought came in his head,
i And thus concludes to serve it ;
He takes it up out of the bed
And then resolves to starve it.
With wicked mind, into a wood
He then the infant carries ;
And tho' he would not shed her blood,
Yet there alive he buries
Within a hollow oaken tree ;
He stop'd the mouth from crying,
That none might hear and come to see
How the poor child was dying.
VI.
Then gave he out the child was dead,
And did pretend some sorrow,
And caus'd the shape in wax be made,
To bury on the morrow ;
Some mourning, too, he bought beside,
All to avoid suspicion,
But yet, alas ! this would not hide
The guilt of his commission.
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vn.
For happy fate and providence
Did keep the child from dying,
Whose chiefest guard was innocence,
On which is best relying ;
For when the breath was almost spent,
A gentleman did spy her,
As he and 's man a hunting went
And so approached nigh her.
VIII.
He took the wrong'd infant home,
And to his lady gave it ;
Quoth he, " This child from fatal doom
I happily did save it ;
Therefore I'll keep it as my own,
Since I have none beside it ;
Tho' such a thing is seldom known,
I will support and guide it."
IX.
But as the lady and her spouse
Did to the neighbours show it,
A woman came into the house
That presently did know it.
And soon discovered all the cheat
The unkle had intended,
To get the poor young child's estate
Who promised to defend it.
x.
The wicked unkle being seized,
And charged with his transgression,
His mind and conscience was so teazed,
He made a full confession.
The justice sent him to the jail,
Where he is closely guarded,
And next assizes will not fail
Of being well rewarded.
The Sisterb of Beverley. — Mr. W. Andrews, giving, in
**rt VI, Yorkshire Notes and Queries, a transcript of the
beautiful poem, bearing the above title, says — "After consider-
able trouble, I have failed to discover the author of the fore-
going charming lines which first appeared in the Literary
Gazette. If any reader can name the writer I shall feel greatly
obliged/' In reply to this Query — Mr. Andrews is in error in
apposing that its first appearance was in the Literary Gazette,
**
120 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
where it was given as an extract from a new work. It was
through that Journal that it became more generally known to
the reading world and in consequence of its appearance there,
it was attributed to the pen of Alaric A. Watts, whose style of
writing it resembles, and who was a contributor to the Literary
Gazette, and a much admired Poet of the " Annuals " school,
one of which " The Literary Souvenir," he edited. He was
residing in Leeds at the period in question, from 1822 to 1826-7,
as Editor of the " Leeds Intelligencer." Mr. Watts however was
not the writer of the Poem, which appeared in " London in the
Olden Times: a series of Tales from the 12th to the 15th
century," 1st series p. 191. The work was published anony-
mously and consists of a series of very graphic pictures of the
London of that period, each one with an appendant poem of a
similar character to the above. Lowndes in his Bibliographer's
Manual attributes it to " Miss Lawrence," but who she was and
whether she published anything else, I cannot tell, as I do not
find her name in Allibone, Maunder, or any other collection of
literary Biographies.
London. Fbbdk. Boss.
Palm Sunday Custom. — In some parishes in the West
Biding of Yorkshire there is a custom for the children to go on
Palm Sunday to a particular well in the neighbourhood and
there fill bottles with water, which they afterwards drink,
sweetened with sugarcandy, or flavoured with Spanish juice.
The well to whioh the children thus resort is, in three in-
stances with which I am acquainted, known by the name of
" Sennaca Well." This identity of name seems to point to
some common origin and reason for the custom, of which,
together with the meaning or derivation of the name "Sennaca/'
I shall be glad if any of your readers can furnish an expla-
nation. Can " Sennaca" be a corruption of " Sancta Aqua"
and is this custom a survival from pagan times? or is "Sen-
naca " the garbled name of some saint, to whom the wells in
question were once dedicated ? I am not sure of the spelling
of the word, but it is pronounced like the name of the Roman
philosopher. F. C. Tbiblwall.
169, Gloucester-road. N.W.
We shall be glad to receive any information from our readers
which may help to throw light on this singular custom.
Notable Yorkshire Characters. — " There is probably more
original and independent thought in Yorkshire brains, than in
those of any half dozen other counties in England," was my
hasty exclamation after perusing Mr. Baring-Gould's well known
work, and further reflection confirms the view. The great lack
of his volumes, is Portraits of the individuals whom he graphi-
cally desoribes — a want which I have for many years been
endeavouring to supply, though with but partial success ;
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YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 121
knowledge of any authentic additions will be thankfully ac-
knowledged. I now wish greatly to complete a short biographical
notice of the earliest Bookseller, if not also Stationer, of Rich-
mond town, Isabella Tinkler by name but colloquially termed
44 Tibby Tinkler," the predecessor of Mr. John Bell who was
father to the well known George Bell, long head of the well
known publishing firm of the metropolis. In vain have the
Histories of Richmond been searched for any biographical
notice of the worthy Tibby, but we are assured that some infor-
mation will be found in the Richmond Pictorial Times, published
and I presume printed also, in Bichmond. A complete File of
this Journal, which only appeared for ten years ;— (1850-60) is
probably scarce ; but some of your North Yorkshire readers
may possess, or know of one, and be able to supply the, pro-
bably short, account of the old lady, the memory of whom is
by no means extinct in her native town.
H. Eckoyd Smith.
Advice to Quarry-men and Stone Breakers. — Never break
up a stone that has an artificial hole in it, or bearing old tool
marks. Keep it carefully, as, sooner or later you will find
your advantage ; for if in fair condition the object may fetch
money. Many a pound has been lost through allowing children
to play with and mutilate ancient articles of great interest.
H. Eobotd Smith.
A Yorkshire Bite. — "We have thus given all our unsolicited
contributors a thoroughly hearty Yorkshire welcome ; our motto
in this connection being 4 a fair field and no favour/ it is one
that naturally brings to our remembrance an old and genuine
county term, which having become most scandalously perverted
from its once honourable signification, has been twisted into a
weapon of reproach and contempt. We allude to the term 4 A
Yorkshire Bite.' Every one who has thoroughly examined the
subject must candidly admit that, so far from originating in
any tricky, mean, or dishonourable characteristic, the very reverse
is the case. In fact, 4 A Yorkshire Bite ' is in homely phrase
'the best Vih luniscj or, in other words, the best of the provisions
in the family larder, for the guest or stranger ; and this as a
recognized matter of course and custom. In our opening re-
marks, we have dwelt somewhat on the corruption of proper or
place-names, but, socially speaking, what is this in comparison
with transmuting the sense of an honourable term into one of
scorn, reproach and contumely? In the name of the whole
county we protest against such a shamefully defamatory per-
version of this most creditable and hospitable term, and trust
every one of our readers will use their best endeavours to
counteract the scandal so far as they can, by proclaiming the
truth of the matter when occasion serves." — H. Ecroyd SmWi's
History of Conisboroiigh Castle.
122 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Can any of your readers inform me of the earliest known use
of the curious appellation, smither-eetis, in the sense of the
complete smash of an object ; also whether the term is general
in England, or merely localised. H. Ecboyd Smith.
Some of us can remember eccentric Sunday School Teachers,
as well as local preachers. In the early part of this century
there were established in Saddleworth a number of Sunday
Schools in various districts, wherein were taught— Beading,
Writing and other matters of elementary education. The
scholars were taken in rotation to the various Churches and
Chapels in the parish ; on one occasion at the School in Upper
Mill, a scholar was reading the Scripture Lesson, he came upon
a word he could not pronounce, he appealed to the Teacher who
was in a like difficulty, so he told the lad to " ko it summat
sharp an goo on," the lad immediately called out " Bazzur."
This was so satisfactory that no objection was made.
G.H.A.
©n sonu (Barlg |torksljir* Jtocai |Jr*acIj*rs.
When I was a young man, which would be about 1888, I
used to take great pleasure in going round on the Sundays, to
one Methodist Chapel or another, to listen to the popular
preachers of the time ; many of whom were what were termed
"Looals." These men were generally quite unlearned, and
spoke what they had to say in the broadest of broad Yorkshire
dialect. What they had to say was said in the strongest
fashion, and had a telling effect on the audiences which they
were addressing. All their illustrations and similes were
drawn from humble life ; and being homely, the sentences went
straight to the feelings of those whom they addressed.
The first I shall name was Jonathan Savile, of Denholme,
who died in 1842, between eighty and ninety years of age. He
was wonderfully popular, although a very poor man as to this
world's wealth. -There was also Joshua Northrop, of Clayton,
who is still alive, (1887) at a good old age. He was a weaver
by trade, and during a long life has been respected by all.
Dick Throp, and John Thornton, of Great Horton, were power-
ful for good in their time, and they both had the most powerful
voices I ever heard. I used to tremble when they were speaking.
Eli Crowther, who came from Colne, I think, into this part of
the country, was a draper by trade, and quite untaught. I
remember once going to hear him near White Abbey, Manning-
ham, when he took for a text the words : — The men which have
turned the world upside down, are come hither also." He read
this two or three times over ; then he said, " The first sarmon
that ever I preycht in my life, wor tul a row of peat stacks;
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an' its naa seven years sin. Well, I think I hear some on ye
saying, if I'd preycht as long as ihaa hes, I could preych a
better sarmon nor thaa does. Naa if ony on yo think soa, come
up into this pooilpit, an' try." With that he came down the
steps to the bottom, bat as nobody took up the challenge, he
quietly walked back again. But although he talked for almost
an hour, he never once mentioned his text, or the subject of it,
in all he said afterwards. Another well-known character of
the time, was Esquire Brook, of Huddersfield. He was in great
demand for revival meetings, love-feasts, and chapel openings.
His preaching was not of a very valuable sort, but then he was
reputed to give largely when he was invited out to minister. I
once went to a love feast with two companions, and after we
got to the place we all went in to see the travelling preaoher in
the vestry. We told him we had a great desire to be admitted,
though not members of the society ; and he gave us tickets,
along with a bit of, I dare say, good advice. It was at Wych-
field Chapel, Shelf; and Squire Brook, as they called him
occupied the pulpit. He spoke in quite a ranting manner for
some time, when, one after another, many of the congregation
began to swoon away, and fall down in the seats where they
were. I at first thought it must be caused by the heat of the
chapel, as it was crowded in every part. But I soon found out
that the cause was religious fervour, and excitement. Soon
some of them came round, and began shouting, Glory be to
God, with all their strength. Altogether fifty people were
affected in this way, and a young woman in our pew fell upon
one of my friends as we were sitting there. This lasted for
about two hours, as one after another related what they called,
—"their experience." -Billy Dawson, of Barnbow, (I think
that was the name of the place where he lived) was a very re-
markable man. He was a farmer, and in great demand for
Chapel-opening. Wherever he went crowds ran after him, and
there was often a large congregation in the chapel-yard, of
those who could not get to hear him inside. Some noted man
generally addressed the disappointed ones. I heard Billy preach
a sermon when he opened a chapel at Great Horton, and his
sermon was uttered with great force, in the best Yorkshire
vernacular. It was indeed a rare treat. Another was John
Preston, of Yeadon. All he said was spoken in the purest
dialect of the place he hailed from, and he was the most earnest
man of his day. It was said that his wife always went with
him to every town or village where he preached ; to encourage
and help him ; but he certainly was the most amusing of all the
local men who entered the Wesley an pulpits. The Eccleshill
people adored him, and I am only sorry that I cannot give any
specimens of what he said from my own memory. John Nelson,
Sammy Hick, and Dicky Burdsal, had all passed away before
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my time, but their lives have been written, and can be bought.
Of a later day, Charles Rhodes must not be unmentioned.
From being a poor man, he accumulated money, and spent a
• comfortable old age. It is related of him that once when he
was preaching, he undertook to show his hearers how easy it
was to go to hell, by sliding down the rail of the pulpit stairs.
But wishing afterwards to show how hard it is to climb to
heaven, he made an attempt to scramble up on the rail, but did
not suoceed. He had to go up the steps in the ordinary way.
Thus his illustration broke down, to the amusement of the con-
Segation. But Mr. Rhodes, though uncultivated in manner,
,d his heart in the right place, and has left a happy memory
behind him.
Fifty years ago very few of the people who lived in the
villages of the West Biding of Yorkshire, could either read or
write ; and books were exceedingly scarce in the cottages of the
working people. Hence when a man had received the Gospel,
and was called to preach, and exhort, he had no resources or
learning to fall back upon. But his zeal often helped him to
overcome all the obstacles which crowded his path. Blunders
he would often make, many specimens of which I oould relate ;
but his hearers were no better informed than he himself was;
and being so, they did not notice the blunders which he made.
A few "locals" of the old generation are left. There are of
course "locals" yet in all Dissenting congregations, and it is
not six months since one of them made himself famous by his
flowery language; but ridiculous, also, at the same time, by his
repetition of the term negative several times when he really
meant the affirmative. He was a young man, wishful to show
his learning, and did show it. But Sammy Hick, and Billy
Dawson, and Squire Brooke, and old Casson are dead and gone,
and their peculiar language, their strange idioms, and their
undecorated dialeot speech are gone with them. Many strange
tales are told of their eccentric conduct in the pulpit, and they
all border upon the humorous, as much as the story of t'Clark
o' Beeston, who said "let's begin agean." It was one of the
four above-mentioned who described the broad and the narrow
ways as follows: — " Friends, the road to hell is easy to travel;
as easy as sliding down this rail." Then, after sliding down
the pulpit rail, he stood at the bottom, and to further increase
the interest of the subject as he stood there, he went on with
his discourse to tell how hard in comparison the path of honour
was to travel. "It is just as hard to get to heaven as to get
back up this rail ; " and to further exemplify his discourse he
began to scramble up the rail he had so easily come down ; and
on arriving back in the pulpit panting, he went on with the
subject he had explained in such a homely way. It was such
men who led the revivals up and down the country, and carried
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an enthusiasm with them that better men were unable to do.
The writer recollects a veteran "local*' likening men to ciphers,
which, all added together, came but to another cypher, while God
was the figure one, worth so much in comparison. Not only did
he do this, but on the top of the dusty organ, which reached to
nearly the top of the pulpit, he exemplified his discourse by
making a row of ciphers there. It was, we believe, at Lowmoor
where another such Christian filled the pulpit, and when there
arrived in the doorway a crowd of people, who stared at the
already filled chapel, and seemed lost as to where they oould
sit, heard him call out : — " Make way thear for tf Pudsey chaps,
ye Lowmoorers, an' let tf hauf-crahners come forrad," attend-
ing to the better givers who had come from a distance to hear
him. It is well known that some of these "locals" could draw
crowded houses, and were much in request for anniversary
sermons where a collection followed ; for not only did many
come, but they gave liberally as well, in obedience to the rough
and homely call from the pulpit at tlje close of the sermon.
One yet Eves who in his younger days walked away a few miles
into the country to give a morning sermon. He did not receive
the usual invitation to dinner, and had therefore to walk baok
home to his mid-day meal. But he was revenged upon them
in his own way. His next sermon at that plaoe was an evening
one ; before he began he hung upon the corner of the pulpit an
old torn handkerchief, and at the finish of the sermon, before
the prayer meeting which was to follow, he opened the hand-
kerchief and commenced to eat. " I came," he said, " to preach
one day and had no dinner, so I thought it best to bring some-
thing with me this time." Old Bammy Senior never made an
allusion to Noah but as Mr. Noah; and many others as curious
as he, lived and moved and had their being forty years ago, and
gave their little surpluses to charitable purposes.
What follows appeared recently in a monthly issue of the
Wedeyan Methodist Magazine and confirms what has previously
been said : —
It must be confessed that, from the days of John Nelson
downward, Yorkshire has been distinguished for its powerful
local preachers. Some of them have not been allowed to pass
away without memorial, notably Richard Burdsall, Sammy
Hick, William Dawson, Squire Brook, and John Preston, of
Yeadon, better known to many readers as Johan Preston. For
two intervals of more than a year's duration he was, inju-
diciously, as we think, excluded from the Grove pulpit; the
first time on account of his leading part in Mr. Parker's revival,
the second because of the supposed ill-effect of his rich, though
rough, humour on the lads. For ourselves, we never heard a
syllable from Preston that tended to irreverence. And we have
no hesitation in saying that, in preaching to the young or the
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old, the strong or even rough vernacular is far preferable to
grandiloquent inflation, and that rustic point and power is
much better than a dead level of monotonous respectability.
Give us a man of unlettered genius and true spiritual force
rather than such a one as Jay so happily described: "His only
defect is that he has no excellence, and his only excellence that
he has no defect." Preston's strong originality made him a
great favourite with the boys. It must be confessed that Joh&n
was not seldom irresistibly amusing, especially at the earlier
part of his discourse. Once, before giving out his text, be
looked deprecatingly at his congregation, and said, " Ye mind,
I hope I s'all have a better time wi' this text nor I had t'last
time I tackled it. It wur at Casho (Acacia) Got ; an' I had a
fearful bad time, I promise (assure) you. T'woife wur wi' ineb,
an' I ses tull her at eftur, * It didn't gooah vary weel to-neeght,
lass.' ' Gooah mun ! gooah! ' shoo ses, 'it mudn't weel gooah;
thah niver gat it on its feet.' " But, happily, t'woife knew how
to be encouraging on occasion. Preston's popularity cause*!
him to be in great request for charity sermons. We have heard
the late Rev. W. 0. Booth tell with keen relish of the only time
he ever heard Preston. The occasion was the chapel anniver-
sary sermons at Eccleshill. Mr. Booth, who was immensely
popular, especially in his native neighbourhood, took the
morning and evening, and Preston the afternoon service. The
former hoped to find some corner in the chapel where he might
hear the famous local preacher unobserved. But he found the
place so packed that he was obliged to plead privilege of clergy
and go in through the vestry. On seeing him Preston exclaimed
"Nah, lad, I'se noan bahn to heh thee before meh all t'time.
Thah mun sit behint meh i' t'pulpit." In truth it was the only
seat available. Before Preston gave out his text, he said, " Ye
mind, all t'week t'woife 's been cummin' to me an' saying',
* Johan, what dus ta sit luikin' inti t'fire i' that way for. Its
that lad Oliver Boith thahs fleered on." ' Nah lass,' all ses,
' ah can noan preich like Oliver Boith ; ' an' shoo ses, ( An*
Oliver Boith can't preich like thee.' However, friends, I'se
nobbut gie it a bit rough, ye knaw, an' I sal leave it for this
lad here to snodden it." Then, glancing over his shoulder at
Mr. Booth, " An' a bonnie job thah'd hev, lad." We once saw
and felt an electric effect produced by an irrepressible exclama-
tion from Johan Preston. It was at the opening service at
Woodhouse Grove Chapel, at Apperley Bridge, the great Bobert
Newton being the preacher. The place was so crowded tbat
the boys were bestowed in the vestry, and we happened to sit
so near to the open door step as to command almost the whole
congregation. Bight in front of the preacher,* on a form be-
tween the pews and the pulpit, sat Johan Preston. The text
was, "For wheresoever two or three are gathered together," &c.
YOBKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 127
When the orator came to " There am I in the midst of them,"
he rose to his highest pitch. Preston sat grasping his right
knee with both his hands, swaying with emotion ; and when
the preacher in his grandest tone rolled out, " Yes, however
humble the place, however homely the preacher, « There am 1/ "
Preston took fire — fire which his tears could not put out, and
he half sobbed, half shouted, " Ay, Robbard, that's it." There
was a momentary shock, as if too great a freedom had been
taken. But "Robbard" — himself a Yorkshire villager — bent
his magnificent person, and stretched out towards Preston the
right hand of fellowship, and answered, " Ay, my good brother,
that is it."
The Rev. Robert Newton, who is mentioned above was a very
remarkable man, and a Yorkshireman. He was a splendid
orator, and also well read in Scripture truths, from which he
drew apt illustrations. He died at Easing wold, Yorkshire, on
the 30th of April, 1854. " When the news of his death was
made known at a missionary meeting held the day after, May
1st, man and woman, all over that vast multitude, bowed under
a personal sorrow, and youth and age together dropped a tear.
That moment of silence and grief was such an ovation as a
worldly hero seldom wins." He was more than seventy years
of age when he passed away, fifty-five of which he had been a
preacher in the Wesleyan Connexion. Roger Stobrs.
Peace Egg. — Some of us can well remember how we desired
to learn the " Peace Egg," and be enabled to strut about in tinsel
and colours, but now we never see a company of performers at
our doors. Yorkshiremen abroad will have forgotten the
appearance of the chap-book that was vended in those days,
with its bleared wood-cuts of gallant knights, and the final
black, powerfully-winged devil. We will first record the popular
rhyme, and then add a few lines on its meaning and antiquity.
After a wood-cut of a most valiant, armour-clad knight, we have
a grotesque block representing the Fool.
ACT 1.
Enter Actors.
Fool. — Room, room, Brave gallants, give us room to sport,
For to this roonj we wish now to resort,
Resort, and to repeat to you our merry rhyme,
For remember, good sirs, this is Christmas time.
The time to cut up goose-pies now doth appear,
So we are come to act a little of our merry Christmas here.
At the sound of the trumpet, and the beat of the drum,
Hake room, brave gentlemen, and let our actors come.
We are the merry actors that traverse the street,
We are the merry actors that fight for our meat ;
128 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
We are the merry actors that show pleasant play,
Step in, St. George, thou champion, and clear the way.
Enter St. Gbobob.
St. George. — I am St. George, who from old England sprung;
My famous name throughout the world hath rung,
Many bloody deeds and wonders have I made known,
And made false tyrants tremble on their throne.
I followed a fair lady to a giant's gate,
Confined in dungeon deep to meet her fate ;
Then I resolved with true knight-errantry,
To burst the door, and set the prisoner free.
When lo ! a giant almost struck me dead,
But by my valour I cut off his head. —
I've searched the world all round and round,
But a man to equal me I've never found.
Enter Slasher to St. Geoboe.
Slaslier. — I am a valiant soldier, and Slasher is my name,
With sword and buckler by my side, I hope to win more fame ;
And for to fight with me I see thou art not able,
So with my trusty broad-sword I soon will thee disable.
St. George. — Disable ; disable ; it lies not in thy power,
For with my glittering sword and spear I soon will thee devour.
So stand off Slasher ; let no more be said,
For if I draw my sword I am sure to break thy head.
Slaslur. — How can'st thou break my head ?
Since it is made of iron,
And my body's made of steel,
My hands and feet of knuckle bone,
I challenge thee to field. — They fight and Slasher is wounded.
Exit St. George.
Enter Fool to Slasher.
Fool. — Alas ! alas ! my ohiefest son is slain,
What must I do to raise him up again ?
Here he lies in the presence of you all :
I'll lovingly for a doctor call —
(aloud) A doctor ! a doctor ! ten pounds for a doctor,
I'll go and fetch a doctor, (going)
Enter Dootob.
Doctor. — Here am I.
Fool. — Are you the Doctor.
Doctor. — Yes : that you may plainly see, by my art and activity*
Fool. — Well, what's your fee to cure this man ?
Doctor. — Ten pounds is my fee ; but Jack, if thou be an honest
man, I'll only take five off thee.
Fool, — You'll be wondrous cunning if you get any ( aside, j —
Well, how far have you travelled in dootorahip ?
Doctor.— From Italy, Titaly, High Germany, France k Spftin*
and now am returned to cure the diseases in Old England again*
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 129
Fool— So far, and no further ?
Doctor.— 0 yes ! a great deal further.
Fool.— How far ?
Doctor. — From the fireside, cupboard, upstairs, and into bed.
Fool.- What diseases can you cure? *
Doctor. — All sorts.
Fool— What's all sorts ?
Doctor. — The itch, pitch, the palsy, and the gout. If a man
gets nineteen devils in his skull, I'll cast twenty of them out.
I have in my pocket, crutches for lame ducks, spectacles for
blind humblebees, paoksaddles and panniers for grasshoppers,
and plaisters for broken-backed mice. I cured Sir Harry of a
nang-nail, almost fifty-five yards long, surely I can cure this
poor man.-^Here, Jack ; take a little out of my bottle, and let
it run down thy throttle ; if thou be not quite slain, rise, Jack,
and fight again — (Slasher rises.)
Slasher. — 0 my back !
Fool.— What's amiss with thy back ?
Slather. — My back it is wounded,
Ancl my heart is confounded,
To be struck out of seven senses into four-score,
The like was never seen in old England before.
Enter St. George.
Sksher.— 0 hark! St. George, I hear the silver trumpet sound,
That summons us from off this bloody ground,
Down yonder is the way, (pointing.)
Farewell, St. George, we can no longer stay.
Fool— Yes, Slasher, thou had'st better go ;
Else next time he'll pierce thee through.
Eocit Slasher, Doctor, and Fool.
ACT 2.
St. George. — I am St. George, that noble champion bold,
And with my trusty sword I won ten thousand pounds in gold :
Twas I that fought the fiery dragon, and brought him to the
slaughter,
And by those means I won the King of Egypt's daughter.
EntUr Prince of Paradinb. (Palestine.)
11 that be he who doth stand there
That slew my master's son and heir,
If he be sprung from royal blood
I'll make it run like Noah's flood.
St. George. — Hold, Hector 1 do not be so hot,
For here thou knowest not who thou'st got,
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380 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
For I can tame thee of thy pride,
And lay thine anger, too, aside :
Inch thee, and cut thee as small as flies
And send thee over the sea to make mince pies,
Mince pies hot, mince pies cold,
I'll send thee to Black Sam* before thou art
three days old.
Hector. — How can'st thon tame me of my pride,
And lay mine anger, too, aside ;
Inch me, and cut me as small as flies
And send me over the sea to make mince pies ;
Mince pies hot, mince pies cold,
How can'st thou send me to Black Sam before
I'm three days old ?
Since my head is made of iron,
My body's made of steel,
My hands and feet of knuckle bone,
I challenge thee to field.
They fight and Hector is irounded.
I am a valiant knight, and Hector is my name,
Many bloody battles have I fought,
And always won the same,
But from St. George I received this bloody wound,
fa trum}>et sound*}
Hark ! hark ! I hear the silver trumpet sound,
Down yonder is the way, (pointing)
Farewell, St. George, I can no longer stay. (ExU.j
Enter Fool to St. George.
St. George. — Here comes from post, Old Bold Ben.
Fool. — Why, master, did ever I take you to be my friend ?
St. George. — Why, Jack, did I ever do thee any harm ?
Fool. — Thou proud saucy coxcomb, begone !
St. George. — A coxcomb ! I defy that name !
With a sword thou ought to be stabbed for the same.
Fool. — To be stabbed is the least I fear,
Appoint your time and place, I'll meet you there.
St. George. — I'll cross the water at the hour of five,
And meet you there, Sir, if I be alive. Exit.
Here come I, Beelzebub, and over my shoulders I carry my
club, and in my hand a dripping pan, and I think myself a jolly
old man, and if you don't believe what I say, enter in Devil-
doubt, and clear the way.
Enter Devil-doubt.
Here come I, little Devil-doubt, if you do not give me money
I'll sweep you all out ; money I want, and money I crave ; if
you do not give me money, I'll sweep you all to the grave.
* Still used for " Satan.*'
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 181
The Rapes [Rapier, or Sword] Dangers, about eight boys,
acted a version of the old drama at Brighouse, on Easter-
Monday,* April 11th, 1887. They were dressed in coloured
jackets, and card-board hats, trimmed with coloured paper,
beads, trinkets, artificial roses. Each carried a sword consist-
ing of a long strip of plate iron, with tin handle. After per-
forming, they begged coppers from the by-standers.
In the North of Ireland after St. George, a Turk, and the
Doctor, the boys introduce St. Patrick and Oliver Cromwell
into the drama.
01. Cnm. — Here come I, Oliver Cromwell, as you may sup-
pose, I conquered many nations with my copper nose ; I made
my foes for to tremble and my enemies for to quake, and beat
my opposers till I made their hearts to ache ; and if you don't
believe what I say, enter in Beelzebub, and clear the way.
Bteh. — Here come I, Beelzebub, and over my shoulder I
carry my club, and in my hand a dripping pan ; I think myself
a jolly old man ; and if you don't believe what I say, enter in
Devil-doubt and clear the way.
Devil Doubt. — Here come I, little Devil-doubt, if you don't
give me money, I'll sweep you all out ; money I want and
money I crave, if you don't give me money I'll sweep you all
to your grave.
Leader. — Gentlemen and Ladies, — Since our sport is ended,
our box must now be recommended ; our box would speak if it
had a tongue, nine or ten shillings would do it no wrong. All
silver and no brass.
Song by them all :
Your cellar doors are locked,
And we're all like to choke ;
And it's all for the drink
That we sing, boys, sing.
3J0rk5ljtrt $p*{rks.
44 He couldn't finn'd in his heart," is a very common mode of
expression.
"I am quite better," is a positive comparative, when answer-
ing friends.
"I reckon not," has nothing to do with " ready reckoners."
" He has got his wage," is never used but plurally.
"He's fearful poorly," and a poor woman told me that her
husband was a "fearful reader."
"Fearful fine," and " fearful grand," are quite common.
"There's a vast o' folks," means that there are a great many.
• Also during Christmas-week, 1886.
182 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
" Think on, then/' is naked language, but what of " I will
think on of it ?
" To ware money," is to spend it, and " brass " is money in
Yorkshire; and it had once to endure the "trial of the pix."
It is a pure Saxon word.
When illness is likely to be fatal, they say " It will be too
many for him."
"Do" often turns up. " I can't do with this man." " This
will do nothing." " It is a good do."
When a candidate for favour is unpopular, they are said "to
shout him," for " hoot him."
If an unwilling assent is given, they say " I am like." If a
denial, " None so," or " I will not do so, you mind."
It is "good to see," they say, when sometimes the very
opposite is meant.
If a creditor gets only part of what is due, it is said " He has
got part money." If a man is getting on in the world, " He is
worth part money."
" It was all long of him." This occurs in The Life and Death
of Thomas Lord Cromwell. "Into decay indeed, 'long of that
wretch."
This is good Saxon. " He is carried on nicely," spoken of a
person who is getting better of a complaint.
" Nowt of the sort," is a very resolute disclaimer.
A person, or neighbour, and even a prospect or landscape, is
spoken of as " decent." This reminds one of the remark, the
modesty of nature,
" He did call him," implies abuse.
" He's rare an' sick," in a "rare taking," in a " rare pain."
Is from the Saxon (raran) to roar. Roaring, the participle, is
now used in " He's doing a roaring trade."
If a person needs assistance, his comrade promises to " give
him a leg on."
" To pay " a person is to beat him ; this is probably from the
Greek.
" I will take up the bill, if I nobbud get the money." The
French words ne que are similar. Chaucer says in his Wife of
Bath, — For mine intent is not but to play.
" He is better of himself," is said of a person under a chronic
disease feeling more oomfortable.
" He takes sturdy," is said of a man who will not yield.
" He is sadly let down by his wife."
" He frets himself over it," or " He frets," used as a neuter.
" To heir an estate," is parlance as prevalent as it is intoler-
able.
" He has aged very much lately," makes a person stare who
is not used to it.
" They regularly sarve him," is said of a person who receives
alms.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 188
" Gome oat of that," is friendly advice when a person is in
danger.
" He sets great store by him," implies value.
" Nasty, or snasty," is said of a person who is litigious.
" Happen it may," is distinctive. [Perhaps.']
" Forth putting," is energy of execution.
" I'll come enow," that is, soon.
'* He's a fool to him." It is said when the superlative excel-
lence of some one is pleaded.
" What is that man after ?" JSfter in Saxon, gives the sense
of for and close to a thing. Thus the original sense is retained.
" What do they call him ?" For what is his name ?
" You have had your say" or " I will have my say, as how."
This is clearly an outrage both on the verb and the substantive.
" 1 am fair puzzled," is somewhat conflicting.
(< He is safe to be hung," is an undesirable safety. But King
John says the same of Peter of Pomfret.
" He is a sore one," refers to wicked conduct.
" He's gone to lead coals," would appear that he had per-
suaded the minerals to follow him.
" None " is very potential. " I will go none." " I will none
pay his debts." " It's none o' mine."
"I shall stop while such a day." But the dialect runs riot in
prepositions. " I am richer nor you." " This man is better nor
that." " Can you do anything at it." " He reads to him of
night." "What by that?" "What do you think to such a
thing, or man?" "He's got killed." "He is gone dead."
"He is off on the rant," with which we will conclude for the
present. Collated from "Nugjs Literary : by the Rev. Bichd.
Winter Hamilton. Leeds : J. Y. Knight, 1841."
100
108
YORKSHIRE CENTENARIANS.
Richard Wrightson, of Sherburn, died July 7,
1846, aged
Mbs. Todd, of Richmond, Yorkshire, died in
1790. Annual Register. Aged
Thos. Clark, of Brook, computed to bee 105 years
ould, Nov. 28, 1658. Ecclesfield Register.
Alice Brearley, of Potterhill, Oct. 80, 1842, Aged 108
Ecclesfield Register.
1765. A Labouring Man and his Wife living in Pontefract,
he 108, she 105. Annual Register, 1765.
1792. Death of Mrs. Mawhood, or Maud, Aged 100
Annual Register.
1764. Death of Geo. Kirton, of Oxnop Hall, near Leyburn,
aged 124. He followed the hounds until the age of 80 ;
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went in a chair to the unkennelling of the hounds until
100, and made very free with the bottle until 110.
Annual RegisUr.
In Whitby Parish Church Yard, near the top of the steps,
is a stone bearing the following : —
To the
Memory of
Esther Lino, who died
Nov. the 2nd, 1770,
Aged 109 years.
The longest liver to Death's power must yield ;
Nor ought below can from that Tyrant shield.
[Copied, April 11th, 1887.]
Hannah, Widow of Joseph Wilkinson, of Idle Workhouse,
aged 108, buried at Calverley Church in 1790.
Richard Farber, of Bolton, near Bradford, a native of Idel,
aged 100, buried at Calverley Church in 1657.
Elizabeth, Widow of Daniel Farrer, of Owlcoates, aged 105,
buried at Calverley Church in 1779.
Old Dame Lobley, of Pudsey, aged 99, buried at Calverley
Church in 1672.
Agnes Bboadley, of Bagley, aged 106, buried at Calverley
Church, May 10, 1718.
Elizabeth Cromack, of Idle, aged 99* buried at Calverley
Church in 1827. Her grandson 'long Benjamin/ re-
quired a coffin seven feet eleven inches long.
1782. Valentine Cateby, aged 116, of Preston, near Hull.
He went to sea in his eighteenth year, and continued a sailor
for about 86 years; he afterwards became a farmer, which
calling he also followed 36 years. His diet, especially for the
last twenty years of his life, was milk and biscuit. His intel-
lect was perfect and composed up to the close of his life.
Robert Ogleby, commonly known by the name of the " Old
Tinker," was born at Bipon on the 16th of November, 1654, as
appears by the register, and, to corroborate which, his own
account of himself is that he was put apprentice in 1668, to
one Sellers, a brazier, at York, when he was fourteen years of
age ; that he served seven years in that capacity, and two years
more as journeyman. He then began business for himself at
Bipon, which he carried on five years, and failed. After which
he went to Hull, and wrought journey work there four years,
when he entered King James's service ; was sent with the regi-
ment to Ireland, where he changed his master, and was among
those who fought under King William at the battle of Boyne in
1690, where he saw the Duke of Schomberg fall. He served
about twenty-three years longer in the army in different places,
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 185
and was discharged after the peace of Utrecht, but having
neither wounds nor infirmities to plead for him, he got no pen-
sion, so he resumed his old trade, or rather took up the new
one of travelling brazier, which he continued till within four
years of his death ; and at the amazing age of 110 woxdd carry
his budget twenty miles on a winter's day, and do his business
with as much alacrity as any other man at fifty. (?) But he
soon after grew infirm, and was obliged to give up the itinerant
trade he had carried on for above fifty years, and take to begging.
He died at Leeds in 1768, after having completed the 114th year
of his age.
Fannie Cavill, of The Grange, Setterington, formerly of
Hessle, died early in 1887, in her 102nd year.
1616. Died John Graves, gent., of Yorkshire, aged 108, of
whom there is an engraving by Yertue.
• ( Nash's Worcestershire.)
James* Bradford records the following list, and as he justly
remarks, if ages had been entered before 1818, the list would
have been much longer :
" 1798, Ellen Lobley, Bradford, 109 years.
1805, John Fawthrop, Silsbridge Lane, 100.
1811, Major Pearson, Bradford, 104.
( Major was not uncommon as a Christian name.)
1817, Anthony Wrigglesworth, White Abbey, clothier, 100.
1821, Betty Moor, Allerton, 100.
1840, Margaret Walker, widow, Little Horton Lane, 99 yrs.
11 months.
1841, Mercy Drake was living in Pit Lane, Bradford, aged
101 years.
1854, March 5th, died Margaret Baxter, widow, George
Street, Bradford, aged 99.
1849, Sept. 6, died Ruth Wooler, widow, White Abbey,
Bradford, aged 99.
1861, Feb. 22, died Nancy Barning, of Banner Street, Brad-
ford, aged 99.
1859, June 17, died Michael Craighton, of Horton, Bradford,
aged 95, had children under 12 years of age when
he died.
1847, May 6, died Elizabeth Myers, widow, of Low Moor,
aged 101.
1849, Aug. 11, died Grace Wilkinson, widow, Denholme,
aged 99.
1855, Oct. 15, died Susannah Stow, widow, of Denholme
Clough, aged 99.
1849, Feb. 4, died James Atkinson, weaver, of Shipley Moor-
head, aged 100."
186 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
1742. John Phillips, aged 117, of Thor&er, near Leeds.
He was born at Carleton, near Stokesley, on the patrimonial
property of the family, in the year 16259 the first year of the
reign of Charles I. He thus saw 24 years under Charles l.t
10 Commonwealth, 26 Charles II., 8 James II., 14 William
and Mary, 12 Anne, 18 George L, 16 George II., making 117.
His Bible and Copy of the Will are in the possession of John
H. Phillips, Esq., of Scarborough, to whom we are under obliga-
tions for a beautiful portrait of the Yorkshire Worthy, which we
hope to have copied for our readers. He was a bachelor, the
brother of Mr. Phillips' great-great-grandfather. The Centen-
arian was a gentleman of considerable position in his day, and
owned lands at Thorner, which passed from the family by the
delinquencies of an unprincipled lawyer. The stirring events
at Edgehill and Naseby lived in his memory, and he was in
London at the time of the beheading of Charles I. Mr. Phillips
was a great favourite with Cromwell, whose insubordinate
soldiery he had placed in the stocks, for which the Protector
praised him. He remembered Old St. Paul's which perished in
the great conflagration. He was present at the laying of the
foundation stone of Greenwich Hospital, and suffered loss from
the South Sea Bubble. He joined in the rejoicings at Thorner
when the Seven Bishops were liberated. He loved to converse,
when past his hundredth year, on the great events that had
happened during his life. He enjoyed uninterrupted good
health through life, was moderate in eating and drinking, and
at the time of his death had a summons to attend the Grand
Jury at York Assizes, and had a new suit of clothes made for
the occasion. His teeth were fairly sound, and his sight good,
and he was able to walk till within a few days of his death. A
full-length portrait ( six feet, ) of him is in the picture gallery
at Temple Newsam, painted by Mercier in his best style, which
was afterwards engraven, from which the photograph is taken.
He was greatly esteemed by his neighbours, and his society
was much sought after. There is a short memoir of him in
Biographia Curiosa, and we shall be pleased to be favoured with
a copy of it, if any of our readers have access to that book.
Woman's Will in Olden Times. — The following picture to
the life is from Deloney*s Thomas of Beading, a Romance of
1600, in which Hodgekins, the Halifax clothier, and the Gibbet
Law figure prominently.
One of the great clothiers' wives said to her acquaintances,-
" I will haue my Husband to buy me a London Gowne, or in
faith he shall haue little quiet. So said they all. She daily lay
at him for London apparell, to whom he said, Good Woman,
be content, let us goe according to our Place and Ability : what
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 187
will all the Bailiffes thinke, if I should prancke thee up like a
Peaoocke, and thou in thy Attire surpasse their Wines. Beside
that, it is enough to raise me yp in the Kings Booke (taxes,) for
many times Mens Coffers are iudged by their Garments : why,
we are Country Folks, and must keepe our semes in good
Compasse : gray Russet, and good Hempe-spun Cloth doth best
become vs ; I tell thee, Wife, it were as vndeoent for vs to goe
like Londoners as it is for Londoners to goe like Courtiers.
What a Coyle keepe you ? quoth she, are not we Gods Creatures
as well as Londoners? and the Kings Subjects, as well as they?
then, finding our Wealth to be as good as theirs, why should we
not goe as gay as Londoners ? No, Husband, no, here is the
Fault, wee are kept without it, onely because our Husbands be
not so kind as Londoners : why, Man, a Cobler there keeps his
Wife better then the best Clothier in this Countrey : nay, I will
affirm it, that the London Oyster- wiues, and the very Kitchen-
stuffe Cryers, doe exceed vs in their Sundaies Attire : nay, more
then that, I did see the Water-bearers Wife, which belongs to
One of our Merchants, come in with a Tankerd of Water on her
Shoulder, and yet Half a Dozen Gold Binge on her Fingers.
But, Wife, you must consider what London is, the chiefe and
capitall City of all the Land, a Place on the which all Strangers
cast their Eyes, it is (Wife) the Kings Chamber and His
Majesties royall Seate : to that City repaires all Nations under
Heaven. Therefore it is most meete and conuenient that the
Citizens of such a City should not goe in their Apparrell like
Peasants, but for the Credit of our Country, weare such seemely
Habits as doe carry Grauity and Comelinesse in the Eyes of all
Beholders. But if wee of the Country went so (quoth she) were
it not as great Credit for the Land as the other ? Woman, qd.
her Husband, it is altogether needlesse, and in diners Respects
it maymot be. Why then, I pray you, quoth she, let us goe
dwell at London. A Word soone spoken, said her Husband,
but not so easie to be performed : therefore, Wife, I pray thee
hold thy Prating, for thy Talke is foolish : Yea, yea, Husband,
your old churlish Conditions will neuer be left, you keepe me
here like a Drudge and a Droile, and so you may keepe your
Money in your Purse, you care not for your Credit, but before
I will goe so like a Shepheardesse, I will first goe naked : and
I tell you plaine, I scorne it greatly that you should clap a gray
Gowne on my Backe, as if I had not brought you Two-pence :
before I was married, you swore I should haue any Thing that
I requested, but now all is forgotten. And in saying this, she
went in, and soone after she was so sicke, that needes she must
goe to Bed : and when she was laid, she draue out that Night
with many grieuous Groanes, Sighing and Sobbing, and no
Best she could take God wot. And in the Morning when she
should rise, the good Soule fell downe in a Swowne, which put
186 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
her Maidens in a great Fright, who running downe to their
Master, cryed out, Alas, alas, our Dame is dead ! our Dame is
dead ! The Good-man hearing this ran vp in all Hast, and
there fell to rubbing and chafing of her Temples, sending far
aqua vita, and saying, Ah, my Sweet-heart, speake to me, Good-
wife, alacke, alacke! call in the Neighbours, you Queanes, quoth
he. With that she lift vp her Head, fetching a great Groane,
and presently swouned againe, and much adoe ywis, he had to
keepe Life in her : but when she was come to her selfe, How
dost thou, Wife ? qd. he. What wilt thou haue ? for Gods sake
tell me if thou hast a Mind to any Thing, thou shalt haue it-
Away, Dissembler! (qd. she) how can I beleeue thee? thou
hast said to me as much a hundred Times, and decerned me ; it
is thy Churlishnesse that hath killed my Heart, neuer was
Woman matcht to so unkind a Man. Nay, Good- wife, blame
me not without Cause : God knoweth how heartily I loue thee.
Loue me ? no, no, thou didst neuer carry my Loue but on the
Tip of thy Tongue, quoth she ; I dare sweare thou desirest
Nothing so much as my Death, and for my Part, I would to
God thou hadst thy Desire : but be content, I shall not trouble
thee long: and with that fetching a Sigh, she swouned and
gaue a great Groane. The Man seeing her in this Case, was
woundrous woe : but so soone as they had recouered her, he
said, 0 my deare Wife, if any bad Conceit hath ingendered this
Sickenesse, let me know it ; or if thou knowst any Thing that
may procure thy Health, let me vnderstand thereof, and 1
protest thou shalt haue it, if it cost me all that ever I haue.
0 Husband, quoth she, how may I credit your Words, when for
a paltry Sute of Apparrell you denyed me ? Well, Wife, quoth
he, thou shalt haue Apparrell or any Thing else thou wilt
request, if God send thee once Health. O Husband, if I may
find you so kind, I shall think my selfe the happiest Woman in
the World, thy Words haue greatly comforted my Heart, mee
thinketh if I had it, I could drink a good Draught of Banish
Wine. Well, Wine was sent for : 0 Lord, said she, that I had
a Piece of a Chicken, I feele my Stomaoke desirous of some
Meate. Glad am I of that, said her Husband ; and so the
Woman within a few Dayes after that was very well. But you
shall vnderstand, that her Husband was faine to dreBse her
London-like, ere he could get her quiet, neither would it please
her except the Stuffe was bought in Cheapside: for out of
Cheapside nothing would content her, were it neuer so good:
insomuch, that if she thought a Taylor of Cheapside made not
her Gowne, she would sweare it were quite spoiled. And hauing
thus wonne her Husband to her Will, when the Best of the
Clothiers Wiues heard thereof, they would be anted in the ike
sort too."
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 189
Wife Sales. — The following are additional notices, see
page 47:
ATtnual Register, February 14, 1806 : — " A man named John
Gorsthorpe exposed his wife for sale in the market, at Hull,
about one o'clock; but, owing to the crowd which such an
extraordinary occurrence had gathered together, he was obliged
to defer the sale, and take her away. About four o'clock, how-
ever, he again brought her out, and she was sold for 20 guineas,
and delivered, in a halter, to a person named Houseman, who
had lodged with them four or five years."
Morning Post, October 10, 1807 : — " One of those disgraceful
scenes, which have, of late, become too common, took place on
Friday se'night at Knaresborough. Owing to some jealousy,
or other family difference, a man brought his wife, equipped in
the usual style, and sold her at the market cross for 6d. and a
quid of tobacco ! "
In the Doncaster Gazette of March 25, 1808, a sale is thus
described: — "A fellow sold his wife, as a cow, in Sheffield
market place a few days ago. The lady was put into the hands
of a butcher, who held her by a halter fastened round her waist !
1 What do you ask for your cow?' said a bystander. ' A guinea/
replied the husband.
" ' Done ! ' cried the other, and immediately led away his
bargain. We understand that the purchaser and his 'cow' live
very happily together.
Local Preachers. — Sammy Senior. — Mr. Roger Storrs says
"Old Sammy Senior" the well-known Heckmondwike local
preacher never made an allusion to Noah but as " Mr. Noah."
I have never heard that stated before, but I have heard a good
many queer anecdotes about this worthy, and I have no doubt
your readers will be able to supply many more. Sammy was a
good sample of an almost extinct race. Possibly such parsons
would not be tolerated in this age of superfineness, but with all
their oddities and eccentricities they were men who did much
good, if they did it in a primitive and rather rough fashion, and
in the days before school boards were thought of they took the
attention of the uneducated where polished men failed utterly.
Sammy ever endeavoured to make the Scriptures very clear, as
when he explained in a sermon on Jacob's ladder that a ladder
was a "stee," and it certainly was not his fault if his hearers
did not understand. It is said when preaching on Elijah and
the prophets of Baal, he referred to the exclamation of Elijah,
uCry aloud, he is a God, Ac," " Nah this ye naw was ironical,"
he added. Then suddenly remembering that he was using a
word some of his audience might not understand he hastened to
say "But happen some of you don't know what ironical means;
140 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
let me see if I can make it plain to yon. Some of you women
when you 6end your bairns for a pound of treacle will say
4 Nah mind an' breyk t'pot.' What you mean is 'at it isn't to
breyk it. Nah that's ironical." This may seem to some a
rather quaint explanation, but I question if some learned man
had attempted to bring it home to the understandings of
Sammy's unlettered audience if he would have succeeded half
as well. Sammy's explanation of the meaning of " gross dark-
ness," however, caps all I ever heard or read. " Let us see,"
Sammy is reported to have said, "if I can explain to you what
this ' gross darkness ' means. Well, you know a gross is a
hundred and forty four, so that this darkness was a hundred
and forty four times darker than the common sort 1 " Perhaps
some others of your readers may be able to tell us something
respecting Sammy Senior. I never heard him myself but once,
and I thought he was the oddest and most eccentric parson I
ever saw. Nevertheless Sammy has a good record. He was a
shining light in his day. Bookworm.
Easter Eggs. — In the North of England, Yorkshire, and
many other parts, & singular custom prevails in regard to these
eggs. On Easter Monday and Tuesday, the people assemble in
the meadows, everybody provided with plenty of hard-boiled,
coloured Easter eggs. These they play with by tumbling them
about on the grass — but if one, or more, should happen to get
broken in the sport, it must be instantly eaten by the breaker,
possibly as a punishment for his, or her, apparent clumsiness.
These eggs are generally known by the name of pace, i.e. pasche,
or pax, meaning Easter, but why the Raper* Dancers' Drama
is named the Peace Egg, I cannot state. At Whitby and
throughout Cleveland, on Easter Monday, (April 11th, 1887),
the children had these eggs, with shells dyed in the brightest
colours, whilst the confectioners exposed artificial eggs, of
choicest workmanship, for sale to those with a 'sweet tooth'
who preferred sugar to real eggs.
Cubious Tradition.— A tradition has been handed down at
Soothill, near Dewsbury, to the effect that the master of an
iron-foundry a long time back, in a fit of passion, threw a boy
into one of his furnaces. In our time if such a deed had been
committed the perpetrator would probably have soon made the
acquaintance of the hangman. The Soothill tradition, how-
ever, says that the sentence upon the passionate ironfounder
was that he should raise the church a yard all round, and
provide a bell for the steeple. The old church, says a writer in
1820, bore the marks of this addition. Can any reader furnish
further particulars respecting this strange story ? Letbubh.
* Rapier or Sword Dancers.
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 141
Elnmus on forksljir* $lnzt fiamtz.
The following doggerel verses, taken from a rhyming
geography, written by the Rev. Alex. Mackay, LL.D., may be
worth preserving. The lines may serve to call to mind some
more ancient bits of topographical rhyme — many such verses
have been handed down from remote times — which might be
worth recording :
Next, Yorkshire comes, our largest shire,
Between the Tees and Humber,
For mines and manufactures fam'd
And Ridings three in number.
The West is noted for broadcloth,
For silk and cotton mills ;
The North a grazing country is ;
The East a land of hills.
The capital is York, on Ouse,
A great archbishop's see,
And famous for its Minster grand :
Here meet the Sidings three.
For races Doneaster is known,
At Sheffield knives are made ;
Leeds, Halifax, and Bradford too,
Are fam'd for woollen trade ;
With Hull and Whitby, seaport towns, —
The first of greater name, —
And Scarboro' and Harrogate
Of mineral water fame. Sempronius.
Havebah Pabx. — When John of Gaunt was lord of the forest
of Enaresborough, a cripple, borne on crutches, of the name of
Haverah, petitioned' the kind-hearted Prince to give him a
piece of land, from which he might contrive to obtain a sub-
sistence, who at once granted his request in the following
charter-like terms —
I, John o'Gaunt,
Do give and do grant
To thee Haverah,
As much of my ground
As thou canst hop round
On a long summer day.
The stout-hearted cripple selected the longest day in the year
iSt. Barnabas) for his exploit, commencing with sunrise, and
teeping hopping all day until evening, when just as the sun
was setting he had completed the circuit of the park within
such a short distance, that he threw his crutches over the
intervening space, to the point where he had started, and by so
doing gained the loud which ever since has borne his name. [?]
142 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Here is another verse relating to a place called Bacnp, south
east of Cleckheaton, which must have had its origin in the
trade carried on by the parties named : —
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Lived in a house aboon Bacup ;
Abraham [wan] carded, and Isaac span,
And Jacob fetched oil in an old tin can.
Bonny lass, bonny lass, bonny art thou,
I wouldn't part with my lass for a fat cow,
Nor for a fat bull,
Nor all the ships on the sea sailing to Hull.
If York and fair London were mine, little Nanny my heiress
should be,
To York and fair London and fair Coventry,
With a castle by the Calder side and fair Dewsbury.
One which has come down to us through the hardy Saxon,
from the time of the invasion of England by the so-called
William the Conqueror, is as follows : —
William de Conigsby
Came out of Brittany,
With his wife Tiffany,
And his maid Manfras,
And his dogge Hardigrasse :
I wish they were back again.
Hartshead near Dewsbury, has three unmelodious bells :
Hartchit cum Clifton,
Two cracked bells an' a snipt un.
" There was an old woman at Baildon,
Whose door had a horse-shoe nail'd on,
Because one night
They'd such a fright
With a boggart that was a horned and a tail'd 'un.*'
This rhyme was noted at Baildon, near Bradford. It is com-
mon to nail a horse-shoe behind the door, so that the inmates
may not be bewitched. Respecting this subject, we may add
one or two folk lore notes : — There is a great belief in the anti-
witching propensity of mountain ash, or, as it is more commonly
called, " wicken " or " wiggen-tree," or " sip-sap." If a person
be ill, it is placed over his bed to scare away the witches, and
the superstitious farmer will often place a small quantity over
the heads of his cattle. The weaver would place it over her
loom to prevent her web or chain suffering from the witches'
influence. H.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE. 148
The following is a well-known Cleveland couplet :—
" When Roseberry Topping wears a cappe,
Let Cleveland then beware of a clap."
Roseberry Topping is a lofty conical-shaped hill, in the North
Riding of Yorkshire. The "clap" alluded to is, in plain
language, a thunderstorm. This old proverb is noticed by
Camden two hundred years ago. He observes that " When its
top begins to be darkened with clouds, rain generally follows ;"
hence the ancient distich.
Paul is a small place a few miles from Hull. The church is
situated on a commanding eminence, and standing by itself,
nearly a quarter of a mile from the village, gave rise to the
following : —
" High Paul and low, and Paul Holme,
There never was a fair maid married at Paul town."
In the " Popular Rhymes of Scotland " (published 1870) it is
recorded, " A native of Edinburgh, who in 1825 was seventy-
two years of age, stated that when he was a boy the following
prophetic rhyme, ascribed to True Thomas, was in vogue : —
" York was, London is, and Edinburgh will be
The biggest o' tae three."
In his early day, Edinburgh consisted only of what is now
called the Old Town; and the New Town though projected, was
not then expected to ever reach the extent and splendour which
it has now attained. It is to be remarked, however, that there
is a similar rhyme popular in England. Stukely, in his
"Itinerarium Curiosum," after expatiating upon the original
size and population of Lincoln, quotes as an old adage : —
" Lincoln teas, London is, and York shall be
The fairest city of the three."
As to True Thomas, we are told " the common people through-
out the whole of Scotland look with such veneration to a seer
of old times, whom they variously designate * True Thomas,'
and ' Thomas the Rhymer.' " They preserve a great number
of prophetic sayings of this person, chiefly expressed in rhyme;
and invariable tradition at Earltown represents as the prophet
True Thomas. If such be the case, he must have deceased at
the same period, not long prior to 1299. The people of Earls-
town farther represent his real name as Thomas Learmont.
They point to a ruined tower near the village, which they say
was his property and residence, and to a spot in the parish
churchyard with which his connection is denoted by an inscrip-
tion on the church wall : —
" Auld Rhymer's race
Lies in this place."
William Andrews, Hull.
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144 Y0BK8HIRE FOLK-LOBE.
From a well-constructed paper read to the Folk-lore Society
I extract the following, believing that they will interest many
of your readers: — Yorkshire generally. — "Looks as vild (worth-
less) as a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop." —
Notes and Queries, vii., 284.
"A Dent for a Galloway (This word should not, I think, be
written with a capital ; galloway— pony or hackney) a Hind for
an Ass." — Ibid.
Barnsley. — " The town, from its exposed situation, was form-
erly known as ' Bleak Barnsley/ an epithet now changed to
* Black Barnsley/ from its smoke-stained houses and narrow
dirty streets. — Murray's Handbook for Yorkshire, p. 605.
Barnsley. — The people are called " Barnsley Folks."— J*
BairnslaFoak's Annual is a well-known contribution to literature.
Beverley.— "On the 29th April, 1520, part of the church of
St. Mary's, Beverley, fell, and fifty-five persons were killed.
Sir Richard Bokeby, knight, and Dame Jane, his wife, gave
2001 towards its reparation, for which they were to be specially
prayed for. Ralph Rokeby says : — • I have heard that a bear-
baiting and a mass being both at one time in Beverley, there
was near a thousand people at the bear-baiting, and only five-
and-fifty at mass, who were all slain, and ever since, they say
there It is better to be at the baiting of a bear than the singing of a
mass.1 " — W. H. Longstaffe's Richmondshire, pp. 125-6.
Bowes. —
" When Julius Ccesar was a king,
Bowes Castle was a famous thing."
Murray's Handbook, p. 868 ; Richmondshire, p. 189.
Cotherston. — " On the south side of the road near Doe Park
(Ledger Hall) stands the pedestal or socket of a cross on which,
as on many similar remains, coffins were rested. It is in
addition reported that here it was where they christened calves.
Some hot-headed fanatics of the seventeenth century did per-
form such a profane rite in contempt of baptism, and Cother-
ston is pointed out as one locale of its enactment, * Cotherston,
where they christen calves, hopple lops, and kneeband spiders/"
— Richmondshire, p. 188.
Doncaster. — " The profits of the town mills near the bridge
over the Don were anciently assigned for the special expenses
of the Mayor, hence the old saying : —
1 The Doncaster mayor he sits in his chair,
His mills they merrily go,
His nose doth shine with drinking wine,
And the gout is in his great toe/ "
Murray's Handbook, p. 8.
Chilling (near Richmond.) — " Gilling is commemorated in a
weather rhyme : —
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 145
4 When Gilling brews,
Durham rues.' "
Richmondshire, p. 120.
Gorndre, —
" When Gormire riggs shall be covered with hay,
The white mare of Whitestone Cliffe shall bear it away."
Ibid, p. 240.
This white mare was a beast more or less mythical, which
sprang over a cliff with a young lady rider, whose body was
never found.
Kirby. — "Kirby parsoned. — 'In several rural places about
York it is the oustom to speak of bottles with cavities at the
bottom as being Kirby parsoned. The popular explanation is
that this Kirby parson was " a hollow-bottomed fellow," but
the phrase will admit of a kindlier construction. With the
parish, which must hold some tradition of a remarkable
character, we have no acquaintance.1 The above was a com-
munication to JSoUs and Queries some years ago. The writer
has since heard several other versions of the story, and
attempted explanations of the above phrase in connection with
a village in the North Riding, but none of them are worth
repeating." — Glossary of Words pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-
Yorkshire.— (E.D.S.) By C. Clough Bobinson.
Lartington. — The enumeration of some local sayings about
Barnard Castle (co. Durham) and its people ends with " Lar-
tbgton's frogs and Barney Castle's butcher dogs " point (sic) to
something like cowardly conduct in triumphing over the weak.
-Ibid, p. 188.
Leeds. — I have been told that " Leeds Loiners," i.e., Laners,
" dwellers in lanes," is the style and title of its inhabitants
amongst outsiders.
SHpton. — " The old rhyme hardly now applies : —
' 0 Skipton in Craven
'Tis never a haven,
But many a day foul weather/ "
Murray's Handbook, p. 410.
Toitton. — " The Lancastrian Lord Dacre was shot, says tradi-
tion, in a field called the * Nor (north) Acres,' by a boy out of a
'bur-tree ' (elder tree). Hence the local rhyme : —
< The Lord of Dacres
Was slain at the North Acres.' "
—Ibid., p. 518 ; H alii well's Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales,
p. 200.
Wakefield. — "Wakefield chap," is I believe, the usual epithet
for its people.
York. — " The Mayor is a lord for a year and a day,
But his wife is a lady for ever and aye."
Notes and Queries, second series, viii. 896.
r. f-l. x
146 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Verstegan says, " The name or title of Lady, our honourable
appellation generally for all principal women, extended so farre
as that it not only mounteth up from the wife of the Knight to
the wife of a King, but remaineth to some whose husbands are
no Knights, such as having been Lord Mayors are afterwards
only called masters, as, namely, the Aldermen of York."—
Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, p. 817. This is no longer
" The use of York."
York and Sutton. — A proverbial simile, " As much as York
excels foul Sutton." — Bonn's Handbook of Proveibs, p. 191.
There is a variant in the prediction : —
14 Lincoln was, London is, and York shall be
The fairest city of the three."
(quoted) Folk-lore Record, i., 160, which says, " the greatest city."
Murray's Handbook, p. 28.
Yorkshireman. — " A Yorkshireman will bite after he is dead."
Heard by Mr. Edward Hailstone, F.S.A., September, 1879.
Hobnsba Chxjech. — Its low square tower once bore a tall
spire, on which, it is said, the builder had cut the inscription :
" Hornsea steeple, when I built thee,
Thou wast ten miles off Burlington,
Ten miles off Beverley,
And ten miles off sea."
ftobiti Hood tit Dorksljir*.
Watson, the Halifax Historian, a century ago, stated that
all unaccountable stones and events were placed to the credit
of Robin Hood in the North, where King Arthur would get
the credit in the South of England. So it is that Robin Hood's
arrows, undressed stone pillars, are found in several places in
Yorkshire. The Devil, however, is a strong claimant with
bold Robin for the authorship of these freaks. Mr. Hunter,
no mean authority, gives Robin Hood a decided personal,
not a mythical existence; and we are disposed to regard
him as our personal friend Robin o' th' wood, leaving the
works of Bit son, Gutch (1847, 2 vols.), Halliwell (ArchieoL
Assoc. Journal, vol. 8), Hunter's pamphlet, Fordun's Sooti*
ohronioon, (14th century), Mr. Wright, and others, for later
consideration. We purpose to visit Robin Hood's Well in
Barnsdale, Fountain's Abbey, Robin Hood's Bay, and other
Yorkshire haunts in the hero's oompany, and to see him peace-
folly and actually laid in the sylvan retreats of Kirklees, near
Brighouse. I have just returned from the picturesque fishing
village at Robin Hood'B Bay, and heard the story of the two
upright stones at Hawsker which marked the spots where the
arrows of Robin Hood and Little John fell, when to please the
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 147
monks of Whitby, they shot from the old Church tower on the
East Cliff. I have spent a day at Danby this Easter, where
Robin Hood's Butts (tumuli) are shown, and three houses on
Danby Moor are also so named. He must have trod the very
ground, or people were foolish to start such tales.
Here begins the story of " Robin Hood turned Fisherman : —
In summer time, when the leaves were green, and the flowers
sweet and gay, when the lily appeared with the primrose and
cowslip-buds, Robin Hood grew weary of the forest and woods,
and left off to chase the fat deer.
"I will hasten to Scarborough now," said he, " and become
a fisherman, for a fisherman's trade is good, and their harvest
is in the sea."
And when Robin came to Scarborough, he took up his inn at
a widow's house, not far from the wide ocean.
" Tell me, my bold young fellow," said the widow, " where
thou wast born, and what is thy means of support."
"I am a poor fisherman," he replied, " and want to be em-
ployed."
" Then what is thy name," asked she.
"In mine own country," said Robin, "I am called Simon
Wise."
" Simon Wise, Simon Wise," said the good dame, "I am
afraid thou hast got an unfit name, that may make thee the
jest of thy fellows; however Simon, if thou wilt serve me, I
will give thee good wages, for I have as good a ship of my own
as any that sails in the sea."
So Robin consented to serve this good widow, and went by
the name of poor Simon. After a time the ship went to sea,
and they sailed along for several days in hopes to take plenty
of fish, but when others oast their baited hooks into the sea,
Simon only cast in his bare lines.
"It will be a long while," said the master, " ere this lubber
will learn to thrive upon the sea. Let him do as he will, he
shall have none of our fish, for in truth he is worthy of none."
" What a hard fate is mine," said poor Simon, " since I set
up for a fisherman before I had learnt my trade ; now every
clownish fisherman laughs me to scorn, but if I had them in
Sherwood groves, and was chasing the fat fallow deer, I would
set as little by them as they do now by me."
Away they sailed, and steered their course towards home,
but the next day they espied a French ship of war, that sailed
vigorously after them.
"0 we are now lost," said the master, " unhappy the day
that I was born, for our ship and our cargo will be taken from
us, and these Frenohmen will carry us to the coast of France,
and lay us fast in prison."
148 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
But Simon said, " Fear them not, master, only give me my
bow in my hand, and never a Frenchman shall live to board us."
"Hold thy peace, thou great lubber," said the master, "for
thou art nothing but brags and boasts, and if I should throw
thee into the sea, there would only be a piece of lumber lost."
Simon was grievously vexed at these words, and taking his
bow, he went towards the ship's hatch.
" Master, tie me to the mast," cried he, " and let me stand
fair at the mark, then give me my bow in my hand, and if I
spare a single Frenchman may they shoot their arrows through
my breast."
Then Simon drew his arrow to the head, and shot with such
boldness and skill, that, in the twinkling of an eye, he pierced
the first Frenchman's heart.
He took such good aim, and shot so hastily that not a
Frenchman could be seen, for they all fell down dead through
the hatches below.
" Now, master, untie me from the mast," cried he, " that I
may go and board the French ship."
And when they came thither, they found all their enemies
slain, and discovered on board, twelve thousand pounds in
glittering gold.
Then said Simon, " One half of the ship I will give to our
good mistress and her three little ohildren, and the other half
I will divide among you, who are my comrades, to make yon
think well of poor Simon."
" Not so," said the master, "for that would be a shame, if we
should receive that which you have won so gallantly ; 'tis all
your own right, and you shall have the whole."
"If so," answered Simon, "with this glittering gold I will
buy an habitation for the oppressed, where they may live in
peace and rest."
Poor simple Simon though despis'd,
Soon made his skill and valour pris'd,
And prov'd bold Eobin Hood ;
The Frenchman's gold when he possessed,
He rais'd a dwelling for th' oppress'd,
And made his promise good.
The Noble Fisherman, or Robin Hood's Preferment.
Black letter copies in the British Museum, Ac.
In summer time, when leaves grow green,
When they doe grow both green and long, —
Of a bold outlaw, call'd Robin Hood,
It is of him I sing this song.
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When the lily leafe, and the elephant,*
Doth bud and spring with a merry cheere,
This outlaw was weary of the wood side,
And chasing of the fallow deere.
The fishermen brave, more mony have
Than any merchants two or three ;
Therefore I will to Scarborough go,
That I a fisherman brave may be.
This outlaw called his merry men all,
As they sat them under the green-wood tree :
If any of you have gold to spend,
I pray you heartily spend it with me.
Now, quoth Kobin Hood, He to Scarborough go,
It seems to be a very faire day.
He took up his inn at a widdow woman's house,
Hard by upon the water gray,
Who asked of him, where wert thou born ?
Or tell to me where dost thou fare ?
I am a poor fisherman, 6aid he then,
This day entrapped all in care.
What is thy name, thou fine fellow,
I pray thee heartily tell it to mee ?
In my own country, where I was born,
Men call me Simon over the Lee.
Simon, Simon, said the good wife,
I wish thou mayest well brook thy name.
The out-law was aware of her courtesie,
And rejoyced he had got such a dame.
Simon, wilt thou be my man ?
And good round wages He give thee ;
I have as good a ship of my own,
As any sails upon the sea.
Anchors and planks thou shalt not want,
Masts and ropes that are so long.
And if you thus do furnish me,
Said Simon nothing shall goe wrong.
They pluckt up anchor, and away did sayle,
More of a day then two or three :t
When others cast in their baited hooks,
The bare lines into the 6ea cast he.
* de-plant.
t Then is still the common pronunciation of. than. The reference to
Hompton Park, near Knaresborongh, the yerb " ligge," Ac, indicate a York-
shire author for this ballad.— Ed.
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It will be long, said the master then,
Ere this great lubber do thrive on the sea ;
I'll assure you he shall have no part of our fish,
For in truth he is no part worthy,
0 woe is me 1 said Simon then,
This day that ever I came here 1
1 wish I were in Plompton park,
In chasing of the fallow deere.
For every clown laughs me to scorne,
And they by me set nought at all ;
If I had them in Plompton park,
I would set as little by them all.
They pluckt up anchor, and away did sayle,
More of a day then two or three,
But Simon spied a ship of warre,*
That sayled towards them most valorously.
0 woe is me ! said the master then,
This day that ever I was born !
For all our fish we have got to-day,
Is every bit lost and forlorn.
For your French robbers on the sea,
They will not 6pare of us one man,
But carry us to the coast of France,
And ligge [lay] us in the prison strong.
But Simon said, doe not feare them,
Neither, master, take you no care :
Give me my bent bow in my hand,
And never a Frenchman will I spare.
Hold thy peace, thou long* lubber,
For thou art nought but brag and boast ;
If I should cast thee over-board,
There's but a simple lubber lost.
Simon grew angry at these words,
And so angry then was he,
That he took his bent bow in his hand,
And in the ship hatch goe doth he.
Master, tye me to the mast, saith he,
That at my mark I may stand fair,
And give me my bent bow in my hand,
And never a Frenchman will I spare.
He drew his arrow to the very head,
And drew it with all might and maine,
And straightway, in the twinkling of an eye,
To the Frenchman's heart the arrow's gane.
' rTiand~
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The Frenchman fell down on the ship hatch,
And under the hatches « there ' below ;
Another Frenchman, that him espied,
The dead corpse into the sea doth throw.
0 master, loose me from the mast, he said,
And for them all take you no care ;
For give me my bent bow in my hand,
And never a Frenchman will I spare.
Then straight they boarded the French ship,
They lyeing all dead in their sight ;
They found within that ship of war,
Twelve thousand pound of mony bright.
The one halfe of the ship, said Simon then,
I'll give to my dame and her children small ;
The other halfe of the ship I'll bestow
On you that are my fellows all.
But now bespake the master then,
For so, Simon, it shall not be,
For you have won it with your own hand,
And the owner of it you shall be.
It shall be so as I have said,
And, with this gold, for the opprest
An habitation I will build,
Where they shall live in peace and rest.
®b* Iftsfro: %ab of tSEbitljs-
My lover was a fisher lad, and when he came ashore
He always steer'd straight home to me, to greet me at the door,
For well he knew that I loved him, as any one could see,
And few can judge how fain was I, when he came courting me.
It was a lovely, genial morn, in th' early part of May,
He took me in his little boat to sail upon the bay ;
He told me of his ardent love, as he sat by my side,
And said that ere a month had flown, he'd take me for his bride.
A Man-of-War that afternoon swooped down upon the bay,
The cruel Press-gang came and took my fisher lad away ;
Strong chains upon his hands they placed, and irons on his feet,
They carried him abroad that day to fight among the fleet.
My father often talks about the perils of the Main,
My mother often says she hopes he will come back again,
Alas I I know he never will, for in my dreams I see
His body lying low beneath the surging of the sea.
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I watch the ships come sailing in, I watch them sail away,
I hear the sailors' merry songs resound across the bay ;
For me ; my heart is breaking, and I only wish to be
A-lying with my lover low, deep down in yonder sea.
When all the house is dark and still, and every one asleep,
I sit for hours npon my bed and bitterly I weep,
And think of my dear fisher lad, away down in the sea,
Who never, never, never more, will come again to me.
Shipley, April 12th, 1887. H.
<&n some of out Cngltsfr Itumrg fUjgnus:
Their origin and meaning. A paper read before the Leeds
& District Teachers' Association, by Alfonzo Gardiner, Head
Master of the Little Holbeck Board Schools, Leeds, October
28rd, 1886.
" I am afraid the magnitude of this subject has almost over-
whelmed me. To take only a very small number of our popular
nursery rhymes and trace their origin and meaning, entering
fully into the circumstances which brought them into being,
and which have caused them to be passed on from father to son,
with scarcely the variation of a word, and with no variation in
meaning, through hundreds of years, in many cases, would be
the task of a life-time.
The study of these popular sayings is but a sub-section of
that immense department of antiquities or archaeology called
folk-lore — a word invented by the late Mr. Thorns— which is used
to designate all that which relates to ancient observances and
customs, and to those ideas, prejudices, superstitions, legends
and sayings, which are the common property of English people
—especially among the lower orders, but to a less extent, and
in varying degrees, permeating all society. In illustrating
particular periods of history, folk-lore is sometimes a most
valuable adjunct. Many of our nursery rhymes have a strictly
historical origin (as I hope to show more fully in a few
moments,) and well illustrate the popular feeling of the day.
But it is to be observed that whilst folk-lore has now for some
years been engaging the attention of literary men, and has
been put beyond the risk of oblivion by appearing in books, it
is everywhere declining among the people themselves. Any
careful student of children's literature — I mean original litera-
ture, such as is found in «• Little Folks," " St. Nicholas," "The
Infant's Magazine," and a number of other excellent periodicals
for the nursery and the school-room — will be struck by two
great facts. (1) That pithy sayings, funny stories, and side-
splitting verses are produced in great abundance, many of them
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showing high literary skill and ability, but that (2) very few of
them become popular— i.e. the common property of the whole
people, except to a very limited extent. I cannot myself call
to mind a single instance of any of these marvellous produc-
tions, born within the last 50 years, obtaining and retaining a
permanent footing either amongst old or young. The reason
of this is not perhaps far to seek. Our habits and customs
change as do the fashions of our dress, and the same causes
which have produced a decline in folk-lore in one direction pre-
vent its growth in another one. Printing and the multiplication
of books has not been an unmixed good. It is somewhat foreign
to our subject to trace the causes which have altered the habits
of our forefathers, who without books handed down from sire to
son, the popular sayings, legends, and rhymes, which are now
considered only suitable for the nursery, but we may point out
one or two circumstances which have conduced to this effect.
The diffusion of scientific ideas ; the gradual enlightenment of
the common mind (which has banished fairies, witches, and all
the host of supernatural beings to the realms of fancy), the
disfavour of the clergy for everything connected with the super-
natural, except Religion itself, and the great industrial changes
and improvements of the last half century, including a greatly
increased shifting of the people from one district to another,
have all given a death blow to vulgar errors and rustic sayings.
Equally interesting would it be to trace a few of our popular
rhymes, legends and sayings from their original home in India,
Egypt, and Scandinavia, through all civilised Europe, and to
show that the same story, often with only slight modifications,
is the common property of the Negro and the Kaffir, the low
caste Hindoo of the Panjab and the Bed Indian of North
America, the Samoyed of the icy Tundras of Siberia and the
cannibal Fijian. But this entrancing and alluring branch of
the subject is also foreign to our purpose to-day.
We will first glance at a few historical rhymes, and commence
with what is undoubtedly* the oldest of all our children's tales,"
Old Kino Cole.
" Old King Cole
Was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he,
lie called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers* three.
Every fiddler, he had a fine fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he ;
Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee,
went the fiddlers.
* ?, especially if pipe does not mean a musical instrument.
154 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Oh, there's none so rare
As can oompare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three."
" The venerable king would find few subjects here to-day to
acknowledge his monarchy of mirth, and this legend is a satire
on one of the most mythical kings of Britain, who reigned (if
he did reign,) in the third century after Christ. He appears to
have been a brave and popular man in his day. According to
Robert of Gloucester (who flourished in the reign of Ed. I.) he
was the father of the celebrated St. Helena, a York worthy, the
mother of Constantino the Great, who, at the age of 80, is said
to have assisted at the discovery of the holy cross.
There are several popular ballads about King Arthur (who is
said to have died at Glastonbury in the year 542 from wounds
reoeived at the fatal battle of Camlan,) but they have scarcely
become such a part of our children's literature as to be included
amongst Nursery Rhymes.
The famous outlaw Robin Hood occupies however a large
space in our popular literature, but probably the following is
the only rhyme which has filtered down until it has become the
common property of our children."
" Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
Is in the mickle wood !
Little John, Little John,
He to the town is gone.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
Is telling his beads,*
All in the green wood,
Among the green weeds.
Little John, Little John,
If he comes no more,
Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
He shall fret full sore ! "
" Of R. H's. actual existence little or no evidence can be
discovered. Various periods, ranging from the time of Rd. II.
to near the end of Ed. I.'s. reign, have been assigned as the
age in which he lived. He is usually described as a yeoman,
and his chief residence is said to have been the forest of
Sherwood, in Notts and South Yorks. He is also to us, in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, a local celebrity, as his burial place,
marked by an old tomb- stone, is still shown at Eirklees Hall,
about 8 miles from Huddersfield. According to the most
authentic version of the inscription, which was formerly on this
tomb-stone, he died in 1247. Whether or not his existence is
only legendary, all the popular tales, stories, and rhymes, extol
his personal courage, his generosity, his humanity, and his skill
* Saying his prayers.
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in archery. He is first mentioned by the Scottish historian
Fordun, (who died in 1886, just 500 years ago). He was an
immense favourite with the common people, for, says Fordun,
" he suffered no woman to be oppressed, violated or molested :
poor men's goods he spared, abundantly relieving them with
that which by theft he got from Abbeys and the houses of rich
Earles." According to one tradition, R. H. and his follower,
Little John, were two heroes defeated, with Simon de Montfort,
at the battle of Evesham, in 1265. His chaplain Friar Tuck,
and his paramour, Maid Marian, are also immortalised in
numberless rhymes and ballads. *
Another oft repeated rhyme is the following, which probably
refers to the visit of Joanna of Castile to the court of Henry VIL
in the year 1506."
" I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
" But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear ;
" The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me
" And all was because of my little nut-tree.
" I skipped over water, I danced over sea,
" And all the birds in the air couldn't catch me."
"The satire is very fine, and is another exemplification of the
proverb, " There is nothing new under the sun." As Joanna's
visit was apparently for what she could get from rich England,
so, according to radical prints, do German princes, and other
foreigners, come here, not for the " silver nutmegs and golden
pears," but for the tax-payer's sovereigns through the hands of
our lovely princesses.
The reign of good Queen Bess furnishes several popular
rhymes of which the following is the best known."
" Good Queen Bess was a glorious dame,
When bonny King Jemmy from Scotland came ;
We'll pepper their bodies,
Their peaceable noddies,
And give them a crack of the crown."
"Here the hatred between the English and Scotch shows itself
very strongly. We now come to a less known rhyme, but one
which has had in its origin a most important effect upon our
national life."
" Ho I Master Teague, what is your story ?
I went to the wood and killed a Tory ;
* At Castleton in Cleveland the Editor saw a public-house sign, Easter,
1887, with the following inscription under a rude painting of Hohin Hood and
little John, armed with long bows :
" Blind gentleman and yeoman good,
Come take a glass with Robin Hood ;
If Robin Hood be not at home,
Then take a glasB with Little John."
John licensed retailer, Ac.
A similar sign exists at Brighonse, near which is Robin Hood's Mill.
156 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
I went to the wood and killed another
Was it the same, or was it his brother ?
I hunted him in, and I hunted him out,
Three times through the bog about and about ;
When out of a bush I saw his head,
So I fired my gun, and shot him dead."
11 Not very pleasant this for Mr.' Tory, but probably Mr. Tory
might now retaliate and sing : "
" What is your story, oh ! Mr. Teague ?
I went to the wood and killed a whig."
&c, Ac.
" The word Tory, says De Foe, is the Irish toruigh, and was
used in the reign of Queen Elizabeth to signify a band of Irish
Bobbers, from the verb toruighim, to make sudden raids.
Orolius says " whatever inhabits mountains and forests is a
Tory." According to Lord Macaulay it was first used in a
political sense in 1680. He says, " The name Tory, was first
given to those who refused to concur in excluding James from
the throne," and he further explains that " The bogs of Ireland
afforded a refuge to popish outlaws, called Torys," and Tory
hunting was long a favourite pastime."
[It may be mentioned incidentally that there are other
derivations of the word tory.* One is from the Celtic taobh-righ,
i.e. the " King's party ; " or from tuath-righ, i.e. " partisans of
the King." Another derivation is from tar-a n, " Come 0 King"
and still another suggestion is the highwayman's demand torn,
toree, " Give ! your money or your life I " Well may we say
" See from what small beginnings do great causes spring."]
Another popular rhyme explains itself —
" Please to remember,
The Fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot ;
I know no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot."
"The unworthy favourite of James I., Geo. Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham is satirised in the following lines. They were
written in 1626. It will be remembered that B. was assassin-
ated at Portsmouth by Felton, a lieutenant, in 1628."
" There was a monkey climbed up a tree,
When he fell down, then down fell he,
There was a crow sat on a stone
When he was gone, then there was none.
There was an old wife did eat an apple,
When she had eat two, she had eat a couple.
•See Oliver Heywood's Dairies,— Tory, in index. Ed. by J. Horefall Tnxotf*
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 157
There was a horse going to the mill,
When he went on he stood not still.
There was a butcher cut his thumb,
When it did bleed, then blood did come.
There was a cobbler clouting shoon,
When they were mended, they were done.
There was a chandler making candle,
When he them stripped, he did them handle.
There was a navy went into Spain,
When it returned, it came again."
" In a popular riddle of the 17th century the allusion to
Oliver Cromwell explains itself. It runs thus — "
" Purple, yellow, red and green,
The King cannot reach it nor the Queen,
Nor can old Noll whose power's so great :
Tell me this riddle while I count eight."
" The answer is "a rainbow." I may bring this division of my
subject, viz. strictly historical rhymes, to a conclusion by
referring to the famous song of the Lion and Unicobn — "
" The lion and the unicorn
Were fighting for the crown ;
The lion beat the unicorn
All round about the town,
Some gave them white bread,
Some gave them brown ;
Some gave them plum cake,
And sent them out of town."
"The animosity still existing between England and Scotland
is well represented in these few lines. Ever since 1608 the
royal arms have been supported by the English lion and the
Scotch unicorn, James I. substituting this mythical animal for
the red dragon of Wales, introduced by Henry VH."
[It is interesting to note the various supporters used by our
sovereigns. Ed. III. (with whom supporters began) had a lion
and an eagle ; Ey. IV. an antelope and a swan ; Hy. V. a liQn
and an antelope ; Ed. IV. a lion and a bull ; Bd. III. a lion
and a boar ; Hy. VII. a lion and a red dragon ; Eliz., Mary,
and Henry Yin. a lion and a greyhound.]
"Amongst miscellaneous rhymes the number of popular ones
ia exceedingly numerous, and a selection of a few amongst
those best known is all I shall have time for. Taking them
almost at random the first that occurs to me is the famous
Taffy was a Welshman."
" Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not at home ;
Taffy came to my house and stole a marrow bone.
158 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not in ;
Taffy came to my house and stole a silver pin ;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was in bed,
I took up a poker and flung it at his head."
" Taffy of course is a corruption of David, one of the most
common of Welsh names, familiarly, David becomes Davy,
and in Welsh Taffid, and then our Taffy. Properly this rhyme
has a historical origin, and graphically describes the raids of
the English and the Welsh on the borders of the two countries
with national pride giving our own countrymen the advantage.
Again, history, and the social condition of the people as
affected by religious influences, enables us to give the origin
and meaning of the famous Little Jack Hornbb. "
" Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,
Eating a Christmas pie ;
He put in his thumb, and he pulled out a plum,
And said * What a good boy am I ! ' "
"The rhyme of Jack Horner has been stated to be a satire on
the Puritanical aversion to Christmas pies and such like abom-
inations. It forms part of a metrical chap-book history, founded
on the same story as the Friar and the Boy, entitled "The
pleasant history of Jack Horner, containing his witty tricks
and pleasant pranks, which he played from his youth to his
riper years: right pleasant and delightful for winter and
summer's recreation;" embellished with frightful woodcuts,
which have not much connection with the tale. Another ex-
planation goes back to the dissolution of the monasteries, and
gives S. W. England as the scene.
Little Jack Horner is often spoken of as a sample of a shrewd
fellow, how different from Tom, the Piper's Son — "
" Tom, Tom the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away he ran,
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom went roaring down the street."
" Here we have a poor stupid thief who being caught, got well
bdsted, and blubbered like a booby. Many of our nursery
rhymes turn the table upon the foolish and the simple, making
them a common butt, and holding them up to ridicule. Ai
further examples we may mention — "
" Simple Simon met a pieman
Going to the fair : &o.
" The wise men op Gotham, who under the title of the "fools
of Gotham " are mentioned in the 15th century in the Townley
mysteries, is another example.
Another similar example is the following, the original of
many rhymes, all having the same meaning."
" My father he died, but I can't tell you how,
He left me six horses to drive in my plough ;
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With my wing wang waddle oh,
Jack sings saddle oh,
Blowsey boys babble oh,
Under the broom.
I sold my six horses, and bought me a cow,
I'd fain have made a fortune, bnt did not know how.
With my, &c.
I sold my cow, and I bought me a calf,
I'd fain have made a fortune, but lost the best half.
With my, &c.
I sold my calf, and I bought me a cat ;
A pretty thing she was, in my chimney corner sat :
With my, Ac.
I sold my cat, and bought me a mouse ;
He carried fire in his tail, and burnt down my house:
With my, &c."
"I stated at the commencement of this paper that numbers of
our nursery rhymes have retained their present form, in some
instances, for many generations, with but few changes of words
and with none of meanings. It is, however, especially interest-
ing to take note of divergent forms, and to notice how the
original and the derivative still exist, side by side. In 1587,
there appeared, at Frankfurt, a most celebrated book entitled
14 History of Dr. Jno. Faustus, tht notorious sorcerer and black artist,11
*This book became instantly popular, and Dutch, French, and
English translations speedily followed each other, the latter in
1590. From these Marlow appears to have obtained the mater-
ials for his " Dr. Faustus " (which was first acted in London in
1598), and Goethe the main lines of the first part of his immortal
"Faust." The hero of these mythical tales was one of the most
celebrated legendary personages at the period of the Reformation,
and many superstitions still cling around his name on the con-
tinent. He is represented as a student who is toiling after
knowledge beyond his studies, and makes a compact with the
Devil (Mephistophiles), in pursuance of which he gives himself
up to the full enjoyment of the senses, until the hour of his
doom arrives, when M. re-appears upon the scene, and carries
off his victim as a condemned soul. In addition to the numer-
ous stories, including all that foretokens the terrible abyss of
hell, all popular wit groups itself in Germany round Faust, and
many nursery rhymes recount his wonderful deeds. One of
these rhymes almost literally translated found its way into
England in the 17th century, and still retains, in a modified
form, its popularity — "
* The only complete copy of the original now known is in the Imperial
Library at Vienna.
160 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
" Doctor Faustus was a good man,
He whipped his scholars now and then ;
When he whipped them he made them dance
Ont of Scotland into France,
Out of France into Spain,
And then he whipped them back again."
" Without being personal, I may remind you that the version
of to-day runs thns, and those who have resided in various parts
of England will remember that the actual phraseology is the
same throughout the length and breadth of the land — "
" Mr. (Blank) is a very good man,
He learns his scholars all he can
Beading, Writing, 'Bithmetio,
But he doesn't forget to use his stick.**
" It is but right to say that it appears this affectionate summing
up of the many virtues of their masters was for long the special
property of the Public Schools, the youths of the Grammar
Schools next lisped in similar numbers, and finally our own
beloved pupils lovingly tell their fellows in exactly the same
form of words, of our tender care for their welfare.
In the year 1589 appeared a cookery book chiefly consisting
of foreign receipts, called Epulario, or the Italian bouquet.
Numerous quaint conceits and surprises are there explained,
and amongst them is a receipt " to make pies, so that the birds
may be alive in them and fly out when it is cut up.*' Of course
this was a mere device, live birds being introduced under the
crust after the pie is cooked. It is highly probable that this
was the original of
" Sing a song of sixpence,
A bag full of rye ; " &c.
It is exceedingly probable that Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night
(Act II., Scene 8) refers to this song when he says to the clown
" Come on, here's sixpence for you, lets have a song," and the
first line is accurately quoted in Beaumont and Fletcher's
" Bonduca." As to the other references it is impossible to trace
them, but the use of the term " counting-house" for what we
now call a study, or private room, is somewhat curious, and rye
bread and honey are yet country fare. Songs of sixpence, like
songs about London Bridge, seem to have been great favourites
with our forefathers. Here is a charming little love-song, not
so well known as to be called popular, but full of sweet simpli-
city—
" I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence,
I love sixpence, better than my life." Ac.
Another old favourite has suffered alteration, with consider-
able advantage as regards poetical feeling, but with less regard
to historical accuracy. Little Bo-peep is now generally repre-
sented as a girl, but the original runs thus — "
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44 Little Bo-peep has lost his sheep,
And can't tell where to find them ; " &c.
The present century has made the change from male to
female, and since the appropriation of the tale as the subject of
Christmas pantoniimo, viz. the loss of the sheep by the wicked
machinations of evil genii, and their rescue and return by the
aid of the good fairy, Bo-peep has become, and is likely to
remain, the heroine rather than the hero, of the touching tale.
The story has a good moral, for the loss of the tails (when the
sheep were frightened away by the injudicious sheep-watcher,
Bo-peep meaning f tightener) is intended to show that an evil
coarse (the running away) always results in disaster.
Supercilious critics have for many years been in the habit of
telling us that we are an unmusical nation, and that, in the
matter of popular music, we have sadly degenerated since the
days of good Queen Bess, when every lady and gentleman was
able to take a proper part in rounds, madrigals, and part songs.
Many of these old songs have been handed down to us, and
now please the children in the nursery as they formerly minis-
tered to the pleasure of adults. The ever fresh Three Blind
Mice is a well known example ; and the following, which is the
original from which the tale of the Frog who would a wooing
go is borrowed, was formerly a great favourite —
" A Frog he would a- wooing go,
Heigho, says Rowley, &c."
It appears with music in Melismata, a collection of popular
songs, published in 1611. It also appears in the celebrated
Pills to Purge Melancholy, published in 1719. The Stationer's
Company, in 1580, licensed a little book called A most strange
wedding of Hie frog and the mouse.
In the book just mentioned, " Pills to Purge Melancholy,"
we also find the story of Tom the Piper's Son, who charmed
every one with his playing. It forms part of a much longer
song called, The Jockey's Lamentation.
" Tom he was a piper's son,
He learned to play when he was young ;
But all the tunes that he could play
Was " Over the hills and far away."*
[A Galderdale jingle runs—
" Hokey Pokey had a lad,
He bought a fiddle to make him mad, (vexed)
But all the tunes (i.e. the only tune) that he could play,
Was Hokey Pokey fiddle away."
We have seen it stated that the saying of the priest Hoc est
corpus (This is the body) is parodied by these lines. Now a
sort of toffy is known as Hokey Pokey. — Ed.]
* A popular country dance.
y.f-l. l
162 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
The old Greek story of Orpheus and the magical lyre pre-
sented to him by Apollo, at once presents itself to our mind.
It will be remembered that Orpheus accompanied the Argonauts
on their expedition for the golden fleece. He was instructed
by the Muses in the use of the Lyre, and with its music be
enchanted not only the wild beasts, but the trees and rocks
upon Olyinpus, so that ihey moved from their places to follow
the sound of his golden harp. The rhyme is further interesting
as containing a reference to another popular story, that of
Dame Teot and hee Comical Cat.
I have already given an example of a riddle, an old nursery
rhyme of historical origin. Another one, which is vastly
popular, merits a few words of explanation.
Humpty Duinpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
Threescore men and threescore more,
Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before.
Of course we all know the answer an egg ; but how came it
about that this should be the. answer. Humpty means having <i
hump and dumpty is a corruption of dumpy % short and thick, the
two together have the meaning of short, thick and round, hence
an egg.
Of short rhymes recounting some sad disaster, none is better
known than the touching story of Jack and Jill. This appears
to be one of the most ancient. of our nursery rhymes, and
represents, in the two names, the complete amalgamation of
the Saxon and Norman stock in the nation. Jack of course is
the 8axon cbrruption of the French Jacque, the Jacobus f or
James ; Jill is a corruption of Julienne, which was in vogue
among the Norman families and long prevailed in England
under the spelling Julyan, becoming at last so common as
Gillian that Jill was the regular companion of Jack as in the
rhyme. One more example and I will bring these desultory
remarks to a close. In Sir B. F. Burton's translation of the
" Thousand Nights and a Night,1' just issued at Benares, is a
tragical tale called The Dbop op Honey, which has a curious
resemblance .to the accumulative nursery rhymes such as The
House that Jack Built, and which find their indirect original
in an allegorical Talmudic Hymn. The story of the Dbop of
Honey narrates how a hunter found a hollow tree full of bees'
honey some of which he took home in a water-skin. In the
city he sold the honey to an oilman, but in emptying out the
skin a drop fell to the gronnd, whereupon the flies flocked to
it; and a bird swoops down upon the flies. Then the oilman's
cat springs upon the bird, and the huntsman's dog flies at the
cat, and the oilman kills the dog, and the huntsman kills the
oilman, and lastly the men of their respective villages take up
the quarrel and fight " till there died of them much people*
YORKSHIBE FOLK-LORE. 18$
none knoweth their number save Almighty Allah." The story
is only curious as showing how far and away is possibly the
source of our nursery tales. Traced to their home they become
veracious and characteristic anecdotes, for in the present case
nothing can be truer to the life than the above account of the
origin of a desolating war, and Arab history is full of petty but
sanguinary campaigns caused by the most ridiculous of trifles.
But the source of both these tales is a Talmudic hymn of
which a translation was first given in 1781 by Professor
Lebrecht of Leipsic. The original from which the Hebrew
version was translated is in the Chaldee language, this I will
now read you and then give the interpretation.
1. A kid, a kid my father bought
For two pieces of money.
2. Then came the cat and ate the kid,
That my father bought,
For two pieces of money, &c.
This is the interpretation —
1. The kid which was one of the pure animals denotes the
Hebrews. The father, by whom it was purchased, is Jehovah,
who represents Himself as sustaining this relation to the
Hebrew nation. The two pieces of money signify Moses and
Aaron, through whose mediation the Hebrews were brought
out of Egypt.
2. The cat denotes the Assyrians by whom the ten tribes
were carried into captivity.
8. The dog is symbolical of the Babylonians.
4. The staff signifies the Persians.
5. The fires indicates the Grecian Empire under Alexander
the Great.
6. The ftater betokens the Romans, or the fourth of the
great monarchies, to whose dominion the Jews were subjected.
7. The ox is a symbol of the Saracens, who subdued Pales-
tine and brought it under the Caliphate.
8. The butcher that killed the ox denotes the Crusaders, by
whom the Holy Land was wrested out of the hand of the
Saracens.
9. The angel of death signifies the Turkish power, by which
the land of Palestine was taken from the Franks, and to which
it is still subject.
10. The commencement of the tenth stanza is designed to
show that God will take signal vengeance on the Turks, im-
mediately after whose overthrow the Jews are to be restored to
their own land and live under the government of their long
expected Messiah.
Along with much that appears to be very nonsensical and
almost devoid of meaning I have endeavoured to show that
either in their origin, or in their explanation, there is much
164 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
that is carious, beautiful and true. I may appropriately con-
clude with the Quaker's commentary upon one of the greatest
favourites — Hey ! diddle diddle.
" Hey ! diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle —
["Yes, thee may say that, for that is nonsense."]
The cow jumped over the moon —
[" Oh no I Mary, thee mus'n't say that, for that is a falsehood;
thee knows a cow could never jump over the moon ; but a cow
may jump under it ; so thee ought to say — ( The cow jumped
under the moon.' " Yes—]
The cow jumped under the moon ;
The little dog. laughed —
["Oh, Mary, stop. How can a little dog laugh ? thee knows a
little dog can't laugh. Thee ought to say — ' The little dog
barked.1 "— ]
To see the sport,
And the dish ran after the spoon."
[" Stop, Mary, stop, a dish could never run after a spoon ;
thee ought to know that. Thee had better say — 'And the cat
ran after the spoon.' "]
fjtarhsbir* ^ntljologg.
The YorksMre Weekly Post is now engaged in the very laud-
able undertaking of "rescuing from oblivion" such fugitive
pieces of poetry of Yorkshire writers as deserve preservation.
But I fear the columns of a newspaper will not prove to be a
very safe repository for the literary gems it may be the means
of rescuing from oblivion. Few newspapers survive their fiery
doom, and if by chance a few of such fugitive pieces find their
way into the scrap-books of enthusiastic collectors, they are as
good as lost, for a scrap-book is soon discarded, and generally
turns up in a miscellaneous lot at an auction, if indeed it does
not share a more ignominious fate.
I therefore with all humility venture to follow the excellent
example set by the Yorkshire Weekly Post feeling sure that the
columns of Yorkshire Notes and Queries will be a safer repository
for the preservation of the choice specimens of obscure or
forgotten Yorkshire writers, than either the columns of a news-
paper or the pages of a scrap-book.
In a work entitled " The Old-Church Clock,"* published seven
years ago, I found the following exquisite lines, said to haye
been written by a youth named Herbert Knowles, at night in
Richmond churchyard, Yorkshire, a few weeks before he died.
• The Old-Church Clock, by Richard Parkinson, D.D., F.S.A., Canon of
Manchester. (Heywood & Bon, Manchester,) 1880.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 165
As the work referred to was published by subscription, only a
few ardent anthologists will have the pleasure of possessing
the poem : *
Lines wbitten in the chubchtard of Bichmond, Yorkshire,
bt Herbert Knowles.
• It is good for its to be here: if Thou tcilt let us make Iiere three
tabernacles, one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Klias. —
Matthew xvii. 4.
" Methinks it is good to be here ;
If thou wilt, let us build : but for whom ?
Nor Elias nor Moses appear,
But the shadows of eve that encompass the gloom,
The abode of the dead, and the place of the tomb.
Shall we build to Ambition ? Oh, no !
Affrighted he shrinketh away :
For see, they would pin him below
In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay,
To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey.
To Beauty ? Ah, no ! she forgets
The charms which she wielded before ;
Nor knows the foul worm that he frets
The skin which but yesterday fools could adore
For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore.
Shall we build to the purple of Pride,
The trappings which dizen the proud ?
Alas ! they are all laid aside ;
And here's neither dress nor adornment allow 'd,
But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.
To Riches ? alas ! 'tis in vain ;
Who hid, in their turns have been hid :
The treasures are squander'd again,
And here, in the grave, are all metals forbid,
But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin lid.
To the pleasures which Mirth can afford ?
The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ?
Ah ! here is a plentiful board,
But the guests are all mute at their pitiful cheer,
And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Shall we build to Affection and Love ?
Ah, no I they have wither'd and died,
Or fled with the spirit above :
Friends, brothers, and sisters are laid side by side,
Yet none have saluted, and none have replied.
# [The poem is found in several collections, and a notice of Knowles shall
appear in the next part. —Ed.]
160 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Unto Sorrow ? the dead cannot grieve ;
Not a sob, not a sigh meets mine ear,
Which compassion itself would relieve :
Ah ! sweetly they slumber, nor hope, love, nor fear ;
Peace, peace, is the watchword, the only one here.
Unto Death, to whom monarchs must bow ?
Ah, no ! for his empire is known ;
And here there are trophies enow :
Beneath, the cold dead, and around, the dark stone,
Are the signs of a sceptre that none may disown.
The first Tabernacle to Hope we will build,
And look for the sleepers around us to rise ;
The second to Faith, which insures it fulfilTd ;
And the third to the Lamb of the great sacrifice,
Who bequeath'd us them both when He rose to the
skies."
Can any reader of " Yorkshire Notes and Queries" give me
further particulars of this embryo poet, so early removed by
the hand of- death ? J. L. Satwell.
Ancient Hospitality. — In ancient times there stood a cross
at Sprotborough, near Doncaster, containing the following in-
scription on a brass plate : —
Whoso is hungry, and lists well to eat,
Let him come to Sprotborough for his meat,
And for a night and for a day
His horse shall have both corn and hay,
And none shall ask him when he goes away.
York Minster. — The popular notion respecting the constant
repairing of York Minster is that if ever the building be com-
pleted it returns to the .Roman Catholics ; or, according to
another version, it becomes the property of the Crown ("Croon,
the York dames say). Whence arose this idea ? J. W. M.
Yorkshire Bite. — I think Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith has been
somewhat misled in regard to the Richmond Pictorial Timts.
I am not aware that any paper with this title has been printed
at Richmond ; there was a paper published at Richmond, two-
thirds of which was printed in London, by John Bell, called
The North Bidiny Pictorial Journal, but I have a faint recollec-
tion that it only ran for about two years before it collapsed.
Number one lies before me bearing date January, 1857, and
the following is a copy of title :— " The North Biding Pictorial
Journal ; a repository of local and general Literature, History,
Biography, Archaeology, Science, Inventions and Improve-
ments, published monthly." In looking over several of the
earlier numbers I find no mention of the Tibby Tinkler enquired
about by Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith. In number 1 is commenced
YOBKSH^RE FOLK-LOBE. 167
a serial story,—" A Legend} of the Dales." It also contains a
poem entitled, " A Chronicle of Richmond Castle/' " A Bio-
graphical Sketch of Wycliffe," &c. Number 8 contains an
interesting poem — " The Return of the Dalesmen from Flod-
den," with woodcut views of Richmond and Bolton Castles, and
a paragraph ona" Yorkshireman's coat of arms, to wit : a fly,
a flea, a magpie, and a flitch of bacon," (applicable to Mr. H.
E. Smith's Yorkshire Bite), a cockney fling at the natives of
the north conn trie (and with cockneys all northerners are either
Scots or Yorkshiremen.) The cockneydom explanation is thai
a fly will drink with any man, so will a Yorkshireman ; a flea
will bite any man, so will a Yorkshireman, ; a magpie will
chatter with anyone, so will a Yorkshireman , and as for a
flitch of bacon it is of no worth until it is hung, ho more is a
Yorkshireman. The chronicler of this cutting saw begs leave
to say that although he is not a native of broad Yorkshire,
should the Londoners ever see proper to alter or make any
addition to the heraldic bearings of Yorkshire, they must not
omit to give a fighting cock as the Yorkshireman's crest, for a
Yorkshire game cock of the true breed will turn his tail upon
none of his species ; and as for a Yorkshire Tyke, I feel con-
fident that he would not only face three cockneys, but would
give them all one after another what iu his own country phrase
he would call a reet good benzilling. Jno. Routh, Hawes.
Gross Dakkness. — Sammy Senior's definition of gross dark-
ness (page 140) reminds me of Daniel Empsall, of Nab End,
Lightcliffe, an eccentric old bachelor who had a run of about
fifty-two churches every year to visit, one for each Sunday, and
necessitating very long walks in some instances. He was a
compendium of quaint sayings and old proverbs. When con-
gratulated on being at his work (wool combing) early, he would
say, " The early bird gets the worm," but if taunted for being
late he calmly replied, " It is not early rising, but well-spending
of the day you should strive after." Mr. Holland's carter had
backed the cart against Danny's window at Slead Syke, where-
upon Danny calmly went out and called aloud, with the
utmost gravity, "Darkness covereth the earth, but gross dark-
ness the people."
He is said to have invited himself to dinner at various clerical
houses by the peculiar request — " May I put my knees under
your table to-day"; but, as a rule, the clergymen spared him
the asking by inviting him to a feast in the kitchens, fiis
brother Jerry, also an old bachelor, wf0^e love-letters in
doggerel rhyme to the Misses Holland, and other grand ladies".
A beautiful water colour portrait of old Jerry, painted by the
Lightcliffe worthy, Lumb Stocks, R.A., was treasured by the
Holland family until recently.
168 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
YORKSHIRE CENTENARIANS.
I send you, as a supplement to the lists of Yorkshire Cente-
narians, the following obituaries, which I have gathered from
the Gentleman's Mag., The Annual Register, The Hull Advertiser,
and Hull Packet, hoping they will be interesting to your readers.
77, Spring St., Hull. W. G. B. Page.
"On November 18th, 1760, died Elizabeth Hodgson of
Scampston, near York, aged 110 years." — Annual Register,
1760, p. [146].
[Jan. 7th, 1820.] "At West End, in the parish of Fewston,
Yorkshire, in his 110th year, [died], Mr. John Demaine. The
chief amusement of his life was hunting, which he always pur-
sued on foot, and which he continued until within the last five
years of his life. He was never known to exchange his clothes,
however wet, and never experienced a day's confinement from
illness in his life. After he had attained his 100th year, he
complained that he was grown old, and could not leap over a
style or a ditch with his customary agility. — Gent. Mag., YoL
xc. (Jan.', 1820) p. 98.
" On the 16th inst. at Hal ton, near Leeds, after only a few
days' illness, Thomas Rollinson, gardener. He completed his
hundreth year on the 27th January last, and with the exception
of a recent loss of eyesight, had enjoyed uninterrupted good
health."— TJie Hull Packet, May 24, 1881.
" Feb. 2, [1882]. At Gasthwaite, Mr. Bernard Smith, aged
105. He was for many years blacksmith and farrier to Elliott's
Light Dragoons, into which he enlisted at Northallerton, in
1758 (the year in which it was first raised), and is supposed to
[have] be[en] the last survivor of the regiment as when first
formed, with the exception of one still living at Winslow,
Bucks."— Gent. Mag., (Feb., 1882), p. 189.
[June] 11 [1888]. " At Whitby, aged 104, Mr. Philip Daw-
son, leaving three surviving children (out of seven), seventeen
grandchildren, and forty-six great-grandchildren. — Annual
Register, 1838, p. 225.
[October] 21, [1838]. " At the Workhouse, Soarboro', aged
108, Margaret Screeton.* Until very recently, she was able
to walk ten miles a day. She remembered being at Carlisle
with her mother, during the rebellion in 1745." — Annual
Register, 1888, p. 247.
" Lately. At Karesborough, aged 101 , Edward Day, one of
the constables who arrested Eugene Aram, eighty years ago."
Gents. Mag., (June, 1886,) p. 677.
"At Beverley [East Yorkshire,] on Monday last, [November
28th, died] Mr. Thomas Hotham, baker, aged 102. He was a
• Local pronunciation of " Scraton."
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 169
livery-man of the city of London, and could relate several cir-
cumstances that occurred during the reign of George the
Second."— Hull Advertiser, Friday, Dec. 2, 1886.
" There is now living in the immediate vicinity of Sharrow
Mills, near Sheffield, a female, named Elizabeth Grey, in the
107th year of her Age"— Hull Advertiser, Friday, Sept. 15, 1848.
"On Thursday, the 10th inst., [Nov., 1886, died] at Hatfield
Woodhouse, near Thome, in her 100th year, Mrs. Betty Smith.
This remarkable woman retained all her faculties nearly to the
last, and having resided all her life-time in the above neigh-
bourhood, could relate several curious facts connected with its
bye-gone times; one incident she remembered was that of
butter being sold, in her youth, at Epworth Market, for two-
pence per pound. Had she lived until the 21st December, she
would have entered upon her 101st year, being born at Wroot,
in 1786."— Hull Advertiser, Friday, Nov. 25, 1886.
On a small funeral card, which came under my notice, some
time ago, was the following : —
In affectionate Remembrance of
MARY,
Relict of Samuel Slingsby,
Farmer, of Owston,
Who departed this life the 4th December, 1870,
Aged 100 years.
"Aged 107 [years], Michael Bailey, a native of Sherbourn,
co. York, and the person who sat for the painting called " The
Woodman." He was a very regular man, and from the age of
fifty, when he first came to London, till he attained his 100th
year, he was a day labourer." — GenVs. Mag., Vol. 85, (pt. 1,)
p. 644.
Henby Jenkins. — In the early part of the present century a
London bookseller printed on very poor paper a small book of
about 120 pages on Henry Jenkins, with a list of Yorkshire
centenarians, but the bulk of the book is a collection of recipes,
said to have been given by Jenkins to Miss Saville ! Ed.
Sib Habby Goodbicke, Bart., of Ribstone Hall,
. Yorkshire.
The following hunting song, which was sung at a compli-
mentary dinner given by the members of the Quorn Hunt,
Leicestershire, to Sir Harry Ooodricke, Bart., of Ribstone Hall,
Yorkshire, at Melton Mowbray, and published in TJie Hull
Packet, Oct. 18, 1881, will, no doubt, be interesting to many of
your readers : —
170 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Hunting Song, sting at a dinner lately given to Sir Harry
Goodricke, at Melton Mowbray.
That sire of the chase, our crack Nimrod, Old Meynell,
Once said to a true brother-sportsman at Quorn,
That the fame, and the fun, of a Leicestershire kennel
Should not cease till the sun ceased to gladden the morn :
He's gone, but each year proves how true the prediction —
Unmarr'd is our sport, undiminished our fame —
He's gone ; and this day shows his words were no fiction,
For hunting and Leicestershire still mean the same.
Chorus —
Then round with the bottle, and let it not tarry
While we hail, while we honor, the man of our choice ;
In a bumper come pledge me — the gallant Sir Harry,
Whom we love in our hearts, as we hail with our voice*
Other masters we've had, since the days of our glory,
Osbaldeston, and Sefton, Tom Smith, and the Grame,
Southampton, the last not the least in the story,
Giving Melton the main-spring, and Leistershire fame
And if for a season our joy has been clouded,
A day like the present's too happy for pain ;
In the prospect before us what pleasures are crowded,
For oh 1 in our Goodricke we've Meynell again.
Then round with the bottle, &c.
The Coplow again shall be famous in story,
And high be the deeds we shall do from Seg's Hill ;
And Melton once more, in the blaze of her glory
Under Goodricke shall thrive, under Goodricke shall fill.
Again shall our coverts like courts be attended,
Again .shall our " field-days " boast many a " star;"
The friends will return who have Melton befriended,
Moore, Forester, Kinnaird, Thynne, Marse and Maher.
Then round with the bottle, &c
And Alvanley too, shall Meltonian forget thee ?
Oh, never, while wit and while wine have a charm —
Thou too wilt return, tho' fresh banners beset thee,
And with joke, fun, and glee, all sorrow disarm.
And Chesterfield too, and our honor'd Be Wilton
Will cheer us, while Plymouth still comes in the train,
And the lord of the chase and the monarch of Melton
Shall be Harry of UibsUm [e] * success to his name.
Then round with the bottle, &c.
He died on the 22nd of August, 1888, and in The Annual
Eeyister for that year (pp. 284-285) is the following obituary
notice of him : —
• Ribstone Hall, Yorkshire, the family seat of Sir Q. Goodricke.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE. 171
"At Baverjsdale Park, go,. Louth, in his 86th year, Sir Efarry
James Goodricke, the seventh Baronet, of Rib stone Hall,
Yorkshire. This wealthy Nimrod was born Sept. 16, 1797, and
was the only son of Sir Henry, the sixth Baronet, hy Charlotte,
second daughter of the Rt. Hon. James Fortescuc, of Ravens-
dale Park, co. Louth. He succeeded to the baronetcy when
only in the fifth year of his age, on the death of his father,
March 23, 1802 ; and was educated at Rugby. The death of
bis maternal uncle, William Charles, second and last Viscount
Clermont, in March, 1829, left him possessed of very large
estates in Ireland ; and the aggregate of his income is said to
have amounted to £40,000 a year. He served the office of
Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1881. Sir Harry Goodricke had been
known in Leicestershire for the last ten years as a leading
member of the Quorn Hunt, of which he became Master on the
retirement of Lord Southampton two years ago. He kept the
whole of the establishment at his own expense. At the period
of his death seventy-five capital hunters were in his stables,
ready to commence the next season with renewed vigour and
spirit. In the voluntary duties which he had thus assumed,
Sir Harry Goodricke was exceedingly popular. His life was
finally sacrificed to his ardour in all the pursuits of the sports-
man. He had experienced an attack of influenza, from which
he had scarcely recovered, when he sailed in his yacht to visit
his Irish estates. He was there superintending considerable
improvements, and, when indulging in a favourite sport, that
of otter hunting, caught a severe cold, which proved fatal in
forty-eight hours." W. G. B. Page.
77, Spring St., Hull.
(Bbbitits.
Jack Peabsok, the Mendicant Poet and Village Gossip. — Can
any correspondent in or from the neighbourhood of Stanning-
ley, Bramley, or Farsley (where the above character lived)
answer any or all of the following questions relative to him : —
(1) What family did Pearson spring from, and are there any of
the family still living ? (2) Was he at all educated — could he
read or write ? (8) Are there any of his poetic effusions in
print or manuscript ? The reason of my asking these questions
is because I remember Pearson calling at my father's house
when I was quite a boy, and for a copper or other alms would
"on any subject " — on the marriage of a son or daughter, on
the birth of a child, or a piece of new furniture — quite im-
promptu, give several verses in rhyme bearing on these events
or articles, some of which, I have been told since, were of no
ordinary merit. My father told me the following story, of
which he was a witness: — Dr. Laycock, * the elder,' and a
172 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
. man of the name of Spence were standing talking in the Town-
gate of Bramley, when Jack chanced to pass. Says Spence
to the Doctor, " I'll bet you anything you like you can't say a
word or syllable of any kind, nor make any sort of noise or
sound, but Jack can put it into rhyme." " Done," says the
Doctor " for a bottle ; " and as Jack passed he called out with
a long " o-moo," whereupon Jack wheeled round at once and
said —
There's Doctor Laycock and Johnnie Spence,
Both of them are void of sense ;
They're like two bulls among some kye —
For they call moo — as I pass by.
Of course the Doctor lost his bottle, and good humouredly paid
for it. " Kye " is a word commonly used in the Bramley dis-
trict for cattle. It was always understood that Pearson conld
neither read nor write ; in fact, did not know A from B. He
was known as a gossip, carrying news from one place to
another, sometimes making no end of mischief, as some of the
stories he conveyed were enlarged and altered.
J. H. P., Bagby Fields, Leeds.
Peahson. — Mr. W. Northrop, writes to the Leeds Mercury
Supplement : — The parents of the poet were residents of Bram-
ley. They had a rather numerous family, some of whom may
be still living. I have often heard old people say that Jack
could neither read nor write, or, as they generally put it,
" could'nt tell a B from a bull's foot." I should think that
none of his rhymes ever found their way into print. One or
two things would prevent them from thus gaining publicity-
he could not write, nor could he repeat any lengthy rhyme
after its first utterance ; besides this, he never was known to
think out a rhyme, it was given impromptu invariably. His
rhymes were mostly in homely language, and sounded best
when given in the vernacular of his own birth-place. Jack
was a favourite in the weaving shops, and would reel his lines
out on any desired subject; and being of a rambling dis-
position, he was known all over the district. Sometimes he
would leave his home for weeks at a time and wander among
more distant patrons, and it was noticed that he generally
returned better clothed and in good condition, as if he had
found fat pasturage away from home. The rhyme given by
" J. H. P. " in last week's article has been credited to Jack
for these forty years or more, and when told by one of the
older inhabitants it sounds more piquant than it appears in
type. Timbs, on page 21 of his " Notabilia," tells the same
story of Burns, and gives the retort as follows : — Earl Crawford
and Lord Boyd being out in the country, observed a ploughman
leaning on his plough in deep thought. His Lordship re-
marked what a lazy fellow the ploughman must be ; whereupon
YOBKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 178
Crawford who had recognised the ploughman as Burns, chal-
lenged his Lordship to shout whatever he liked to the man, and
he would answer him in rhyme. ' I will try him,' said Boyd,
and at once bellowed out ' Bough ! ' like a bull. Burns quietly
turned round, took stock of him and of his companion, and
with becoming courtesy to Lord Crawford, said
'Tis not Lord Crawford, but Lord Boyd,
Of habits rude, and manners void,
Who like a bull among the rye,
Crys " Bough " at folks as he goes by.
I am afraid that these two stories are too much alike to be both
genuine. Burns had so many rare bits to his credit, that I
think he might have lost this without being much the poorer,
whilst our poor Jack is poor indeed when robbed of this, his
brightest utterance.
It is very hard to put a dialect rhyme into type without de-
stroying the metre, but there is one example of Jack's impromptu
efforts which I venture to give. The dinner was in prepara-
tion in one of the weavers' cottages, and the busy clack of the
shuttle had just ceased, whilst the weaver called out, " Mother,
what clock is it ? " This happened just as Jack Pearson en-
tered the house, and he at once answered the question by
calling out —
There's t'meit hung down before t'fire to roist,
There's pudding on t'brandree before it to toist,
Forates atop o' t'hob, they'll be enif soin,
But, I think tha can weive a few more bobbins by noin.
Mr. C. Benfield, Stanningley, contributes the following on
the same subject : —
Jack Pearson always went by the cognomen of "Bramley
Jack," and was bred and born in that village. I know nothing
of his family, but I have heard him say he had a brother living
at Kirkstall. He was totally uneducated, could neither read
nor write, in fact, appeared to be incapable of learning. The
only poetical effusion of his in print that I know of appeared
in the " Bramley Almanac " (I think for 1888) and is entitled
"Bramley Old Hall Ghost." I do not know who wrote the
words down, but it is most certainly a faithful production of
Jack's style and peculiarity of expression. Mr. J. Dawson,
Bramley, could probably supply this. My wife used to en-
courage Jack, for a few coppers, to recite his impromptu
rhymes, and for several years he seldom missed calling once or
twice a week. On one occasion, after he had been reciting, she
Mud, " Jack, I wonder where you get your talent from." The
effect this question produced was truly wonderful. His poor,
decrepit, attenuated form seemed to expand, and his thin,
wizened face to light up with sudden inspiration, and stretching
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forth his arm towards a cage containing a thrush, he com-
menced with a fire and energy quite startling —
You ask me whence my talent springs —
I ask you why that throstle sings ?
These two lines are all I can give in his own words, but for a
quarter of an hour he poured forth a stream of poetry of no
mean order, and used similes and comparisons of which, in his
ordinary state, he could neither comprehend nor understand
the application. He spoke of the beauty of the trees and
flowers and the various instincts of birds, animals and insects ;
and the sense of his concluding lines was that the God who had
lavished such beauty on the flowers and endowed His creatures
with such wonderful instincts had given him his talent. I
wished to write it down, and asked him if he could repeat it,
but he had relapsed into his usual condition, and could not re-
peat a single line of it. Before reciting he usually asked for a
bit of paper to hold in his hand ; a bit of coloured sugar -paper
would do as well as any other. Jack, if feeble-minded, was not
devoid of wit, and was often quick at repartee. He used to
visit Tong Hall once a quarter, and Colonel Tempest always
gave him half-a-crown. On one occasion the old Colonel
showed him half a sovereign and half a crown, and asked him
which he would have. " I'll not be greedy," Jack replied,
" I'll take the little one.'* I was much amused with the advice
I heard him give to a workman who had a bald head and was
of drunken habits. After telling him (iu rhyme) how foolish
he was to spend his money to provide fine caps for landladies,
while his own wife and children went barefoot, and to drink
fiery spirits till he had burnt all the hair from the top of his
head, he concluded with
I could put you up to a better rig,
You should save your money and buy a wig.
The Hal of Kibklees. Hal Pierson was an idiot, or an
" innocent," as weak persons are called in Yorkshire, who was
benevolently reared and protected by the family of Sir George
Armytage, about 120 years ago.* Hal, though weak of intellect,
was extremely shrewd, and even witty at times. He loved
money, as all fools and some wise men do. A casual visitor to
the family had given him half-a-crown. Hal was delighted;
# The gentleman mentioned would be Sir George Armytage, the third
Baronet, who died in 1738, leaving his estates to his cousin, Samuel Army-
tage, who was created a baronet July 4th, 1738. After the Rawaons ceased
to occupy the Manor House in Kirkgate, Bradford, it was occupied by John
Hardy, a partner in the Low Moor ironworks, and it was in that house the
present Lord Cranbrook was born. On the purchase of the manorial rights
for the sum of five thousand pounds, to be paid yearly to the hein of the
Bawson family, the building was destroyed, and the present covered market
in Eirkgate was erected.
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but he had heard in the servants' hall that money makes money,
and a vague wish arose in his mind to multiply, if possible, the
coin of which he had become possessed. There was a young
carpenter, named Robby, who worked by the year in the family,
and who, hearing Hal inquire how he might increase his
treasure, told him to put it in a hole in the wall, which Hal
immediately did. It is to be premised that this poor innocent
knew not the comparative value of silver or copper. Robby
taking advantage of his ignorance, and eager to play a trick
upon him, changed the coin for a few coppers, with which Hal
was at first much pleased ; but by and by, one of the under -
servants explained the matter, and Hal vowed vengeance against
the carpenter. Whether he executed it or not the reader will
presently see. Hal was always ready to do errands, and some-
times did them well. At all events he was no niggard of his
time or trouble, when he liked his employer. His will was good
but his power weak. At one time a young lady, Miss Jenny
Ayrton, being on a visit at Sir George Armytage's, to her great
vexation discovered that she had forgotten a rich pair of ruffles
and lappets. Everybody was busy ; much company was ex-
pected, and a splendid toilet was necessary. Poor Miss Jenny,
in all her sorrows of beauty and eighteen, addressed herself in
vain to the servants for a trusty messenger to despatch four
miles for these important articles. Not one could be spared,
until a good natured little dairymaid, a little cowslip of the
north, suggested an application to Hal Pierson. He could take
a message ; was very fond of Miss Jenny ; it was a fine day and
only four miles. But Hal had a dislike to carrying a note or
letter, ever since a celebrated humorist, in the practical joke
line, had given him a note desiring the bearer might be re-
warded for his pains with a tumbler of hot salt and water. No
— Hal would have nothing to say to a note, but cheerfully
undertook to go and fetch the ruffles and lappets. It was ex-
plained to him by Cowslip what they were, and he sapiently
replied, "I naw, Jinny Ayrton wants her handy-cuffs and
pinniers:" As his habit was never to walk, but to dance along,
clapping his hands as he went, this formed the burden of his
song, which helped him on the way. Arrived at the house, he
repeated his lesson, but no one knew what it meant, and to his
evident distress, he had to go back without his errand. On his
return he explained that they would not give him any "handy-
cuffs or pinniers,"
Miss Ayrton then tried again to make him understand by
showing him her every-day ruffles, but said that, being in the
country, she wished her best to be sent. He then willingly
undertook to return, though he had already walked or danced
eight miles in her service. This time he tried hard, and said
"ruffles and lappets'1 all the way; but he chanced to get a fall,
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which completed the before muddled state of his brains, and
when he rose he had only a vague recollection of cuffs and that
they should be smarter than usual in the country. So he ar-
rived at Miss Ayrton's home shouting out "Buff cuffs and
country cuffs." More puzzled than ever, the servants stood in
dismay, until, out of breath and patience with his now twelve
miles walk, Hal insisted upon having various articles of female
wardrobe exhibited to him, when his desire being complied
with, he quickly pounced upon the commodity wanted. Having
been allowed to take a pair of ruffles and lappets of rich point
lace, which he triumphantly attached to his walking staff, he
set out puffing and blowing upon his second return to Sir
George Armytage's, where he presented himself to the anxiously
expecting young lady, just in time to decorate her fair person
with the result of his sixteen miles labour. But he had his
reward, for Miss Ayrton smiled, and her smile was at that
period of her life witchcraft itself, even to such a being as Hal
Pierson. Hal wore Sir George Armytage's livery when he
chose, for he never was constrained by his kind benefactor,
whose motive for keeping him in his household was pure
benevolence.
Sauntering, as was his custom, one day by the river side, he
saw a young gallant riding on the other bank. Hal owed him
a grudge for once having given him a pinch of very strong snuff.
The young man had no remembrance of the joke, or the person
of the fool ; and he asked him if the river was fordable there.
Hal replied " Yes." " Are you sure ? Have you seen anyone
pass it to-day?" " Troth, I have— a most respectable family,
father, mother, and young ones," replied Hal; "they came over
right merrily this morn's morning." Upon this assurance the
young man put his horse to the stream, and though the animal
with instinctive sagacity, hesitated, whip and spur soon com-
pelled him to go in. It was wonderful that both were not
drowned. After a hard struggle, horse and rider gained the
bank, which Hal no sooner saw than he ran off, to avoid a re*
sentment expressed by menaces both loud and deep. The
cavalier made the best of his way to the great house, to prefer
his complaint against one bearing the Armytage livery, having
endangered his life. All the servants were summoned. He
could not identify the mischievous one, until someone suggested
the possibility of its being Hal Pierson. Hal was sought for
and brought into his presence ; but all he could be got to say
in answer to his master's queries and reproaches was that be
had seen a very respectable family pass that morning — the grey
drake, his duck, and ducklings, and therefore he guessed a goose
might do the same. Here was the pinch of snuff revenged.
Hal had hitherto never done anything dangerous; but Bobby
was yet to reap his reward for the dishonest tricks played upon
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poor Hal's half-crown, as well as for a long course of minor
tarings and annoyances. For some time Hal had contented
himself with hiding the young carpenter's tools, or telling tales
to his sweetheart, the pretty young housemaid; but Bobby at
last provoked him beyond what was safe with a being of his
order. Watching his opportunity one day, when, as usual after
dinner, he took a short nap in his workshop, Hal entered un-
perceived, and accomplished his purpose. He then returned to
the servants' hall. By his exulting looks the servants concluded
he had been in mischief, but thought no more about the matter.
Supper time came, and as Bobby was a merry fellow, and the
life of the party, his absence was remarked. At length Hal
observed, " I've played him a bonny trick this time." " Why,
what have you done now ? " cried the otherB, crowding round
him; "what have you hid now?" -"Ob, I've hid his head
under the shavings, and when he wakes he'll be troubled to find
it." Misgivings arose from this declaration, and they went in
body to the workshop to see what he had really done, when,
horrible to relate, it was found that the idiot had cut off the
unfortunate man's head while he slept, and hid it under the
shavings. Hal, who had accompanied them, seemed quite
astonished to find Bobby dead. He tried to put the head on
again, and, on finding the effort was of no use, burst into tears.
His. delinquency of course subjected him to a trial, which took
place at York, when, his imbecility being clearly proved, instead
of committing him for the remainder of his life to prison, the
judge gave him over to his humane protector, Sir George
Armytage, in whose family he remained well watched, but his
spirits never afterwards rallied. He was often found sitting by
a brook, mingling his tears with the stream. He never spoke
a word respecting the melancholy event, bat no power could
induce him to approach the workshop, or to take in his hand
any edged tool. He pined, and his weak intellect becoming
more and more feeble, his health suffered, and he died a pre-
mature old man, grey headed under thirty years of age. The
remembrance of Hal Pierson's balf-crown survived him, and
has become a bye-word to express any futile or wild scheme for
increasing money. Miss Jane Ayrton lived to nearly eighty
years of age, and, near the end of her days, communicated
these anecdotes to a descendant, the individual who now gives
them to the world. — Copied from an early number of Chamber*'
Edinburgh Journal,
As a gentleman with a very prominent nose was about to
visit Kirklees, the Hal was forewarned by Sir George not to
pass any remarks upon the peculiar proboscis. The visitor and
Hal never passed each other without the latter remarking
aloud — " What a nose ! if anybody dare mention one." This
has passed into a saying in the vicinity.
T.F-L. M
J76 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
A GhBISTKAS OABOL WHICH FORMERLY U8B1> TO BE SuHO
IN MlRFIELD,
Gome all ye jolly gentlemen, and hearken what I say,
Jesus Our Saviour was born on Christmas Day.
Here's to your Wassail, to your jovial Wassail,
Highest joy come to you, and to your Wassail.
■God bless the Master of this house, likewise the Mistress too,
And all the little children that round the table go.
Here's to your Wassail, &c.
We have not been a wand'ring among the leaves so green,
But we are come a Wassailing, so fairly to be seen.
Here's to your Wassail. &c.
We are not come to your door to beg or to borrow,
But we are come to your door to drive away all sorrow.
Here's to your Wassail, &c.
Tour Wassail cup is made of Rosemary tree,
And so is your beer of the best barley.
Here's to your Wassail, &c.
Bring us out a table, spread thereon a cloth,
And bring us out a mouldy cheese, likewise a Christmas loaf.
Here's to your Wassail, &c.
Good Master and good Mistress, sitting by the fire,
Bemember us poor children who are travelling in the mire.
Here's to your Wassail, &c.
We have a little purse, made of ratching leather skin,
Good Master and good Mistress, come line it well within.
Here's to your Wassail, &c.
You keep no Maid about this house, or we suppose you've none,
Or else you would not let us stand so long on this cold stone.
Here's to your Wassail, &c.
FOLK-LORE OF EOBIN HOOD.
I do not think there is any country so rich in proverbs, wise
sayings, and folk-lore as England is. In former days, when
books were scarce, proverbs were stored up in the memory and
used by the common people on all occasions. An enumeration
of these sayings would fill a volume. The name of Robin Hood
will be familiar to all my readers ; I will, therefore, give a few
with which his name is connected : —
1. — "As crooked as Robin Hood's bow," i.e., when bent or
strung. Thus, in a modern Irish song occurs —
The next with whom they did engage,
It was an old woman worn with age ;
Her teeth were like tobacco pegs ;
Besides, she had two bandy legs,
Her back more crooked than Robin Hood's bow, Ac.
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2.— ■" Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow;
And many talk of Little John that never did him know." Bay
gives it as above, Fuller mentions it in his "Worthies," as also
does Sir Edward Coke, in his " Institutes."
8. — "Robin Hood's choice— this or nothing," is used in the
same sense as " Hobson's Choice."
4. — " Come, turn about, Robin Hood," signifies that it re-
quired a large amount of " muscular Christianity " to challenge
this hero.
5. — "To go round by Robin Hood's barn," to go a short
distance, by a long road.
6. — " Good even, good Robin Hood." This is an allusion to
civility, extorted by fear, and Skelton uses it as such, in "Why
come ye not to court."
7. — "To sell Robin Hood's pennyworth," is spoken, says
Fuller, of things sold under half their value, or, if you will,
half sold — half given. Robin Hood came lightly by his ware,
and lightly parted therewith ; so that he could allow the length
of his bow for a yard of velvet. This was indeed discount for
cash, at the rate of about 50 per cent., as his bow would be, at
least, six feet from tip to tip.
8.—" Tales of Robin Hood are good for fools," is one of the
proverbs in Camden's " Remains," but Ray has it, " Tales of
Robin Hood are good enough for fools." Camden's version is,
of course, the oldest. The enough may have been an interpo-
lation between the time of Camden and Ray.
9.— "To overshoot Robin Hood" is quoted by Sir Philip
Sydney in his " Defence of Poesie." It probably meant mak-
ing irrational conclusions.
There are no fewer than a dozen lanes and alleys in London
alone called after him. Sometimes a rural publican whose
name is John hangs over his door the following lines : —
You gentlemen and yeomen good,
Come in and drink with Robin Hood ;
If Robin Hood be not at home,
Come in and drink with Little John.
This is the case on Epping Forest which was recently opened
by the Queen, and dedicated to the use of the people of London
for ever. There is a public-house about a couple of miles from
the terminus of the Great Eastern Branch Railway to Epping,
and this verse is painted oh the sign. It is related of a
publican, who rejoiced in the patronymic of Webster, adopting
these lines, with what he thought a necessary emendation,
changing the closing line to
" Come in and drink with Simon Webster." .
He was not aware of the violation of poetic rules. Our older
poets furnish us with another instance of the widespread fame
f 180 YOBKSHIBE FOLK-LORE.
of this redoubtable freeson, in the practice of swearing by him.
Thus in Borde's Certayne Merrie Tales of the Madde Menne of
Gottom, published in the reign of Henry Vlll., one of the
characters introduced exclaims, "By Robin Hood, but thou
shalt not." Shakspere, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, makes
one of the outlaws swear, " By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's
fat friar. Antiquary.
The Heckmondwike Herald gives the following note on Robin
Hood's Wind.
" I heard one of my neighbours the other day, in speaking
about the weather, say that Robin Hood was right when he
said that a thaw wind was the coldest of all winds. Now, if it
is not colder when the frost is on how could it thaw, and if it
is so warm that it thaws how can Robin Hood have been right?
T. J. 8. (Healey).
T. J. S. (Healey) no doubt thinks he has put a poser when
he asks how it can thaw if the cold is more intense than when
it freezes ? The reason why it is colder in a thaw than in a
frost is because when frozen water is thawed it absorbs heat
from the air, &c, to melt the ice ; in consequence of which the
heat of the air is greatly reduced. There is no doubt that if
Robin Hood made the observation he is credited with respecting
a thaw wind he was perfectly correct and doubtless gave the
result of his own experience. It would take up too much room
to explain what is meant by latent heat, but strange as it may
sound all bodies contain it, the coldest ice as well as the hottest
fire. Heat is always evolved when a fluid is converted into a
solid form, and on the contrary heat is always absorbed when a
solid is changed into a liquid state.
Chkmicus (Heckmondwike.)
Hebbebt Enowles. In reply to the Rev. J. L. Saywell, I
forward the following brief notice of Enowles. Through a
mistaken idea, on the part of Southey, it has gone forth to the
world, that this youthful poet was little better than a pauper,
and depended upon sympathisers for his maintenance at school,
which is altogether erroneous. He was born at Gomersal, near
Leeds, in 1798, and died in 1817. James Enowles, his father,
was a well-to-do woollen merchant, and well able to educate
his sons, one of whom, James, he articled to the Law, who
became an eminent Barrister and Q. 0., and died in 1868.
Herbert was intended by his father, to follow commercial
pursuits, and succeed him in the woollen business ; but he
wished to enter the Church, and trade was so distasteful to him
that on the subjeot being urged upon him, he left home and
YORKSHIEE FOLK-LORE. 181
enlisted in the artillery, upon which, his father perceiving that
he would never make a tradesman, bought him off, and sent
him to the Grammar School at Richmond, then under the
superintendence of Dr. Tate.
Very early in life, he commenced writing poetry, and sub-
mitted a poem to Southey as a specimen of a volume he pro-
posed publishing, who appears to have conjectured that he was
an orphan lacking the means of going to college, and that he
was hoping to make money by the publication of his volume,
to enable him to go thither. In reply, he earnestly dissuaded
him from doing so, although the "poem waB brimful of promise
and power," offering instead, to send him £10 and to get the
same sum each from Earl Spencer and Samuel Rogers. On
receiving the news of his good fortune, young Enowles wrote to
his protector a letter, remarkable for much more than the
gratitude which pervaded every line. He remembered that
Kirke White had gone to the university countenanced and
supported by patrons, and that to pay back the debt he owed
them he wrought day and night, until his delicate frame gave
way, and his life became the penalty of his devotion. Herbert
Snowies felt that he could not make the same desperate efforts,
and he deemed it his first duty to say so. He promised to do
what he could ; assured his friends that he would not be idle ;
and that, if he could not reflect upon them any extraordinary
credit, he would certainly do them no disgrace. He then wrote
" The Three Tabernacles," which has immortalised his name.
8onthey was the first to give it to the world, in an article in
the Quarterly Review, No. xxi., 897, saying — " The reader will
remember that they are the verses of a school-boy, who had not
long been taken from one of the lowest stations in life, and he
will then judge what might have been expected, from one who
was capable of writing with such strength and originality upon
the tritest of all subjects."
He left behind him a MS. vol. of poems, some of which were
published, posthumously in the " Literary Gazette." They
were much lauded by James Montgomery in the " Christian
Life," who said that he would have given a great deal to have
been the author of "The Three Tabernacles." His superior
genius engaged for him the patronage of many men, eminent
for rank, talent or learning, but the ardour of his mind de-
stroyed its earthly tenement, and he fell a victim to con-
sumption at the age of 19 years. He was buried in the
Chapel-yard of the Upper Chapel, Heckmondwike, under a
tombstone, inscribed — "Sacred to the memory of Herbert
Knowles, who departed this life February 17th, 1817/'
The Poem was dated — " Written in Richmond Church-yard,
Oct. 7th, 1816.
London. Fredk. Boss.
&£ YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
The Cleckheaton Guardian publishes the following particulars :
" Herbert Knowlea was the son of a Mr. James Knowles, a
merchant in London. James Knowles was the brother of Mr.
Lionel Knowles, sen., the father of the late Lionel and Hartley
Knowles, of Gomersal. This James Knowles, Herbert's father,
married a Miss Philips, sister of the Mrs. Philips who, some
fifty years ago, occupied the handsome residence, with garden
in front, situate in what is now known as the Old Market Place,
Cleckheaton, the same house being now tenanted by Mr. Navey
and Mr. Scott. Herbert's father and mother both dying when
their children were young, he with his two brothers and sister,
were taken charge of by their relatives. It may here be inter-
esting to state that Mr. Lister, a respectable solicitor who
practised in Cleckheaton some thirty-five years ago, married
Herberts sister, and from personal recollection we may state
that a more amiable lady never graced the town. She and her
husband, however, both died within a very few years of their
marriage, and their mortal remains rest in the old Bed Chapel
ourying-ground. The late James Knowles, Q.C., who for so
long a period was connected with the Northern Circuit, was
Herbert's brother, so it is clearly evident that the family was
gifted with rare talents. Of the third brother we unfortunately
know nothing. On the death of his parents, the subject of
these remarks— Herbert — was taken by his relatives at Gomer-
sal and sent to Mr. HorsfalTa school there, where he was a
boarder. There being no Independent chapel at Gomersal in
those days, Mr. Horsfall, his boarders, and many others from
that village regularly attended at the Red Chapel ; some, like
Mr. Horsfall's pupils, bringing their dinners along with them,
and partaking thereof in the vestry. During the interval be-
tween the services, we are told, it was no uncommon event for
Herbert, who was then religiously disposed, to deliver a short
address to those present, and the ability he displayed did not
go unobserved. It was previously stated that it was intended
that he should enter into a merchant's counting-house in Liver-
pool, but his talents becoming manifest, he was placed at the
Grammar School, Richmond, Yorkshire, where he evinced
EDwers of no ordinary kind. Through the kind assistance of
outhey, Rogers and Lord Spencer, he was enabled to pursue
his studies for a time, but too soon the hopes which he had
excited were extinguished by his severe illness and sudden
death, which took place at Gomersal, February 17th, 1817,
when he was only nineteen years of age.
YORKSHIRE #OLtf-LORE. &#
(Bib gorhsbtr* Ballais.
A Ballad on Mat: bt T. Pebrson, 1578.
The fragraunt flowers, moBt freshe to viewe,
In May most pleasaunt ys,
Doth yield to man their bewtifull hewe
That God hath framed sertis.
Then, man, consyder thine estate,
. Compared a flower to be ;
For come thou early, come thou late,
Be sure that thou shalt dye.
So pleasauntly doth florish Maye
In his appointed tyme ;
When June appears, then slydes away,
And wither'd ys in fynne ;
Lykewysse shall man, so freshe of hewe,
With valiant youthe decaye,
Consume to earthe this ys most trewe,
As flowers that faide in Maye.
And as the man greatly delight
To viewe thie collowres strange,
With fragraunt smelle both daye and night,
Which sodaynlye doth chaunge :
Even so shall mau, with bewties brave,
His pompe and coradge stute,
Shall ohaunge as flowers which wither'd stave,
Which of the earthe toke roote.
No flower so freshe or fragraunt smelle,
But yt haith lost his vewe,
No man so freshe, in youthe so well,
But he heith chaunged his hewe ;
Sence now thus man, compared yB,
Most lyke the flower that hye
Themselves into the earthe sertis,
Doth shewe that man shall dye.
Then let us counte our lyffe the flower,
And youthe as lustye Maye,
Which shall be chaunged in short houre,
As Scripture playn doth saye ;
And call on God, our heavenly King,
Our soules to mortifie,
That afther dethe He will us bringe
To His eternitie.
18* YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
A Ballad by Pireson:
Another Song, T. Pereson doing. (From the Cottonian MBS.)
Oman, refraine thie vile desyre,
Subdewe thie lust inordinate ;
Fere lesse thow kindlest a flamyng fyre
Of Gode's wrath, envy, or hate.
Thow knowest not what a poyson strange
Thow heapest upp within thie brest ;
When that thow dost a poore man wronge,
The Lord wyll revenge the poore request.
For lyke as the asse is lyons preye,
So ys the poore the riche man's meate ;
As in experiens everye daye
How that the riohe the poore doth eate.
And as the woalffe devoure the lambe,
Which of the fleshe and blode do feede,
So doth the riehe and covetous man
Oppresse the poore or causse do neede.
Bnt as the tre that bereth frute,
After the leaffe yet dothe decaye ;
So man shall leave his minde and vaine snte,
And turne in th' ende to clothe of claye.
But lett not covetousness the tome,
For to releve and helpe the poore ;
Feare lease in hell therein thow bourne,
And bide in torments evermore.
. Example of Dives we maye reede certaine,
As Scripture plainly dothe hus tell ;
For denyed of Lazarus his hunger to sustaine,
In perpetual torments in hell he doth dwell.
Therefore gyve unto the poore some parte
Of that which God hath given to the,
And with fre will and faithfull barte,
Gyve that thow maist, let no man se.
Then shalt thow be exalted hie,
In crowdes of heaven celestiall,
Where ever ys joye of melodye ;
God graunt to hus that plaice eternall.
ffinis.
These two ancient songs, I have copied from HalliwelTa
Yorkshire Anthology, and it is very desirable that something
should be known of the author. Surely some one of our mod-
ern antiquarians must be equal to the task. Sometimes the
name is spelt Pierson, but the most modern way is Pearson.
There was a family of Piersons lived at and near Stokesley in
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 18*
the time of Charles the 2nd, and they were Soman Catholics.
In the insurrection of 1715, they sided with the Jacobites, and
were fined. William Pierson valued his income at £154 2s. 4d.
per annum. Bradshaw Pierson, of Greys Inn, returned £889
lis. 6d. Francis Pierson, yeoman, of Mythorpe, £1 10s. These
may have been the descendants of our author, who was evi-
dently from the tone of the poems, or songs, also a Roman
Catholic. Piersons are found around Whitby, and also in
Halifax and Bradford districts. Roger Stores.
All-Fool's Day, (ante p. 44). "Ab oriente lux" is true of
a very great many things beside sunlight, and the origin of
many of our popular customs, as well as our myths and super-
stitions, is to be looked for in the east. Perhaps the * Asiatic
Researches' is the last book in the world that one would
naturally consult on the question of Mr. Saywell ; yet it is in
a dusty old copy of Vol. II. (English edition, London, 1799),
that I find the best reply. It ocours in a paper by Colonel
Pearse, (dated May 12, 1785), " On Two Hindu Festivals, and
the Indian Sphinx," at p. 884 of the volume referred to, and
runs as follows : —
"During the Hull, when mirth and festivity reign among
Hindus of every cla9s, one subject of diversion is to send people
on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment,
and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. The Huli
is always in March, and the last day is the greatest holiday.
All the Hindus who are on that day at Jagannat'h, are entitled
to certain distinctions, which they hold to be of such importance,
that I found it expedient to stay there till the end of the
festival; and I am of opinion, and so are the rest of the officers,
that I saved above five-hundred men by the delay. The origin
of the Huli seems lost in antiquities : and I have not been able
to pick up the smallest account of it.
"If the rites of May-day show* any affinity between the
religion of England in times past, and that of the Hindus in
these times, may not the custom of making April-fools on the
first of that month, indicate some traces of the Huli 1 I have
never yet heard any account of the origin of the English
custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept
up even in great towns, though less in them than in the
country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower classes of
people ; but in India, high and low join in it ; and the late
8hujdul Daulah,f I am told was very fond of making Huli-
fools, though he was a Musselman of the highest rank. They
# As suggested in an earlier part of the Colonel's letter.
t Better known to the ordinary reader as Snrajah Dowlah, the ghoul of
the 'Black Hole of Calcutta, and to Tommy Atkins as • Sir Roger Dowler.'
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carry it here so far, as to send letters making appointments, in
the names of persons who, it is known, must be absent from
their house at the time fixed on ; and the laugh is always in
proportion to the trouble given; B. T. L.
Parkin on November 6th. — What is the origin of this York-
shire mode of celebrating Gunpowder Plot Day ? R. T. L.
POMFRETTE ELECTION.
Listeneth, lordling in gode intent
And I will telle thee verament
Of myselven, eke of Pomfrette.
Nedes non again be tolden
That votes there are non boughten or solden,
Ne for riches, drink, nor mette.
For Pomfrette then I came forward
Owt of my grete regard
For a sette of such puritee.
Where ells could I find
One so much to my mind,
From being so very free.
Befelle it in London lately,
Lords and ladies of high degree
Didde a queen's oourt enliven.
There the nobles to delight,
As Chaucer I did wend y-dight
In garnements weel contriven.
A weig did streme adown my back,
Locks of horse-heren it did not lack ;
And I telle you in good certain,
Though Chaucer swete could sing
The fleurs and charms of spring,
Mine is a lovelier strain.
Nevere were pipe of soaring lark
Nor night-birds note in shades dark
Half so softe as mine.
My frame is feeble but perhaps,
Some of us little minor chaps
Sing songs the most divine.
Peel mette me and fell aback
At the sight of a weig so very black.
With a geegling laugh, he cried "Law Sir."
He deemed by the way,
I was merely a monstre,
Till I told him I was Chaucer.*
• Peel met Milnes in his curious wig and did'nt know him.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 187
* Then Peele shew'd me due regard
When he found out I was so great a bard,
And he heard me with muohe delight
My music raise
Myselven to praise,
As the wonders of that night
Nor should it be forgotten too
That I have offerred tribute due
To the Queen & her consorte gode ;
For I have U9ed my persuasion
To have my rhimes on the late occasion
Redde, if not understoode.
I sent them to the Morning Post,
Of all papers kenning the most
Of what occurs to Majesty ;
So I trust, I am sure
Of wellcome in future
When such fetes again there bee.
My merits from Peel cannot be hidd,
Though he has not yet made me a bidd ;
Nor mine aid by breebery sough ten,
Because like Pomfrette
That aunoient sette
I'm too virtuous to be bough ten.
R. M. M.
Thus spafce smalle Milnee alias Chancer.
One would like to know who wrote the above effusion ; surely
not R. M. M. of honoured memory ! A note as to when and
where the lines first appeared (if they have been printed
before), will oblige. R.
o
f§orkfibtr* JVntbalngp.
The following pieces have been selected from the Rev. J. L.
Saywell's MS. collection of original poems, most of which have
appeared from time to time in various Yorkshire prints. By
his contributions to Yorkshire literature, Mr. Saywell has
established a reputation which entitles him to a place amongst
Yorkshire writers, and we deplore his removal from our county
to St. Helen's.
The Old Fabm Waggon: ( A Rural Idyl.)
The old farm waggon ! what memories cluster round it,
Of the days gone by, when in the croft we found it ;
How the creak of its wheels filled my heart with delight,
As laden with faggots it labour'd home at night.
The old farm waggon ! full many a jaunty ride
To the hay-field have I had, down by the river side ;
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Or, on the splashboard mounted, with Bob's approving smile,
I handl'd reins and whip in true despotic style.
*****
To the old farm waggon I owe my first * ideer '
Of what the world was like beyond onr village sphere ;
For when a boy, with father I oft to market went,
And saw the sights and scenes, and there my half-pence spent.
And then when father died, I married Sal, and she
For thirty years rode by my side most happily.
The old farm waggon ! how my heart with honest pride
Expanded, when I saw the bairm to market ride,
The rosiest, bonniest youngsters, it cannot be denied,
That ever grac'd a cottage, or roam'd the country side.
* * * t *
But now my locks are snowy, the waggon's far from new,
The lads and lasses all are wed, and Sally's ailing too ;
I doubt her days are number'd by the Master up above,
But I'll bide His time in patience and in love.
Altho' no more to market, so feeble too I've grown,
There's one more journey I'll have to take alone —
To the quiet Kirkyard down by the river side,
Where the old farm waggon took father when he died ;
And there I'll wait for Sally, she wont be long, I know,
And then we'll rest together 'neath where the daisies grow.
1878.
The Two Beacons.
44 Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light onto my path."
From a rocky cliff by the ocean's side,
The light of a beacon shone o'er the tide,
Which ebb'd and fiow'd, and moan'd and sigh'd,
By the strength of the rock-bound coast defied.
For years it had stood a sentinel there,
Dispelling the gloom with its ruddy glare,
While storm-to88'd mariners lost in despair
Were cheer'd by its beam, as an answer to prayer.
Full many a vessel of stately mien
Destroy'd on those rocks, the keeper had seen,
(Oft raging in tempest ! — oft calm and serene 1 —
Then cloth' d by the sunset in golden sheen.)
Thue the beacon-light was the keeper's pride,
With it he'd liv'd, and, if needful, have died ;
'Twas there he was born, 'twas there he'd abide
'Till eas'd from his post by the ocean's side.
* * * * *
And oft when the waves by the winds were lash'd t
And the beacon's ray o'er the waste was flash'd,
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The old man sat lone by the lantern's mast,
And thought of the hope o'er his future cast.
For sixty years he'd plough'd life's ocean wave,
'Midst turbulent storms as dark as the grave,
And he sigh'd to think, how he'd tried to brave
Life's tempest himself, and his soul to save.
He remember'd the day when he sail'd away,
While earth's treaoh'rous smiles around him did play,
But the sky looming dark, he drifted astray,
And his vessel was wreck'd on the rocks of delay !
— Not totally lost, for a heavenly light
Ulumin'd his soul and gladden'd his sight ;
'Twas the beacon of hope that dispell'd the dark night,
And the " Lamp of God's Word " all his doubts put to
flight.
* * * ♦ *
The old man smil'd, as he turn'd o'er the page
Which in youth he had shunn'd, but now in old age
Was a lantern of peace, his doubts to assuage,
For to him it shone clear, tho' dark to the sage.
Now, round his sere forehead with snowy locks crown'd,
A halo oft sits, for the hope he has found ;
And the beacon celestial sheds its glory around,
'Till his soul rides at anchor on heavenly ground.
1878.
o
Whig and Toby. — With reference to the derivation of the
word 'Tory,' mentioned in Mr. Gardiner's paper on some
English Nursery Rhymes, p. 156 of Y. Folk-Lore, it may be
interesting to note that at the last General Election (1886), the
colliers in the neighbourhood of Handsworth Woodhouse, near
Sheffield, derisively termed their political opponents " Torrags,"
[toe rags] a term which in its pronunciation may come very
near the Irish toruigh. J. T. S.
The following extract is made from a MS. diary of the Rev.
Oliver Heywood, the distinguished Nonconformist divine : —
"I being at Wallingwells, Oct. 24, 1681, they were discuss-
ing about a new name lately come into fashion for Banters,
calling themselves by the name of Torys. Mrs. H., of Chester-
field, told me of a gentleman who was at their house, and had
a red ribband in his hat. She asked him what it meant. He
said it signified that he was a Tory. ' What's that ? ' said she.
He answered ' An Irish Rebel ! ' Oh, dreadful that any in Eng-
land dare espouse that interest. I hear further, since, that this
is the distinction they make instead of Cavalier and Roundhead.
Now they are called Torys and Wiggs, the former wearing a
Bed Ribband, the other a Violet. Thus men begin to commence
war. The former is an Irish title for outlawed persons, the
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latter a Scotch title for fanatics or dissenters, and the Tories
will hector down and abuse those they have named Wiggs in
London and elsewhere frequently. There is a book called "The
Character of a Tory," wherein it runs, * a Tory, a Boary, a
Scory, a Sory, Vidt."
Walling or W aiding Well is near Tickhill, on the borders of
Yorkshire and Notts, and where Heywood was a constant
visitor. Several volumes of " Hey wood's Diaries " are in exis-
tence, and were used by Hunter in his biography of Heywood.
The Nonconformist Register of Births, &c, usually called the
Northowram Register, kept by him at Northowram, in the
parish of Halifax, and where he chiefly ministered, has lately
been published by Mr. Horsfall Turner, of Idel, near Bradford,
and is most useful to those interested in the families professing
the old dissent. Heywood inserted in the Register, Memoranda
of Births, &c, of families in various places. These diaries
intact are intended to be published by Mr. Turner.
The extract above given is taken from a transcript in my
possession, made by the late Mr. Hunter."
Walton Hall. Edwabd Hailstone.
(From N. & Q., November, 1881.)
John A. Maciver, Edinburgh, writes — It is affirmed by certain
writers that the distinction between Whigs and Tories, as
political parties, was not known before 1678, in the reign of
Charles II. It is certain, however, that the terms were in use
about that date, for Dry den in his epilogue of the " Duke of
Guise," (1682), has the following:—
Damned neuters, in their middle way of steering.
Are neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring ;
Nor Whigs nor Tories they.
An anonymous author says, that the word " Whig " was given
to the Liberal party in England by the Royalists in Cromwell's
days, from the initials of their motto — •« We hope in God."
Mr. Borrow, author of the " Bible in Spain," suggests that
" Tory " may be traced to the Irish adherents of Charles I.,
during the Cromwellian era, when the words Tar-a-ry (pro-
nounced Tory), and meaning "Come, O King!" were so con-
stantly in the mouths of the Royalists as to become a by-word.
The origin of the terms has, however, been traced to various
other sources. " Liberals " and " Conservatives " are the
modern forms of " Whig " and " Tory." It is not clear how
the former name arose, but the latter, applied as a politioal
party name, came into use in January, 1880. In the Edinburek
Review of that date there occurs the following sentence : — " We
despise and abominate the details of partizan warfare, but we
now are, as we always have been, decidedly and conscientiously
attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with
more propriety be called the Conservative party." Broadly
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stated, the distinguishing features of the two parties are these :
The Conservative leans towards Church and State ; supports the
regal, ecclesiastical, and aristocratic institutions of the country,
and is jealous of the extension of popular power ; while the
Liberal advocates progressive reforms of abuses in the State, is
jea^us of the encroachments of the Crown and privileged
classes, and seeks to increase the power of the people.
Legends and Traditions of Wells, &c. — Springs and Wells
of water have, in all lands and in all ages, been greatly valued,
and in some regards with a feeling of veneration little, if at all,
short of worship. They have yielded their treasure to the
sustenance and refreshment of man and beast, as age after age
of the world's history has passed along, and have been centres
around which village story and gossip have gathered for gener-
ation after generation. Little wonder, therefore is it, that
legends and traditions abound concerning them. These are
often extremely local, and therefore little known. The names
alone, however, suggest much. The memory of the mythical
gods, satyrs, and nymphs of the ancient heathen times lingers
in a few, as in Thors-kil or Thors-Well in the parish of Burn-
sail, and in the almost universal declaration, by which not
overwise parents seek to deter children from playing in danger-
ous proximity to a Well — that at the bottom, under the water,
dwells a mysterious being, usually named Jenny Greenteeth
Blooidy Tongue, or Peg-o'-the-Well, who will certainly drag
into the water any child who approaches too near it.
The tokens of mediaeval reverence are abundant in the names
of the saints still clinging to them, to whom the Wells were
dedicated. " There is scarcely a Well of consequence in the
United Kingdom," says the editor of Lancashire Folk-lore,
" which has not been solemnly dedicated to some saint in the
Roman calendar." Thus in Yorkshire, we have Our Lady's
Well or Lady Well, St. Helen's Well (very numerous), St.
Margaret's Well at Burnsall, St. Bridget's Well near Bipon,
St. Mungo's Well at Copgrove, St. John's Well at Beverley,
8t. Alkelda's Well at Middleham, &c. Br. Whitaker remarks
that the Wells of Craven, which bear the names of saints, are
invariably presided over by females, as was the case with Wells
under the Pagan ritual, in which nymphs, exclusively, enjoyed
the same honour.
Bemnants of Well-worship existed in Craven about the mid-
dle of the last century, when it was the custom, on Sunday
evenings, for the young people to assemble and drink the waters
mingled with sugar. This custom was particularly observed
at St, Helen's Well at Eshton, and at Bouland Well, betwixt
Bilatoh and Hetton. " These harmless and pleasing observ-
ances, " says the doctor, are now lost, -and nothing better has
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YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
been introduced into their place. It* is perhaps as innocent at
such hours of relaxation to drink water, even from a consecrated
spring, as to swallow the poison of British distilleries at a
public-house. " To be continued.
YORKSHIRE CENTENARIANS.
John Phillips, gent.
The above portrait is an exact copy of the painting bj P.
Mercier, (J. Faber, fecit.), and bears the subscription : —
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 198
John Phillips, gent., aged 117, of Thorner, near Bramham
Park, in Yorkshire. Born in Cleveland, 1625. Dyed Jan. ye
4th, 1741-2. (See p. 186. See also p. 197 Y. N. & Q., where
Mr. Phillips' age is given at 100.)
The following are extracts from one of my books of News-
paper Cuttings, to which I should like to add queries. Is it
possible to discover the particular place in Yorkshire in which
Ann Ingram was born ? Also the birth place of Mrs. Hobson ?
C. H. Stephenson, Coventry Club, London.
A Leeds Centenabun. — At the meeting of the Leeds Board
of Guardians on Wednesday, a letter was read from the Clerk
to the Chorlton-upon-Medlook Union, which stated that Eliza-
beth Jennings, aged 108 years, was then living at Gorton, and
had applied for further relief to the Chorlton Union ; and the
pauper being chargeable to the Leeds Union, authority to grant
relief was asked for. She had been in receipt of 8s. per week
for some time, and 6d. was added to that amount, as the pauper
was beyond the age of 100 years. — North British Advertiser, Oct.
14th, 1876.
The Sheffield Telegraph records the death of Mrs. Hobson,
widow of the Be v. Leonard Jasper Hobson, incumbent of Mex-
bro\ Mrs. Hobson was born in February, 1778, and died on
the 22nd inst., having thus nearly completed her hundredth
year. She retained her faculties to the last, and leaves behind
her a great-grandchild, with numerous children and grand-
children.—The Standard, Oct. 25th, 1872.
Yesterday, Ann Ingram, of Earls Barton, Northampton,
attained her hundredth year. She was born on the 29th of
May, 1776, and has 102 descendants, five generations. She
was born in Yorkshire, and lived in the same house 70 years.
Her eldest girl, aged 72 years, died six years ago; and her
grand-daughter, 60 years old, is grandmother to 12 children.
" Old Ann " did six days' washing a week until she was 54. —
Manchester Evening Mail, May 80th, 1876.
Thomas Nicholson, a gentleman well known and highly re-
spected in the district, died at the village of Hawks we II, near
Richmond, on Monday, having reached the advanced age of
101 years. Deceased, who will be interred to-morrow, was
born in 1777. The annexed is a copy of the engravings on a
copper plate to be put on his tombstone :— " Here rest the
mortal remains of Thomas Nicholson, second son of the Bev.
Thomas Nicholson and Elizabeth Fairer, his wife ; many years
town clerk of the ancient borough of Hertford, afterwards a
commissioner for investigating claims to grants of land in Tas-
mania, and a barrister of the Supreme Court of that Colony.
Y.F-L. N
104 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Born at East Hawkswell, 12th March, 1777 ; departed this life
the 9th September, 1878"— Bedale and Northallerton Times and
Gazette, Sept. 14th, 1878.
Margaret 'Winn, a Quakeress of Millthrop, Sedbergh, died
November 5th, 1747, aged 100 years and 8 months.
The above Margaret (Thompson) married Christopher Winn,
Feb. 22nd, 1686. Christopher Winn died Feb., 1782.
The Burial Register of the Parish of Glaisdale near Whitby,
records the following: — December 29th, 1880, was buried in
Glaisdale Churchyard, Mary Wilson aged 100 years. She had
been an inmate of the Poor House then standing at Lealhohn
in this Parish. A. W. Hedges.
Legends and Traditions of Wells, &c. — Continued from p. 192.
Other Wells there are whose designations preserve the names
of owners or historical personages, in olden times, as Ketel's (a
Saxon nobleman) Well (Kettlewell), and the many Robin
Hood's Wells ; while the names of many others, as Beggar's-
gill-well, in Grass wood, near Kettlewell, the Drumming Well
at Harpham, the Tailor's Well at Beverley, &c, preserve some
topographical peculiarity, or local story of more or less interest
in local history, tradition, or folk-lore.
Wells Possessing Medicinal Virtues. — The Hkley Wells
have long been famous for their medicinal virtues, as well as
the well known sulphur springs of Harrogate ; both places have
sprung to fame as watering places and health resorts. In
the Magna Britannica, a work published in 1788, it is stated
that there are in Leeds the following Springs; St. Peter's
Spring, intensely cold, but beneficial to such as are troubled
with rheumatism, rickets, &c. ; Eyebright Well, near the Monk-
pits, celebrated as a cure for sore eyes ; a spring at the High
Dam, ' whose water, by the powder of galls, will turn into a
purple colour ' ; and the Spaw on Quarry-hill, which surpasses
all the rest, ' being a Pannacea,' and the Ducking Stool for the
cure of scolds, being near it. In all ironstone and coal districts
are Canker Wells, which are reputed to cure sore eyes.
Pin Wells and the Fairies. — In several counties are Pin
Welle, but we are not sure of any so named in Yorkshire. In
Westmoreland there is a famous Pin Well, into the waters of
which both rich and poor drop a pin when passing. The super-
stition in both cases, consists in a belief that the well is under
the charge of a fairy, and that it is best to propitiate the little
lady by a present of some sort, and a pin is often most conve-
nient. The crooked pin is explained in folk-lore, that crooked
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things are lucky things, as a crooked sixpence, which many
elderly ladies never allow themselves to be without, lest ill-luck
should befall them. There are many interesting superstitions
connected with springs and wells, and like most of superstitions,
there is a basis of truth in them when understood. There is a
spring about five miles from Alnwick, in Northumberland,
known as Senna Well, on account of its medicinal effects. At
Wavertree, near Liverpool, there is a well bearing the following
inscription : " Qui non dat quod habet, Daemon infra videt,
1414." Tradition says there was at one period a cross above
it, inscribed, " Deus dedit, homo bibit," and that all travellers
gave alms when drinking. If they did not do so, a devil who
was chained at the bottom laughed. The monks who lived near
got the contributions. See Notes and Queries, vol. 6, page 804.
The Ebbing and Flowing Well at Giggleswick. — About a
mile from Settle, on the road leading towards Glapham, and at
the foot of the high limestone cliff known as Giggleswick Scar,
is the famous Ebbing and Flowing Well. The water in this
well periodically ebbs and flows, at longer or shorter intervals,
according to the quantity running at the time. Sometimes the
phenomenon takes place several times in the course of an hour,
the water rising and sinking over a depth of several inches —
and sometimes only once in the course of a few hours. At one
time it was thought there was some subterranean connection
between the waters of this well and those of the ocean, and that
the ebbing and flowing of the tides led to the rise and fall of
the waters of the well. This is improbable and unsatisfactory,
and the true explanation is probably to be found in a system of
natural syphons in the limestone rock. The theory that such
is the case has been well worked out by a gentleman of the
locality, whose name the writer is sorry he does not remember.
Legend, however, has its own explanation, and this was admir-
ably given by quaint Michael Drayton, in his " Polyolbion,"
nearly 800 years ago (1578-1681).
" In all my spacious tract, let them, so wise, survey
My Kibble's rising banks, their worst, and let them say,
At Giggleswick, where I a fountain can you show,
That eight times a day is said to ebb and flow.
Who sometimes was a nymph, and in the mountains high
Of Graven, whose blue heads for caps, put on the sky,
Amongst th' Oreads there, and Sylvans made abode,
(It was ere human foot upon those hills had trod)
Of all the mountain kind, and, since she was most fair,
It was a Satyr's chance to see her silver hair
Flow loosely at her back, as up a cliffe she dame.
Her beauties noting well, her features, and her frame,
And after her he goes ; which when she did espy,
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Before him like the wind the nimble sylph doth fly,
They hurry down the rocks, o'er hill and dale they drive ;
To take her he doth strain, t'outstrip him she doth strive,
As one his kind that knew, and greatly feared his rape,
And to the topick gods by praying to escape.
They turned her to a spring, which as she then did pant,
When wearied with her course her breath grew wondrous
scant.
Even as the fearful nymph, then thick and short did blow,
Now made by them a spring, so doth she ebb and flow."
Richard Braithwaite ("Drunken Barnaby") writes thus of
Giggleswick and the well : —
" Thence to Giggleswick most steril,
Hemm'd with shelves and rocks of peril,
Near to the way, as the traveller goes,
A fine spring both ebbs and flows :
Neither know the learned that travel
What procures it, salt or gravel."
At page 206 "Yorkshire Bibliographer,' ' will be found a
picture of the well as it exists to-day, and at p. 169 a facsimile
of an old engraving depicting the district in which it is found.
On leaving the well, two streams are formed by the waters
and these fall into the bed of the dried- up Giggleswick Tarn.
Btainland Holywell, (p. 168, Y. N. Q.) and Alegar Well at
Kirklees, have been previously referred to in our pages. At
Helliwell Syke, near Coley Church, is another.
RADFORD.— Spink Well, and Helly
| Well (Holy Well), near Bradford, were
'long ago famous wells. It was near
Spink Well where the famous wild boar
is said to have been killed. Being near
Cliffe Wood, the name of the former
must, I suppose, have been derived from
the song birds so plentifully there former-
ly, such as the bull-spink, the gold-spink,
&c. The Holy Well, not far from Mann-
ingham-lane, probably derived its name
from having at some time been dedicated
to some saint. It is well known that our
forefathers were wont to dedicate wells to
their favourite saints, and to attribute to
the wells uncommon virtues. Mr. John
James says : — "I have observed that un-
common virtues were supposed to be in
the water, and the wells of this description which I have seen
are naturally of an extremely fine kind. The inhabitants of
Bradford were wont in ancient times to resort on Sundays to
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these wells as a common place of meeting, to drink of the
waters, and partake of their preternatural virtues. In the sur-
rounding locality there are several of these sainted, or holy
wells. The Lady's Well, in the * Boughs/ on the west side of
Dudley Hill, within late years, was in greut repute for its
waters." And near every old town and village in Yorkshire
such wells may be found.
St. Simon's Well. — On the banks of the Cover (this name is
pronounced as if spelt Cov-ver. It is derived from v, water,
with c prefixed, and signifies the shallow stream, in contradis-
tinction to the deep and rapid Yore) we find St. Simon's
Well, a spring formerly used as a path, but now choked up.
The country people assert that St. Simon the Apostle is buried
there ; an evident mistake. It is, however, possible that some
holy martyr of that name, forgotten, like St. Alkelda, of Mid-
dleham and Giggleswick, may have suffered during the Danish
persecution. The place is thus noticed in some verses descriptive
of Coverdale, written fifty years ago by a clever but eccentric
character, the Rev. James Law, curate of Goverham, a collater-
al descendant of the Ellenborough family : —
The ruins of St. Simon's are forgot,
That deep, sequester'd wood, o'ershadowed spot.
(Suppose in truth, what records old declare
The holy Canaanite was buried there ?)
Near Coverside, where from a rocky dell
The streams rush out and fill the ancient well.
* * * *
And still one day in honour of the saint
In feasting yearly, through the dale is spent.
On page 189 " Yorkshire Bibliographer," will be found an
accurate drawing of St. Hilda's Well, at Hinderwell, which
supplies the people of a large district with excellent water,
though situated at the foot of the grave yard.
St. John's Well at Harpham. — At Harpham-on-the-Wolds,
between Driffield and Bridlington, there is a noted well dedica-
ted to St. John of Beverley, who was really the patron saint of
all this part of Yorkshire. In medieval times many miracles
are said to have been wrought through the virtue of its waters,
blessed by the saint. It is a circular well or trough, with an
opening in the side, and covered by a dome, and situated on the
roadside by the churchyard. Among other virtues it possessed
that of taming wild animals, and subduing and calming the
fiercest brutes. William of Malmesbury relates that the most
rabid bull when brought before it became as gentle as a lamb.
If this supposed supernatural power be departed in these de-
generate times, the natural power of allaying the sufferings of
many a poor animal, maddened by thirst, may not be less
valuable or less effectual.
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The Drumming Well at Habpham. — At Harpham, in the East
Biding (the same village as is mentioned before in connection
with St. John's Well) there is in a field near the church another
well called the Drumming Well, to which appertains the fol-
lowing legend : —
About the time of the second or third Edward, when all the
young men of the country were required to be practised in the
use of the bow, and for that purpose public " butts" were found
connected with almost every village, and occasionally " field-
days" for the display of archery were held, attended by gentry
and peasant alike—the old manor house near this well at
Harpham was the residence of the family of St. Quintin. In
the village lived a widow, reputed to be somewhat " uncanny,"
named Molly Hewson. She had an only son, Tom Hewson,
who had been taken into the family at the manor; and the
Squire, struck with his soldierly qualities, had appointed him
trainer and drummer to the village band of archers.
A grand field day of these took place in the Well- field in front
of the manor house. A large company was assembled, and the
sports were held at their height, the squire and his lady looking
with the rest. But one young rustic proving more than usually
stupid in the use of his bow, the squire made a rush forward
to chastise him. Tom, the drummer, happening to be standing
in his way, and near the Well, St. Quintin accidentally ran
against him and sent him staggering backward, and tripping,
he fell head foremost down the Well. Some time elapsed
before he could be extricated, and when that was effected the
youth was dead. Soon his mother appeared upon the scene.
At first she was frantic, casting herself upon his body. Sud-
denly she rose up and stood, with upright mien, out-stretched
arm, and stern composure before the Squire. She remained
silent awhile, glaring upon him with dilated eyes, while the
awe-stricken bystanders gazed upon her as if she were some
supernatural being. At length she broke the silence, and,
in a sepulchral tone of voice, exclaimed — " Squire St. Quintin,
you were the friend of my boy, and would still have been his
friend but for this calamitous mishap. You intended not his
death, but from your hand his death has come. Enow, then,
that through all future ages, that when ever a St. Quintin,
Lord of Harpham, is about to pass from life, my poor boy shall
beat his drum at the bottom of that fatal Well. It is I — the
wise woman — the seer of the future — that say it."
The body was removed and buried ; and from that time, so
long as the old race of St. Quintin lasted, on the evening pre-
ceding the death of the head of the house, the rat-tat of Tom's
drum was heard in the Well by those who listened for it.
For this legend the writer is indebted to the J^eeds Mercury,
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Habt Leap Well. — This well is situated near the road which
leads from Richmond, in Swaledale, to the town of Askrigg, in
Weneleydale ; and is about five miles from the former town.
The Poet Wordsworth has immortalised this Well in his version
of the old legend : —
" There's neither dog nor heifer, horse nor sheep.
Will wet their lips within that oup of stone ;
And oftentimes, when all are fast asleep,
This water doth send forth a dolorous groan."
Lady Wells. — " Our Lady Wells," that is, wells dedicated
to the Virgin, are numerous in this country.
One at Threshfield, near Linton, in Craven, has the attribute
of being a place of safe refuge from all supernatural visitants,
hobgoblins, and the like.
Dr. Dixon (Stories of Craven Dales) relates the story of a
native on his way home, late at night from the public-house,
being a spectator of some performances of Pam, the Threshfield
Ghost, and his imps. Unfortunately the secret spectator
sneezed, and then, in homely phrase, " he had to run for it,"
and only escaped condign punishment at the hands of the
spirits by taking refuge in the very middle of " Our Lady's
Well," which they durst not approach. They, however, waited
at such a distance as was permitted them, and kept their victim,
nearly up to his neck, in the cold water, until the crowing of
the cock announced that the hour for their departure had
arrived, when they fled, but not without vowing how severely
they would punish him if he ever again was caught eavesdropp-
ing at their parties.
At Thirsk, again, is a Lady Well. An old historian of the
town says, " In the marsh near the church flows a spring of
pure and excellent water, commonly called Lady Well, doubt-
less a name of no modern description." He also gives the
following doggrel lines : —
Lady Well.
Inspired by Greece's hallowed spring,
Blandusia's fount let Horace sing ;
Whilst favour'd by no muse I tell
How much I love sweet Lady Well.
Amidst the willow shades obscure,
From age to age her stream runs pure ;
Yet has no seer aris'n to tell
The bliss that flows from Lady Well.
Save that in those dark distant days,
When superstition dimm'd truth's rays,
The monk promulgated from his cell
That virtue dwelt in Lady Well.
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St. Helen's Well. — There are more St. Helens than one,
but the one to whom the many Yorkshire wells are supposed to
be dedicated was Helen, or Helena, the mother of Constantino
the Great, who was by birth a Yorkshire lady, or rather a
British lady from the neighbourhood of Eboracum. The
waters of many of these wells bearing her name seem to have
been deemed a specific for sore and weak eyes. This was the
case with the one near Gargrave. Whitaker states that in his
time votive offerings, such as ribbons and other decorative
articles, were commonly to be seen tied to the bushes near
these wells. Roger Stores.
Well Wobship.
Folks came from the east and came from the west,
To take at that fountain health and rest ;
From the north and the south they came to dwell.
By the far-famed stream of the " Holy well."
Eliza Cook.
Perhaps no ancient superstition has had a more enduring
existence than " well- worship." This may have arisen to some
extent, from the fact that water, under certain conditions, pos-
sesses undoubted "medical virtues." The necessity of personal
cleanliness to ensure ordinary comfort, and the value of aqueous
agency in its achievement, would doubtless exercise some in-
fluence, even in remote times. Add to this the horrors of a
" water famine," the intense suffering resulting from prolonged
thirst, and we can well imagine that the early tribes of men
who worshipped fire would feel a corresponding reverence for
what may be termed its natural complement — water. The sun's
heat was powerless for good, nay, it was potent for evil, unless
in close alliance with the "gentle rain from heaven." From
their union springs the warm moisture essential to vegetable
growth. Water, too, in more modern times, has heen largely
employed as a symbol of purity ; and, in the Roman Catholic
Church, especially, has been consecrated to religious purposes,
and rendered " holy." It is, indeed, employed by all Christian
sects, in the rite of baptism, as symbolising purity. Hence it
is not surprising that many springs, and especially in the
neighbourhood of religious houses, should in the middle ages
have been invested with a sacred character, or that superstition
of a more ancient and a heathen origin should yet, as it were,
haunt their precincts. C. Hardwick.
Spectre Huntsman and Hounds.
" He the seven birds hath seen that never part,
Seen the seven whistlers on their mighty rounds,
And counted them ! And oftentimes will start,
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For overliead are sweeping Gabriels hounds,
Doomed with their impious lord, the flying hart
To chase for ever on aerial grounds."
Wordsworth.
"Amongst the most prominent of the demon superstitions
prevalent in Lancashire," says Mr. T. T. Wilkinson, "we may
first instance that of the Spectre Huntsman, which occupies so
conspicuous a place in the folk-lore of Germany and the north.
This superstition is still extant in the gorge of Cliviger, where
he is believed to hunt a milk white doe round the Eagle's Crag,
in the vale of Todmorden, on All Hallows Eve. His hounds
are said to fly yelping through the air on many other occasions,
and, under the local name of ' Qabriel Hatchets,' are supposed
to predict death or misfortune to all who hear the sounds."
This superstition is known about Leeds, and other places in
Yorkshire, as 4 Gabble Betchet,' and refers more especially to the
belief that the souls of unbaptised children are doomed to
wander in this stormy fashion about the homes of their parents.
These peculiar superstitions appear to have nearly died out,
or to have become merged into some other legends based on
the actions of the Aryan storm gods, Indra, Budra, and their
attendant Maruts or Winds, both in Great Britain and Ireland.
According to a writer in the Quarterly Review, of July, 1886,
the wild huntsman still lingers in Devonshire. He says, " the
spectre pack which hunts over Dartmoor is called the 'wish
hounds/ and the black * master ' who follows the chase is no
doubt the same who has left his mark on Wistman's Wood," a
neighbouring forest of dwarf oaks.
The late Mr. Holland, of Sheffield, referring to this supersti-
tion, in 1861, says, "I can never forget the impression made
upon my own mind when once arrested by the cry of these
Gabriel hounds as I passed the parish church of Sheffield, one
densely dark and very still night. The sound was exactly like
the greeting of a dozen beagles on the foot of a race, but not so
loud, and highly suggestive of ideas of the supernatural." Mr.
Holland has embodied the local feeling on this subject in the
following sonnet : —
Oft have I heard my honoured mother say,
How she has listened to the Gabriel hounds* —
Those strange unearthly and mysterious sounds,
Which on the ear through murkiest darkness fell ;
And how, entranced by superstitious spell,
The trembling villager not seldom heard,
In the quaint noise of the nocturnal bird
* In Oliver Heywood's Diaries will be found an account of Gabble Batches,
*nd Whistlers. A noisy child is sometimes called a Gabble-ratch, or is told
to' stop thi gabble!'
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Of death premonished, some sick neighbour's knell.
I, too, remember once at midnight dark,
How these sky-yelpers startled me and stirred
My fancy so, I could have then averred
A mimic pack of beagles low did bark.
Nor wondered I that rustic fear should trace
A spectral huntsman doomed to that long moonless chase.
In classic mythology this wild hunt myth is paralleled by the
career of Orion, the " mighty hunter, the cloud raging in wild
freedom over hills and dales.*' Seeking to make the beautiful
Aero his bride, he is blinded by her father, who caught him
asleep. After recovering his sight by a journey towards the
rising sun, he vainly endeavours to seize upon and punish his
enemy. In his wanderings he meets with and is beloved by
Artemis (Diana), one of the dawn godesses. The Rev. G. W.
Cox says, "It is but the story of the beautiful cloud left in
darkness when the sun goes down, bat recovering its brilliance
when he rises again in the east." After his death, being so
nearly akin to the powers of light, Asklepios " seeks to raise
him from the dead and thus brings on his own doom from the
thunderbolts of Zeus — a myth which points to the blotting out
of the sun from the sky by the thundercloud, just as he was re-
kindling the faded vapours which lie motionless on the horizon."
Orion's hound afterwards became the dog-star, Sirius. Hence
our name dog days for parching weather.
This chasing of the white doe or the white hart by the spectre
huntsman has assumed various forms. According to Aristotle
a white hart was killed by Agathocles, king of Sicily, which a
thousand years beforehand had been consecrated to Diana by
Diomedes. Alexander the Great is said by Pliny to have caught
a white stag, placed a collar of gold about its neck, and after-
wards set it free. Succeeding heroes have, in after days, been
announced as the capturers of this famous white hart. Julias
Caesar took the place of Alexander, and Charlemagne caught a
white hart at both Magdebourg, and in the Holstein woods. In
1172, William the Lion is reported to have accomplished a
similar feat, according to a Latin inscription on the walls of
Lubeck Cathedral. Tradition says the white hart has been
caught on Rothwell Haigh Common, in Yorkshire.
The spectre huntsman, so very popular in Scandinavian and
German tradition, is the Teutonic deity Odin or Woden, from
whence our Wednesday. Woden is claimed by the early Angle
and Saxon kings of the heptarchy as their common ancestor.
This god had many names, each descriptive of some special
quality or attribute. Amongst others he was styled Wunsch,
from which we have the Anglo-Saxon wisk, and the modern
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English wish,* in the sense in which it is used in the divining
or wish rod (German wiinschelruthe).
The appearance of Old Trash is considered a certain death-
sign, and has obtained the local names of ' Trash 'f or ' Skriker.'
He generally appears to one of the family from which death is
about to select his victim, and is more or less visible according
to the distance of the event. I have met with persons to whom
the barghaist has assumed the form of a white cow or a horse ;
bat on most occasions ' Trash ' is described as having the ap-
pearance of a large dog, with very broad feet, shaggy hair,
drooping ears, and ' eyes as large as saucers.' When walking,
his feet make a loud splashing noise, like old shoes in a miry
road, and hence the name of ' Trash.1 The appellation, 'Skri-
ker,' has reference to the screams uttered by the sprite, which
are frequently heard when the animal is invisible. When
followed by any individual, he begins to walk backwards, with
his eyes fixed full on his pursuer, and vanishes on the slightest
momentary inattention. Occasionally he plunges into a pool
of water, and at other times he sinks at the feet of the person
to whom he appears with a loud splashing noise, as if a heavy
stone was thrown into the miry road. Some are reported to
have attempted to strike him with any weapon they had at
hand, but there was no substance present to receive the blows,
although the Skriker kept his ground."
In the " Merry Devil of Edmonton " (1681) is the following
reference to this superstition : —
I know thee well ; I heare the watchfull dogs,
With hollow howling, tell of thy approach ;
The lights burn dim, affrighted with thy presence ;
And this distempered and tempestuous night
Tells me the ayre is troubled with some devill.
The superstition that the howling of a dog, especially in the
night time, portends the death of some person in the immediate
neighbourhood, is yet, at the present day, firmly believed in,
even by the middle, and by no means uneducated, classes in
Lancashire and Yorkshire. I listened, not very long ago, to
the serious recital of a story by one who heard the howling and
knew well the party whose death immediately followed. He
himself, being sick at the time, deemed his own end approach-
ing, but was relieved of his terror on being informed that a
well-known neighbour had just expired.
It is a common superstition yet that the ghosts of persons,
murdered or otherwise, not buried in consecrated ground,
cannot rest, but must wander about in search of the means of
Christian sepulture. This superstition obtained amongst the
* Wight, in Yorkshire, is an order for quietness.
t Guy trash in West Yorkshire. Boys have a game — Old trash.
204 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Greeks and Latins. The ghosts of unburied bodies, not pos-
sessing the obolm or fee due to Charon, the ferryman of the
Styx or Acheron, were unable to obtain a lodging or place of
rest. They were, therefore, compelled to wander about the
banks of the river for a hundred years, when the Portitor or
" ferryman of hell " passed them over, in forma pauperis. Hence
the sacred nature of the duty of surviving relatives and Mends
under the most trying circumstances. The celebrated tragedy
of Antigone, by Sophocles, owes its chief interest and pathos to
the popular faith on this subject.
Brand on the authority of Aubrey, states that, amongst the
vulgar in Yorkshire, it was believed, "and, perhaps, is in part
still," that, after a person's death, the soul went over Whinney
Moor ; and till about 1624, at the funeral, a woman came (like
a Prffifica) and sung the following song : —
This ean night, this ean night,
Every night and awle,
Fire and fleet (water) and candle-light,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
When thou from hence doest pass away,
Every night and awle,
To Whinny- Moor [silly poor] thou comest at last,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
If ever thou gave hosen or shoon [shoes] ,
Every night and awle,
Sit thee down and put them on,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
But if hosen and shoon thou never gave naen,
Every night and awle,
The whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
From Whinny- Moor that thou mayst pass,
Every night and awle,
To Brig of Dread thou comest at last,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
From Brig of Dread, na brader than a thread,
Every night and awle,
To purgatory fire thou com'st at last,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
If ever thou give either milke or drink,
Every night and awle,
The fire shall never make thee shrink,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
But if milk nor drink thou never gave naen,
Every night and awle,
The fire shall burn thee to the bare beane,
And Christ receive thy sawle.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
In the "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," this song is
printed with one or two slight variations, with the title of a
"Lyke-Wake Dirge." Sir Walter Scott likewise quotes a pas-
sage from a MS. in the Cotton Library, descriptive of Cleveland
in the northern part of Yorkshire, in Elizabeth's reign, which
aptly illustrates this custom. It is as follows : —
" When any dieth certaine women sing a song to the dead
bodie, reciting the journey that the partye deceased must goe,
and they are of beliefe (such is their fondnesse) that once in
their lives it is good to give a pair of new shoes to a poor man,
for as much as after this life they are to pass barefoote through
a great launde, full of thorns and furzen, except by the meryte
of the almes aforesaid they have redemed the forfeyte ; for at
the edge of the launde an olde man shall meet them with the
same shoes that were given by the partie when he was lyving,
and after he had shodde them, dismissed them to go through
thick and thin without scratch or scalle."
According to Mannhardt and Grimm a pair of shoes was
deposited in the grave, in Scandinavia and Germany, for this
very purpose. In the Henneberg district, on this account, the
name todtemchuk, or " dead shoe," is applied to a funeral. In
Scandinavia the shoe is named hehkoy or "hel-shoe," [grave-shoe].
It is customary yet in some parts of the North of England to
place a plate filled with salt on the stomach of a corpse soon
after death. Lighted candles too, are sometimes placed on or
about the body. Reginald Scot says, in his " Discourse con-
cerning Devils and Spirits," on the authority of Bodin, that
"the devil loveth no salt in his meat, for that is a sign of
eternity, and used by God's commandment in all sacrifices."
Douce, speaking of this practice, particularly in Leicestershire,
says it is done with the view of preventing air from getting into
the bowels and swelling the body. Herrick, in his " Hespe-
rides," says : —
The Soul is the Sault.
The body's salt the soul is, which, when gone,
The flesh soon sucks in putrifaction.
According to the learned Moresin the devil abhorreth salt, it
being the emblem of eternity and immortality. It is not liable
to corruption itself, and it preserves other substances from
decay. Hence its superstitious or emblematical import.
The screaming of certain birds, as we have already seen,
foreboded disaster. In some districts the midnight flight of
flocks of migratory seafowl are believed to be the cause of the
noises in the atmosphere, which the peasant's imagination
translates into the rush of the furious host. Mr. Yarrell, in
"Notes and Queries," says that flocks of bean-geese, from
Scandinavia and Scotland, when flying over various parts of
England, select very dark nights for their migrations, and that
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their flight is accompanied by a very loud and peculiar cry.
The " seven whistlers," referred to by Wordsworth, and others
already quoted, in some instances appear to be curlews, whom
screams are believed by fishermen to announce the approach
of a tempest.
The bellowing of cows at unseasonable hours was likewise
regarded as an announcement of death, as well as the howling
of the dog. Cows in the Aryan mythology represented the rain
clouds. Odin and his host, nevertheless, seem to have fancied
the earthly article. They were said to carry cows away, milk
them dry, and, in about three days, generally return them, bat
not always. It was idle for the farmer to refuse complying, as
when the furious host appeared, the fattest animals in the stalls
became restive, and on being let loose suddenly disappeared.
The Lancashire peasant, in some districts, still believes the
" Milky Way " to be the path by which departed souls enter
Heaven. Mr. Benjamin Brierley, in one of his Lancashire
stories, places in the mouth of one of his strongly marked pro-
vincial characters, the following expression, — " When tha goes
up 'th cow lone (lane) to th' better place," and he assures me
that he has often heard the expression from the lips of the
peasantry. The Germans entertain a similar belief in the
" Milky Way " being the spirit path to heaven. In Friesland
its name is kaupat, or cowpath. The giving of a cow to the
poor, while on earth, was considered to confer upon the donor
the power to pass with certainty the fearful Gjallar bridge; for,
as in the Vedic superstition, a cow, (or cloud,) would be present
to aid his soul to make the passage in safety. Mannhardt in-
forms us* that "hence it was of yore a funeral custom in
Sweden, Denmark, England, Upper and Lower Germany, that
a cow should follow the coffin to the churchyard. This custom
was partially continued until recent times, being accounted for
on the ground that the cow was a gift to the clergy for saying
masses for the dead man's soul or preaching his funeral
sermon .'
It is not improbable that the "mortuary" or "heriot" of the
olden time, which rendered the gift of a cow to the church, on
the death of a parishioner, as a oondonement of possibly unpaid
dues, a necessary condition of clerical favour, was based on
some such superstition. It was customary, in some places, to
drive the cow in the procession of the funeral cortege to the place
of sepulture. Mr. E. Baines, speaking of the manor of Ashton-
under-Lyne, says : — " The obnoxious feudal heriot, consisting
of the best beast on the farm, required to be given to the lord,
on the death of the farmer, was a cruel and unmanly exaction,
in illustration of which there are many traditionary stories in
the manor of Ashton, and no doubt in other manors. The
priest, as well as the lord of the manor, claimed his heriot,
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called a mortuary in these early times, on the death of his
parishioners, as a kind of expiation for the personal tithes,
which the deceased in his lifetime had neglected to pay."
" Traditions m by C. Hardwick.
Jkbbt Waumsley, — Hal of Bradford. — When the Bawsons,
who were Lords of the Manor of Bradford, dwelt in the old
"Bawson Hall," Kirkgate, Bradford, one ef them kept a "Hal"
named Jerry Waumsley. I heard when a boy, which is now
sixty years since, three stories about this Jerry, two of which I
will relate, but the third must remain untold.
One of these Bawsons, and the one who kept Jerry, was on
intimate terms of friendship with Mr.* Army t age of Kirklees,
and one day when on a visit to Mr. Bawson, he brought Pierson
the Kirklees Hal with him. As Mr. Armytage was going to
stay all night, it was arranged that Pierson should sleep with
Jerry in his attic room at the top of the hall. After the two
"Hals" had retired to rest, the company remaining up, a dread-
ful noise was heard in the upper part of the house, and on Mr.
Bawson and Mr. Armytage going up to Jerry's room, they
found the two fighting on the floor, and engaged in what ap-
peared to be a deadly conflict. After the combatants had been
separated, Mr. Bawson asked Jerry what the row was about.
Jerry replied, "Well, he wants to sleep in the middle, and I
think I have the best right to sleep in the middle, because it is
my bed, and we could not agree about it, and we were going to
fight it out." "Oh," said Mr. Bawson, "Til soon settle the
matter." He then sent one of the servants to fetch the big ling
yard broom, and putting it in the middle of the bed, he bid
them get in, one on each side ; and so the dispute was ended,
and a peace concluded.
N.B. In our British House of Commons, there are two parties
and they often have rows similar to the above ; because they
both want to rest in the middle.
The other story about Jerry was this. In the garden of the
Manor House, in Kirkgate, there was in the last century a very
fine apricot tree, but one year there was only one specimen of
fruit upon it, and Mr. Bawson was very desirous that it should
be allowed to ripen if possible. But one morning the apricot
was missing, and every one denied having seen it, Jerry amongst
the number. Mr. Bawson suspected Jerry of having stolen it,
but knowing his man, he said no more at the time. But a day
or two afterwards, he said to Jerry, " Now Jerry, we shall be
sure to find out who stole the apricot, when we find the stone."
Jerry replied, " Nay, you never will, for I swallowed it ! "
Bogeb Stores.
* ? Baronet.
208 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Jonathan Pybah, the Prophet of Lowmoor. — It was some
time during the year 1878 that I had the pleasure of an intro-
duction to the late Mr. Charles Bice, the successful lessee of
the Theatre Boyal, Bradford, with whom I spent, at his invita-
tion, two evenings, for the purpose of hearing him tell his
reminiscences of the early drama in Bradford, when the good
people of the town regarded the "play-house" as no fit place
for decent folks to he seen at, and when Puritanical prejudice
against the theatre was bo strong that church and chapel going
people spoke of it as the "devil's church," and of actors as men
and women to be shunned and avoided as if they had the leprosy.
Very enjoyable to me were these evenings with Mr. Bice, not
only because he was himself a racy story teller, but chiefly be-
cause the narrative of his early struggles as an actor, and the
whole story of his career, were of the profoundest interest. To
revive his recollection of the early days of the stage in Bradford,
with which he had much to do, I took with me a number of old
play bill 8 relating to the period coming within his own know-
ledge, the perusal of which not only freshened his memory but
also gave him considerable pleasure. One of these especially
interested him, because it announced the performance of a play
which he had written himself under somewhat peculiar circum-
stances. The piece to which he referred was entitled The Fin
Raiser, or the Proplut of Low Moor. I was curiously interested
in a play bearing this title, as I took it for granted that the
"Prophet of Low Moor" was no other than the notorious
Jonathan Pyrah, who in his day was certainly a prophet of the
first water. But as many of your readers may never have heard
of this strange mortal, I may briefly state that Jonathan, while
serving as a private soldier abroad, had foretold, among certain
other great events of history, the downfall of the houses of
Bourbon and Austria. Returning to England (in 1745) he
spent the latter years of his life at his native place — Low Moor.
His wonderful prophecies gained him great popularity, but,
poor fellow he could not do with it. His brain turned and
eventually he became stark mad. His fate was truly a sad one.
Confined in a little hovel, to which he was chained like a dog,
adjoining the old workhouse at Holroyd Hill, Wibsey, the
wretch eked out the remainder of his miserable existence. In
one of his lucid intervals that sometimes came over him, it is
said that while standing at Hill Top, he put his fingers before
his face and exclaimed, "I see something like hell in Black
Syke." This was his last vision or prophesy and this was its
fulfilment. Twenty years after its utterance the mighty fur-
naces of Low Moor were in full blaze upon the plain of Black
Syke, a place which in the days of the prophet, was nothing
more than an open piece of marshy ground. Such, briefly told,
is the strange history of Jonathan Pyrah. Believing this to be
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
209
the story upon which Mr. Rice had founded his play, The Fire
Raiser, or the Propliet of Low Moor, I asked him whence he had
got his information, and if he were in possession of any other
facta relating to Jonathan other than those I have stated above.
Conceive my surprise when he told me he had never heard the
story before. He had written his play many years ago when
in the South of England, and its first production was in a barn
before an audience of country " chaw bacons " down there. The
piece, however, took so well, that he subsequently played it at
nearly every place he visited. In order to give it the charms
of immediate locality, however, he always took care to alter the
title of his play, and fix the home of the fire-raising prophet at
some well-known place near to where he happened to be per-
forming. Thus, when he came to Bradford, he fixed upon Low
Moor as the locaU of the prophet, little thinking at the time
that that place had actually had a '* Fire -Raising Prophet " of
its own. It was indeed a singular coincidence, although there
was nothing whatever in common between the Low Moor pro-
phet and the one that Mr. Rice had shaped out of his own
imagination. The story I gave him of the former at any rate
served to explain, what to him was a surprise at the time of the
performance of the piece at Bradford, namely, the appearance at
his theatre of a very large number of people who came all the
way from Low Moor to hear it. w ^^ ^^ BowUng
•^ ^ ■- £ W N a number of "Chambers's
W jM • 1 Edinburgh Journal" for 1848,
^^f^ ^Bf _*,< I I find the following : — "So lately
jg^ as the month of September
(1848) a clothier residing at
' Holmfirth, near Huddersfield,
became the dupe of a female
vWVvj ft} gipsy> under the following cir-
^^mI cumstances : — Having first per
_Ml^ suaded him that there was a
large treasure concealed in his
JB house, she induced him to raise
the sum of £810, wherewith ehe
was to perform a charm by which
to overcome the influence of
certain evil spirits, which she
described as guarding the de-
sired hoard. When he had
gathered the money, one half of
which was in gold, she repaired
to the house to work the charm, for it had been understood
that the money was never to go out of his possession. A leather
y.p-l. o
210
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
bag was- procured, the money was deposited in it ; and after
some ceremonies had been performed, it was placed under lock
and key in one of the clothier's drawers, with strict injunctions
that it was not to be disturbed for four days, by which time the
charm would be worked, and the treasure found. The four days
elapsed, the gipsy failed of her appointment, and the dupe be-
gan to have some misgivings. After allowing one extra day to
elapse, he opened the drawer, where, instead of any new
treasures, he found only the bag, now containing only a few
pieces of lead and brown paper."
Can anyone tell me what was the end of this incident, and
whether the gipsy was caught and the money restored, <fcc. ?
H. Snowden Ward.
Prophet Wroe. — I am much interested
in John Wroe's very pecu
should especially like to 1
of the books published by him, or m con
nection with his views ami sect. He first
and the trustees of the Society afterwards
had a private press
from which most* of
these curious publica-
tions originated. The
press migrated under
force of circumstances
to different places —
Bradford, Wakefield,
Oravesend, and lastly
Ash ton - under - Lyne.
This list would make a
small contribution to
Yorkshire Bibliography
if it can be drawn up.
Oany ou help methrough
your numerous corres-
pondents ?
W. B.
East Hyde Vicarage,
New Year's Day Marriages. — In the interesting series of
extracts from the Diary of Rev. J. Ismay, given in the last
number of « Yorkshire N. & Q.,* I am struck with the entry (p.
197) : — " 1748. Dec. 11th.— (ye shortest day) 14 persons were
published in Mirfield Church, and 24 couples in ye year."
What is the reason for nearly one-third of the whole number of
marriages being arranged for the same day ? R. T. L.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 211
The Story op Lake Semebwateb.
In ancient times as story tells,
The saints would often leave their cells,
And stroll about, but hide their quality,
To try good people's hospitality.
It happen'd on a summer's day,
As Authors of the legend say,
A tired hermit — a saint by trade,
Taking his tour in masquerade
Disguis'd in tatter'd habits, hied
To an ancient town on Baydalside ;
Where in the strollers canting strain,
He begg'd from door to door in vain,
Tried every tone might pity win,
But not a soul would let him in.
Our wandering saint in woeful state,
Treated at this ungodly rate,
Having through all the city pass'd
To a small cottage came at last,
Where dwelt a good old honest pair
Who tho' they had but homely fare
They kindly did* this saint invite
To their poor hut to pass the night ;
And then the hospitable sire
Bid his good dame to mend the fire
While he from out the chimney took
A flitch of bacon from the hook
And freely from the fattest side
Cut out large slices to be fried ;
Then stepp'd aside to fetch him drink,
Fill'd a large jug up to the brink,
And saw it fairly twice drain'd off,
Yet (what was wonderful — don't scoff)
T'was still replenish'd to the top
As if he ne'er had touch'd a drop.
The good old couple were amaz'd
And often on each other gaz'd
Then softly turn'd aside to view
Whether the lights were turning blue.
The gentle pilgrim was soon aware
And told his mission in coming there :
" Good folk 8, you need not be afraid,
I'm but a saint," the hermit said ;
" No hurt shall come to you or yours ;
But for this pack of churlish boors,
Not fit to live on Christian ground
They and their cattle shall be drown'd
While you shall prosper in the land."
212 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
At this the saint stretch*d forth his hand —
" Save this little house ! Semerwater sink I
Where they gave me meat and drink."
The waters rose, the earth sunk down,
The seething floods submerged the town,
The gen'rous couple there did thrive
And near the lake aye long did live,
Until at good old age they died,
And slept in peace by Semerside.
J. R., Hawes.
Burial Customs. — The closing of the eyes after death, which
was generally done by the nearest relation, is of vast antiquity.
Homer thus refers to it : —
Unhappy youth who hadst not, at thy dying,
Father or mother to close thy eyes.
Washing the dead is of equal antiquity. Plato makes So-
crates say: — "I think it is better to wash before I drink my
foison to save the good women the labour of washing me after
am dead."
The custom of carrying the dead on the shoulders was prac-
tised by the Jews and continued by the Christians. There were
professional carriers who were a privileged corporation, but
friends often performed the office. Paula, a very eminent and
pious Roman lady who founded a monastery, was carried on
the shoulders of six bishops.
I have not asertained when the hearse came into use ; the
Jews had no such carriage, but it is mentioned by a Jewish
writer in 1820. It was in use in England in Shakespeare's
time.
Coffins were of wood, stone, or lead. In this country it is
generally stated that the first recorded wooden coffin was that
of King Arthur, who suppressed paganism and established
Christianity at York. According to Camden, he was buried at
Glastonbury in 542, and his tomb, with an inscription upon it,
was found and examined in 1189. The Romans, as is well
known, buried in stone, lead, and wooden coffins. In 1702 a
Roman wooden coffin was found at York made from oaken
planks two inches thick. There was also an inner coffin of
lead, Thoresby, who was at York at the time, got some of the
nails of the wooden coffin, and some of the bones which were
entire, though, as he remarks, probably 1600 years old. It was
formerly considered a distinction to be buried in a coffin, and
the practise of burying without a coffin was continued in Eng-
land down to late times. A parish bier is, or was not long
since, preserved at Sprotborough Church, in Yorkshire. The
latest burials on biers were those of paupers, but when such
burials were discontinued I have not ascertained. I have heard
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 218
of a method of lowering persons into the grave in a coffin and
then, after the service, drawing it up again, leaving the bottom
only in the grave. The latest records of burial in stone coffins
that I have seen are those of Thomas Fen ton, Esq., of Rothwell
Haigh, near Leeds, who was buried in 1818, in a large stone
sarcophagus from his own quarry, and of Mr. Pilkington (alias
Jack Hawley), to be afterwards described.
Torches were anciently carried by deacons or other church
officers at the funerals of persons of quality, but this seems to
have long since fallen into disuse. Perpetual lights, however,
in the Catholic churches were continued.
Pennant states that it was a custom in his time in Scotland
to set a platter of salt upon the breast of the dead body.
The ringing of the passing bell is a custom said to date back
to the seventh century, the time when bells were first hung in
churches. This practice has prevailed to the present day un-
altered except in the fact that the bell should be rung immediately
before, and not long after the death of the person who is
"passing** away. The passing bell seems to have been rung
to incite friends to offer prayers for the dying.
Anciently it was a common custom to surround the body of
a dead person with rosemary and other scented herbs, but this
might have been intended as a safeguard against infection, as
it is mentioned somewhere by Dickens that rosemary was taken
into the assize courts in 1790 as a disinfectant, when dirty
prisoners were brought before the judge. The use of flowers
and sweet herbs at funerals is of great antiquity. The early
Christians at first ignored the practices of the pagans in this
respect, but afterwards adopted them. Virgil, as translated,
has the following : —
Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring,
Mixed with the purple roses of the spring ;
Let me with fun'ral flowers his body strow,
This gift which parents to their children owe,
This unavailing gift at least I may bestow !
The custom of sending or taking garlands to be placed upon
the coffin of a deceased relative or friend is very beautiful, but
of late years it has developed almost into an abuse. The prac-
tice, once common, of suspending garlands of cut flowers, ever
greens, or artificial flowers over the pew of a deceased person in
the church seems to have gone out, but might with propriety
be revived. A tribute of this kind would be equally as graceful
as strewing flowers upon the coffin, and more lasting as a me-
mento to keep the merits of the deceased in remembrance.
Entertainments and feasts have often been prominent features
in burial customs; they are of Egyptian origin. Moderate pro-
vision for friends and others who may attend funerals from a
distance is necessary and legitimate, but in many cases the
214 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
feasting and attendant extravagance leads to abuse. An old writer
states that in former times it cost less to " portion a daughter
than to bury a wife." Butler, a tavern keeper in London, (aptly
named), once said that a tun of red port, besides white wine,
was drunk at his wife's funeral. As none but women go to
women's funerals, it happens that there would be none but
women to drink Butler's wine..
Lately I saw by a newspaper paragraph that there is a custom
prevalent in some of the remote Yorkshire dales which is a set-
off against extravagance ; it is called " taking shots." The
nearest relation bits in the chamber beside the open coffin and
receives a donation from each friend or neighbour as he comes
to take a last look at the dead, and this money is handed over
to the widow or other relatives. The ancient shot or scot was
a sort of mortuary often ordered by will to be paid on behalf of
the deceased on account of certain tithes or oblations which
during life might have been neglected. The taking of shots or
scots is the reverse of the original meaning of the Saxon word
sooten. What are called " gathered funerals" are still common
in villages round Leeds. A plate is set upon a table so that
any one may give what he chooses towards the expenses of the
funeral. A whole volume might be collected about funeral
feasts, doles, curious entertainments, and bequests.
6. Roberts.
I'll stand a drop at York. — I'll be hanged. — Early in the
year 1881 a man in the service of a Shipley stuff-manufacturer
being charged by his master with having refused, at a warehouse
in Bradford, to carry up stairs some goods which he had been
instructed to deliver there, stoutly denied doing so, and said
" I'll stand a drop at York, if I ever did any such thing." I
presume Leeds now takes the place of York in this expression.
Salt aire. Thos. Wm. Skevington.
Girls' Games.— I saw to day three little girls, aged 8, 5 and
7, play a new game, or, at least, a new one to me. First, all
the girls take hold of the apron of one, who says : —
" Oranges, oranges, four a penny
How do you think she gives so many ?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
All good children go to heaven,"
pointing to each child, including herself, and the one the last
word comes to stands aside ; and so on until one only is left.
That one, in this game as in many others, as "Hide and Seek,"
has to conduct the game.
In this game the conductor is the mother, and the assembled
children commence a dialogue :
Ch. " Please, mother, may I go out to play ?"
M. " No, my loves, it is a very wet day."
Y0RK8HIBE FOLK-LORE. 215
Ch. •• My grandma says it's a very nice day."
M. " Then get your hats, and go and play."
When the children run away they shout " It's raining, it's
raining."
M. " Come in."
Ch. " I sha'n't."
M. " I'll fetch you with my finger/'
Ch. «• I'd rather linger."
M. " I'll fetch you with my thumb."
Ch. " I'd rather come."
(They approach her.)
.1'. V "Where have you been ?"
Ch. " Down the lane."
.V. " What have you seen ? "
Ch. •« A little white house."
M. " What was there in it ? "
<7». " A little black man."
M. "What did he say?"
Ch. " Catch me, catch me, if you can."
The mother catches anyone of the runaways and the captive
takes the place of mother, and the game goes round again.
A. H. T.
Anecdote. — The Rev. Timothy Priestley, of Fieldhead, Bir-
stall, brother of the celebrated Dr. Priestley, was a very eccentric
individual. He was minister of a dissenting chapel in Cannon
Street, Manchester, from the pulpit of which he made some odd
deliverances which have been attributed to other people. Ob-
serving one of his congregation asleep he stopped in his discourse
and called "Awake! I say, George Earn say, or I'll mention
your name." He had an unconquerable aversion to candles
which exhibted long burned wicks, and often in the midst of
his most interesting sermons on winter evenings would shout
to the chapel keeper " Tommy ! Tommy ! top those candles."
He was the preacher, though others have borne the credit or
odium, who pulled out of his pocket half a-crown and laid it
down on the pulpit cushion offering to bet St. Paul that the
passage where he says " he could do all things" was not true,
but reading on "by faith," put up his money saying "Nay, nay,
Paul, if that's the case I'll not bet with thee."
Mischief Neet. — The last night in April is devoted, as far
as the peregrinations of the West Biding Constabulary will
allow, to a queer custom. Perhaps in another year or two that
devotion will be a thing of the past, and before it is totally for-
gotten, and while there yet live many to correct me if I am
wrong, I will endeavour to describe what it is. There is an old
saying that the first of April is the "fools' " day, and that the
last day of that month is the " devil's." It is yet, and perhaps
216 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
always will be, kept in remembrance, this silly custom of the
first day ; and generations after our time men and boys will be
told on that day that their " shoe band's* loose," or women and
girls that their " garter " is coming down, and thus be made
into April fools; bat we cannot think that the "devil's" day
will always be his iu the manner it is at present. Mischief
night is a night supposed by the imps of mischief (rough youths)
to be, under some old law or tradition, theirs, to do as they
wish with. Their duty and pleasure combined is to go round
in small gangs bent upon doing all the mischief they can, un-
observed by anyone in authority, or the owners they assail.
Bain water tubs are let off, "swillin " tubs are upset, doors are
taken from their " jimmers,1' and carried into some one's out-
house or into the waters of some mill dam. Donkeys are led
into some field at a distance, and the pinder informed slily of
the asinine trespass, or they are taken and tied to the outside of
some queer-tempered man's " door sneck." Then, again, some
old maid's door will be slily fastened by tying tightly across the
door jambs, in front of and to the " sneck," a piece of wood to
prevent her coming out of doors till released by a kind neighbour
next morning. Another phase of " mischieving " is made in
this wise : — A thin and narrow piece of steel is attached to a
piece of band, say a yard or two in length, and while one youth
holds tbis under the outside of the window and lets it fall upon
the doors tones, a companion will throw some peas against the
panes, and off both will scamper to some dark place to watch
the owner come out and search for the pane he is sure was
broken. Various other methods of torment are and used to be
carried out upon this night, and pure damage in some places
by some gangs gave place to defacement by others. The writer
has often seen the records of the doings on " the devil's night"
in the whitewashed doors and windows of dozens of dwellings
the morning after, and it has been laughable enough to witness
the consternation depicted upon the faces of some who have been
fastened in their houses, or to see the surprised looks of another
when he found he had been guarded faithfully during the night
by a patient jackass, or when he found he had been misled by
the darkened window and stayed in bed till noon, thinking it
was not yet light enough for him to arise to commence his daily
duties. Happily, the good old times in this respect are things
of the fast - disappearing present, and "mischief neet" vill
soon live but in the remembrance of a few. 8.
# Bhubband.
*^p%:
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 217
^crhsljire flrotarbs an' £p*ghs.
[Collected by Abraham Holroyd, Shipley.]
"Don't thee think to put Yorkshire o' me; I warn'tborn in a
frost."
As queer as Dick's hatband, 'at went nine times raand an'
wodn't tee.
As blake (yellow) as a paigle.
As flat as a flaun (custard).
A scald heead is sooin brocken.
As deead as a doar nail.
A vaunter an' a liar is both ya thing.
A geen horse suddn't be leuked in't maath.
A careless hussie maks monny thieves.
A man mud as weel heyt the divil as the broth at he's boiled
in.
A wool seller knaws where a wool-buyer lives.
As the sewer fills the draft sours.
A woman's tung wegs like a lamb's tail.
A new besom sweeps clean.
An ill sarvant will niver mak a good maister.
A hired horse tired niver.
A horse may stumble on four feet.
All things hes a end, an' a puddin hes two.
A friend is not knawn but in need.
A Scotchman an' a Newcastle grunstone travel all the world
over.
As nimble as a cow in a cage.
A chip o' the old block.
As they brew e'en soa let em bake.
A young saint an' owd divil.
As threng (busy) as Thrap's wife when shoo henged hersel in
her garters.
A creaking door hings long o'th hinges.
Attorney's haases are built atop a't heeads o' fooils.
A hungry dog is fain of a dirty puddin.
A reeking haase an' a scolding wife will make one weary of
his life.
A pair o' gooid spurs to borrowed horse is better nor a peck
o' haver (oats).
As nimble as a oat on a hut backstun.
As good comes behind as gangs before.
After-wit comes ow're lat.
A mile an' a wee bit.
As engry as if he'd sat on a nettle.
As true steel as Eipon rowels.
A long, lollopin lass, as lazy as she's long.
218 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
" All of you masters," as the toad said to the harrow teeth.
A blatin caa sooin forgets her cauf.
"A sneck before a snout/' is said when a man reckons on
easy success without difficulty.
A man had better have a Dule than a Dawkin.
Airs well that ends well.
All is not gold that glisters.
A cat may look at a king.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A good Jack makes a good Gill.
As long lives a merry heart as a sad one.
A merry heart goes all the way.
As welcome as water in a ship.
An old ape has an old eye.
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
A grunting wife and a groaning horse never fail.
Aye, he's a regular slitherpoke. (He lets things slide.)
A bad hedge is better than neea beild (no shelter).
As wick (lively) as a whin.
Aye, he trails a light harrow. (Has no encumbrance.)
Aye, he's a rogue, up met an1 daan thrussen.
Better sit idle nor work for nowt.
Bush natural, mair hair than wit.
Best is best cheap.
Birds of a feather aye flock together.
Beware of «« had I wist.'*
Brawling curs niver want sore ears.
Better say here it is nor here it was.
Better have a mouse in the pot as nae flesh.
Back of beyond, where t' mare foiled t' fiddler.
Blood without groats is nothing.
Bragg was a good dog, but he was hanged for biting.
Better rue sell as (than) rue keep.
Castleford lasses may weel be fair,
For they wesh in the Galder and sind (rinse) in the Aire.
Cats eat that which sluts spare.
Cradle streays are scarce out of his breech.
Cleveland in the clay, bring two schoon, carry yan away.
Cahr quiet, same as they do at Birstall.
Charity begins at home.
Change of pastures makes fat calves.
Don't stretch thi arm farther nor thi sleeves reyks.
Draff is good enough for swine.
Don't thee think to put Yorkshire o1 me; I wan't born in *
frost.
Every dog thinks his- sen a lion at home.
Every herring sud hiug be its own gills.
Every man knows best where his shoe wrings (pinches).
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 219
Every bird mun hetch her own eggs.
Every body sud be maister o' their own harstone.
Every one knaws their awn knaw. This reminds us of the
ancient song, " I knaw what I knaw.'1
February fire lang, March tide to bed gang.
For they wesh in the Calder and sind (rinse) in the Aire.
Fonl words break noa bones.
Fair words maks fools fain.
For love o' the nurse the bairn gets many a kuss.
Fair words butter noa parsnips.
Feals maks feasts an* wise men heyt 'em.
Fiddlers, dogs, an* flies come to feasts uncalled.
Fitter to be lenging nor loathing.
Fitter leave pigs lenging nor loathing. Old form.
Gien stuff is seldom cared for.
God sends the meat, an* the Deil sends the look.
Give loisers leave ta tawk.
God niver sends maaths but he sends meyt.
Geay say the geese.
Gaay an' teach thy granny ta sup milk aat ath' assridle.
Give a man luck on1 you may throw him into the sea.
He'll foreheed (predetermine) nowt bud beelding churches an'
louping owre 'em.
He is a feall that is not melancholy yance a day.
He carries coils ta Newcastle.
His bread is buttered o' both sides.
His breeks maks buttons (said of a man in fear).
He that wrussles wi muck is sure ta be dirty, whether he falls
owre or under.
He'll go thrif t' wood an tack a crewked stick at last.
He mun ha leave ta speyk at cannot hod his tung.
He that spares to speyk spares to speed.
He that speyks what he sudn't hears what he wodn't.
He is not the feall that the feall is, bud he that with the feall
deals.
He is a feall that forgets hisseln.
He mun hev a long shafted spooin 'at sups porridge wi* the
Deil.
He that has gowd may buy land.
Haste makes wastes.
He that marries a slut eats mickle (much) dirt.
Hame is hamely ant be ne'er sa poor.
He that fishes afore the net, lang fish or he fish get.
He nobbud sees an inch afore his nose.
He that gives all his gear to his bairns may tak a mill an'
knock out his harnes (brains).
Honours changes manners.
He leuks as if butter woddn'fc melt in his maath.
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He's an ill contrived bairn, I cannot constre (construe) him.
Hes to onny catterills 'e thee pocket, lad ?
He were rocked in a stone creddle.
He's as crewse (brisk) as a new weshen louse.
He's the dad of all for mischief.
He maks ducks an' drakes of his money.
He wad flea twa dules for ya skin. (Craven.)
He maks fish o' yan an1 fowl of anither.
He's a gift that God niver gav him.
He's nayther gut nor gall in him.
He'll be laffin a't wreng side of his maath sooin.
He'll mend when he grows better.
He' 8 as stiff as if he'd swallowed a poyt (poker).
He comes thro' honest Allerton, he'll dew.
He's draaned t' miller, said when a man has overdrawn his
account.
He cannot tell a B fro' a bull's fooit.
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
Happy is the bride that the rain rains on.
Hot love is soon cold.
Hawks winna pick oot hawks een.
Hungry dogs are fain o' dirty pudding.
Hope well and hove well.
He lewks as grue (sullen) as thunder. (Whitby.)
If it does not rain there will be a long drought. (That is, if
it never rains again.)
I think yer wits are goan a wool gathering.
I'm as owd as me tung, an owder nur me teeth.
It's a long loin at's niver a turnin'.
I see lang Lawrence hes getten hod on tha.
If the mare hes a bald face, the filly will hev a blaze (white
mark).
If Brayton Bargh, an* Hamilton Hough, un* Button Bream,
were all e thi belly, it wad ne'er be team.
It's all i't' day's wark.
I'll nut put off my doublet afore I gang to bed.
If wishes wad bide, beggars wad ride.
If thaa lakes (plays) wi't bull, tha'll sooin feel his horn9.
I wodn't goa on a Friday, cos' it isn't lucky.
It's come day, goa day, God send Sunday.
I've a craw ta pull wi' thee.
I wodn't heng a cat on his word.
In dock an out nettle.
Ill weeds wax fast.
Its a bad bargain when both sides rue.
Its a good horse that never stumbles.
And a good wife that never grumbles. .
I've swallowed the Kirk, but I can't swallow the steeple.
(Whitby.)
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Jackasses niver can sing weel, beoos they pitch their notes too
heigh.
Leein* is neist door to steyling.
Lang gangs t' pitcher to th' beck, bud i'th end it comes home
brokken.
Like a chip in the porridge pot.
Like a pig's tail, wegging all day, bud nowt done at neet.
Let*8 live an' let live.
Leet gains mak a heavy purse.
Love me an* love my dog.
Like a cobbler's dinner, breead an' breead to it.
Like Gawthorpe, with one road in bud noan aat.
Live horse an* thaa sail hev gerse.
44 Lets begin ageaan," as't' Clark o' Beeston said. (Good
policy when there has been a breakdown.)
Love me leetle love me long.
Lose a sheep for a haporth o' tar.
Making pricks into pracks and pracks into nothing. (That is,
leading an idle life.)
More haste warse speed.
Many a little makes a mickle.
Meat is mickle, but mense is mair.
More fowk wed than keep good haases.
My belly cries cubbord, it does.
Monny hands mak leet wark.
Men are blind i' their awn cause.
More the merrier, fewer the better fare.
Meeterly, meeterly (indifferently), as maids are in fairness.
Neither good egg nor good bird.
Neay butter will stick on his beard.
" Na, thank you/' has lost monny a gooid butter cake.
Na, doant say, "nay," when ta means "yes."
Near is my sark but nearer is my skin.
O he'll niver du, egg nur bird.
Owd men are twice barns (children).
Ollns (always) messur a peck aat o' yer own bushel.
Over much of a good thing is good for nothing.
Promises an pie crusts are made to be brokken.
Penny wise an paand foolish.
Pendlehill, Ingleborough, an Peny-ghent, )
Are the three highest hills between Scotland and Trent, J
Proffered things stink.
Robin Hood could stand anything bud a thaw wind.
" Blips goes ovver," as't man said, when he brake t' weshing
bowl.
Steyk him to t' bonny side o' t' dure (outside).
Steyk the stable door when the horse is stolen.
Savin's a gooid adlin. (Adlin, wages.)
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Send him to the sea an he will nut get watter.
Sike a man sike a maister.
Save thi wind ta cooil thi porridge.
8a miserly, he'd save the varry dropping of his nose.
She's going as fast as dike watter.
Shoo's a glib tung of her awn.
Shoo's teed a knot wi her tung at shoo cannot loose wi her
teeth.
Sooin owd, lang young.
Some fowks nivver get the cradle straws off their breeks.
Thewer nivver a faal face but thewer a faal fancy to match it.
There's no gettin white meyl out of a coil seek.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
They arn't all thieves, at dogs bark at.
There's more claat nor (than) dinner.
Tak a sope, it'll warm t' cockles o' thi heart.
Talk o'th Dale an he'll put up his horns.
Them at's duing nowt are duing ill.
Truth an sweet oil alius com to t' top.
228
They are as thick as inkle weyvers.
The beat is best ta speyk to.
There's noa fair words i' flighting (scolding).
The still sow eats all the draff.
Takkin back an' givin 's owd lad livin (said by children).
Tha mud as weel whisle as try ta mak an old drunkard sober.
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That barn's as like his fadder as if he'd been spit aat of his
maath.
There's more poak nor pudding there.
There's more killed wi ower keep nor under keep.
Twa hungry meals make the third a glutton.
This bolt com nivver aat o' your bag.
There's rare doings in the north when they bar their doors
wi' tailors.
Three great ills come out o' the north— a cowd wind, a con-
ning knave, and a shrinking cloth.
Th' hedge stinks were th' hippins hing.
They agree like bells, they want naething but hinging.
They have need of a besom that sweep the house with a turf.
There's a hill agean a slack all Craven threff (through).
Ta mioh o' owt is gooed for nowt. — Craven Proverb.
Thy toppin is snod, lad. (Toppin, the hair over the forehead;
mod, smooth.)
That flogs dolly (said when rage is carried too far.)
The bucket is in the well (said when a trader has got as far
as he can").
Thaa can nobbut grunt and growl, same as t' Wibsey fowk.
They're all queer elike.
The proof of a pudding is in the eating.
That comes in an hour sometimes, which comes not in twenty.
The man falls low who never rises.
The still sow eats all the meat.
There's no carrion can kill a crow.
That man wod stall (tire) a toad aat.
Thaa's lang a coming, thaa braads o' (like, or resembles)
haver malt.
They that eat till they sweat, and work till they're cold ;
Such folks are fitter to hang than to hold.
They that wed before they're wise, will die before they thrive.
There's nowt lost emeng honest fowk.
Who travels by Donnerblfck scars, takes a bad road.
Wishers and would-ers are never good householders.
Why, ye are as threng as three in a bed.
What's sauce for a gooise sud be sauce for a gander.
Women and weal can nivver agree.
What the eye never sees the heart never lengs for.
What's bred i'th bone 's never aat o'th flesh.
We man oather owd be or young dee.
What's ta doing there, mumping an muing ?
Weel an wimin cannot pan, bud way an wimin can.
Winnow while the wind's in the door.
War nor a clocking hen. (A grumbler.)
When t'ship lands on t' ass-midden.
What woman but for hope would break her heart.
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While the grass grows the horse starves.
You can't awlas guess eggs when yan sees shells.
Yon can have no more of a cat than the skin.
Ye've nails at wod scrat yer granny aat of hur grave.
Yan good turn desarves another.
Youth an age will niver agree.
Ye seek breeks of a bare man.
Ye brade o' the miller's dog, ye lick yer maath 'fore t' poke
be oppen.
Ye come wi' yer five eggs a penny, and four of 'em be rotten.
On Yorkshire Wit and Humour. — I do not think the people
of Yorkshire are as remarkable for wit, as they are for quaint
dry humour ; and this latter is generally of a very grim sort.
In an essay on the Yorkshire Dialect, in Nugea Literaria, the
Rev. Richard Winter Hamilton, writes: — "A week had scarcely
elapsed since my arrival (in Leeds), before I determined on an
excursion to the Moravian Settlement at Fulneck. Ignorant
of the way, I spoke to a lad who was breaking stones by the
side of the road, in a common but unmeaning manner — "Where
does this road go to ? " With contempt on his face at what he
thought a foolish question, he, half with the air of a churl, and
half that of a rogue, said, — " Go, no where : I have knawn it
for more nor ten year, an' it nivver stirred yet." A little out
of countenance, but not out of temper, I said, " Whither shall
I get to, if I drive along this road ? " "To Pudsey, sure, follow
thee nose, an aws as plain as a pikestaff." Thinks I to myself,
if such be the cub, what must they be who whelped him ? If
such be the eaglet, little more than callow, what is the region
of his sires ? Later on, on the same day, when Mr. H. sat down to
his dinner in a humble cottage, the worthy dame, wishing him
to say grace, said : — " We are all ready, will ye start us ?" He
then received the difficult direction, to "make himself agree-
able." They afterwards asked him to " raach to, and bide no
inviting.11 He decided that so far as he was concerned, for the
time, it was a hopeless case. But he loved all this when he
had learnt more of the people.
A gentleman walking in Sheffield, found a poor boy crying
most bitterly. "What are you crying about," he enquired.
He replied, — " All my brothers and sisters can say what they
like to father, bud if I say aught, its poison. I nobbud called
father an old ewe-face, an' he knocked ma daan into't ass-hoyle,
amengt' cowks. Egoy ! If me an' my brothers doant mind,
father will sooin be t'maister on us."
Here the word nobbud occurs. — Chaucer, in his "Wife of
Bath," has,—
Y.F-L. P
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
" But that I pray to all this company,
If that I speak after my fantacy,
As taketh no a grefe of that I say,
For mine intent is not but to pay."
That is, nothing but.
The following story was oommonly told when I was a lad. A
certain young lass in Horton was very sick, and supposed likely
to die. Soon all her relatives and some neighbours gathered
round her bed, and one of them asked her if she had anything
on her mind, or anything she would like to say before she de-
parted. Raising herself up on the bed, and looking round on
them all, she said: — " There is only one thing that has troubled
me, and I have always been very unhappy about it ; and that
is, that I did not eat more plum-pudding that day that aar Sal
were wed."
I have always had the impression that she got better, and
did not die at that time.
In the village of Clayton, near Bradford, there formerly dwelt
a man named Nathan Bentley, who was an inveterate wag. In
the same village there lived an old Peninsula veteran, who eked
out his small pension by hand loom weaving. He lived in a
cellar dwelling, under what is now I believe the Grown Inn.
This old man used to boast that no man could come over him,
or trap him, so Nathan resolved to try what could be done to
lower him down a peg. Now Nathan went every morning to
Bradford with milk, and one day ho noticed that there
was a good sized pool in the road, in front of the dwelling
of Hainsworth, the old soldier. On returning about noon he
stopped the horse and cart at the spot ; and began to fumble in
his pockets ; and finally he sent the horse home with the cart,
alone. He then knelt down by the side of the muddy pool, and
doubling up his shirt sleeves, began groping in the mud with
his right hand. Hainsworth saw this, and his curiosity was
excited. Then leaving his loom he went up to Nathan, and
asked him what he was looking for. Nathan told him he was
looking for a sovereign, and begged Hainsworth to help him to
find it. He then searched for about twenty minutes in the
muddy water, with Nathan on the other side, until a large
crowd had gathered round them, a thing easily managed in a
village. At length, Hainsworth said, " Nathan, where abaats
did ta drop thy sovereign?" "Nay," Nathan replied, "I've
noan dropt no sovereign, I'm nobbud seeking one." " Ah ! an
all seek thee lad, some day ! " But Nathan had run off home
as fast as his legs could carry him. The old soldier bragged
no more after that.
In a village not far from the one last mentioned, I knew a
man called Tootal, and he used to give out the hymns in the
chief Chapel of the place. It was then the custom, before
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organs and harmoniums were used in places of religious worship
for the choir, if there was one, to use the tuning fork, to get
the proper pitch for the tune. On one occasion when Mr.
Tootal was about to give out the hymn, the proper pitch was
given to him; but either through carelessness or inattention he
failed to respond properly. The consequence was, that after a
short effort the choir came to a full stop. The leader then
turned toward the pulpit, and said, " John, you have given out
the hymn on the wrong key." To which he replied, " Whether
I've given it out on the wrong key or not, ye've getten into t'
lock."
On another occasion, during the reign of his late Majesty
George IV., a friend of mine entered a chapel in the village of
Allerton, when one of the deacons was offering up the prayer
before the sermon. After asking that the blessing of Heaven
might rest on the Royal Family, he exclaimed, — "Lord
bless his present Majesty who sits on the throne of England.
Prepare him I pray Thee to wear a crown in heaven, for Thaa
knaws, Lord, at he wor nivver fit ta wear an earthly one ! "
Yorkshiremen are well known for being plain in their language,
and this was sufficiently so, but quite characteristic of the
West Biding people.
In the same chapel, before they had a regular choir of sin-
gers, it was usual for some one in the congregation to set the
tune, and there were always one or two in the congregation
who could be relied on for that duty. One Sunday morning
the one who should have struck the tune had a bad cold.
However he tried two or three times to start the tune from his
place in the gallery, but failed. He then shouted across the
chapel to another man who sometimes officiated, " I say, thee,
Jacky Wilkinson, thee set the tune this morning, I cannot, for
I've getten a kittlin' e' me throit." At which the people
laughed, as a kittling in Yorkshire means a kitten. What he
meant was, a tickling.
Before the introduction of instrumental music into the dis-
senting chapels in the West Biding, there was great disappoint-
ment amongst the choirs at its exclusion, and very strange
devices were resorted to to master the opposition. In the
Tetley Street Baptist Chapel, Bradford, the following device
was hit upon. The musical portion of the congregation and
choir formed themselves into a band, and bought all the instru-
ments needed. On these they practised until they were all
ready for the attempt, when they got possession of the key of
the school, where there was an entrance into the chapel. On
the Saturday evening all the instruments were hid away under
the seats of the singer's pew, and when the minister gave out
the first hymn, on the Sunday morning, they were all dragged
oat, and the players played, and the singers sang, and there
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was an end of the matter. The baase viol won the battle, and
all opposition in the congregation broke down at once, and the
enemies of instrumental harmony heartily accepted the change.
Every one knows that the men of the West Biding are keen
after money, when they take that way. A young man who had
been for some time courting a young woman, told his intended
father-in-law that he and Mary thought of " getting wed." "I
think its time you did," was the reply. " Aye, but how much
will ye gie her ?" " I sal give her a thousand pounds." "Nay,
bud ye'fi gie her more nor that." " No, I shall not. Her sis-
ters have a thousand each, an' she'll hev' the same." "Ah
bud, ye forget that Mary's the faalest of the lot." He had
chosen the plainest of the family, the ugly duckling, in expec-
tation that her father would give her a larger dowry, to get her
off his hands.
Here is another similar anecdote, but it is a woman this
time. Not far from Bradford, an old couple lived on their farm.
The good man had been ill for some time, when the doctor who
attended him advised that a physician should be called in from
Bradford, for a consultation. The physician came, looked into
the case, gave his opinion, and descended from the room to the
kitchen, and was there accosted by the old woman with, "Well,
doctor, what's your charge?" "My fee is a guinea!" "A
guinea, doctor, a guinea ! An' if ye come ageean will it be
another guinea?" "Yes, but I shall hardly have to come
again, I have given my opinion, and I leave him in good
hands." "A guinea, doctor, hey!" The old woman rose,
went upstairs to her husband, and the doctor heard her say,
"He charged a guinea, an' if he comes ageean it will be another
guinea. Now what do ye say ? If I were ye, I'd say no like a
Britoner, and I'd die first." This from "A Month in York-
shire," by Walter White, 1859.
This, which follows, is culled from the Family Herald : — Two
horses, a white and a sorrel, were matched for a race in York-
shire. The betting was high on the white, but the sorrel had
its backers. The day before the race it was discovered by the
friends of the white that he was off his feed, and would be in no
condition to run. So they made up a purse, and with it bribed
the rider of the sorrel to lose tho race, and let white take the
lead. To their amazement, however, the sorrel horse won the
race. " We are sold, as sure as a gun," said one of the bribers
to the other. " Did you pay him the money ? M asked the other.
" Yes, I did; and he swore we should win." "Bless my soul,"
said the other, " Is there no such thing as an honest man left
in the world ? " — heaving a sigh of vast proportions.
Abbaham Holroyd.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
I Cannot Bab the Door with my Baibn Outside.
[In the villages of the West Biding of Yorkshire there is a
tender sentiment, or custom, still prevailing. When one of a
family has been buried, or gone away, the house-door is left
unlocked for seven nights,* lest the departed might, in some
way, feel that he was locked out of his old home.]
" Suspense is worse than bitter grief —
The lad will come no more ;
Why should we longer watch and wait ?
Turn the key in the door.
From weary days and lonely nights
The light of hope has fled ;
I say the ship is lost, good wife,
And our bairn is dead."
" Husband, the last words that I spoke,
Just as he left the shore,
Were, • Come thou early, come thou late,
Thou'lt find an open door ;
Open thy mother's heart and hand,
Whatever else betide.'
And so I cannot turn the key
And my bairn outside.
" Seven years is naught to mother love
And seventy times the seven ;
A mother is a mother still,
On earth or in God's heaven.
I'll watch for him, I'll pray for him —
Prayer as the world is wide —
But, Oh ! I cannot turn the key,
And leave my bairn outside.
" When winds were loud and snow lay white,
And storm-clouds drifted black,
I've heard his step— for heart can hear;
I know he's coming back.
What if he came this very night,
And he the house-door tried,
And found that we had turned the key,
And our bairn outside ! "
The good man trimmed the candle light,
Threw on another log,
Then suddenly, he said : " Good wife !
What ails — what ails the dog ?
• I remember that the parents of a boy-friend of mine, in Halifax Parish,
kept their door unbarred for at least a year after his burial. — T.
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And what ails you ? What do yon hear ? "
She raised her eyes and cried :
" Wide open fling the house-door now,
For my bairn's outside ! "
Scarce said the words, when a glad hand
Flung wide the household door,
"Dear mother ! father ! I am come !
I need not leave you more ! "
That night, the first in seven long years,
The happy mother sighed :
" Father, now you may bar the door,
For my bairn's inside ! "
YORKSHIRE CENTENARIANS.
Ann, the wife of Joseph Yeardley, of Sheffield Park, died
December 25th, 1807. Buried in Tankersley Churchyard.
Aged 105.*
The following cutting from The Newcastle Weekly ChronicU,
May 19th, 1888, will probably be thought worthy of preserva-
tion in your valuable Y. X. & <?., and possibly some reader may
add to its interest by supplying Mrs. Bruce's maiden name,
together with the date of her marriage.
C. H. Stephenson, 22, Sefton Street, Southpobt.
Death of a Local Centenabian. — We have to announce the
death, on Sunday evening, at her residence, High Street,
Hartlepool, of Mrs. Jane Bruce, the attainment of whose 100th
year took place on Monday, April 16th, as notified in these
columns.
Mrs. Bruce has resided in Hartlepool about 70 years. Des-
pite her prolonged years, she possessed good sight, was bat
slightly deaf, retained her memory fairly well, and had scarcely
known a day's illness during her long residence in the ancient
borough. She was a native of Grindon, Yorkshire, where most
of her youth was spent, and was married at Marion, whither
she and her husband rode on horseback for the purpose. She
has had seven children, of whom two or three are between 70
and 80 years of age.
During her residence in Hartlepool she was a member, firstly,
of the Throston Primitive Methodist, and later of the Lumley
Street chapels, though of late years, she was unable to attend
the services. A constant student of scripture, she was well
versed in Biblical lore, and one of her chief sources of delight
was to repeat chapters from memory, and to sing the simple
hymns of her religious belief. She was a great-grandmother
* Thomas, son of the above, died January 22, 1841, aged 91.— J.L.B,
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 281
of a number of children, but not a single one of her own gener-
ation survived to witness her centenarian attainment, and
although her little anecdotes of bygone days were necessarily
rather brief and disjointed, she could recollect many of the
stirring events of the reign of George III., and subsequent eras.
In celebration of her centenary, a remarkable family gathering
took place, including Mrs. Clegg (daughter), Mrs. Clement
(grand-daughter), Mrs. Hunter (great-granddaughter), and a
great-great-grandson (the 6on of the last named), several others
of the family being also present, there being no fewer than four
grandmothers in the gathering. Four of her sons (the eldest
being 76) reside in Hartlepool, as also does one of her daugh-
ters. Tne venerable lady was the recipient of a number of
presents in honour of her remarkable birthday.
The death was announced, in Sept., 1867, in the parish of
St. Martin, Colchester, of Mrs. Ann Bum6ey, widow, in her
104th year. It is an interesting circumstance that she was the
daughter of the celebrated navigator, Capt. Cook, who was
massacred by the natives of Owhyee, in the South Sea Islands ;
and that she was born only a few years after the accession of
George III. to* the throne of England.
Mabt Wilkinson, who lived to the age of 109 years. She
was a native of Lunedale, but when arrived at the years of ma-
turity, she changed her residence to that of Romald-kirk, a
village in the north of Yorkshire. When she was young and
in perfect health, she walked several times to London ; some
times in four days, though the distance of 290 miles. At the
advanced age of 90, she was desirous of visiting the metropolis
again, and, buckling a keg of gin, and a quantity of provisions
on her back, to support her on her journey, she left Romald-
kirk, and reached London in five days and three hours. An
instance of vigorous age not to be equalled by the boasting
pedestrians of the present day. She lived to see four kings
reign : and is interred in a stately tomb, erected at the expense
of the inhabitants of Romald-kirk, who much esteemed and
reverenced her.
Delivering a Sod. — The Priestley litigation involving claims
in Shelf and Bradford district exceeding £500,000, advanced
another stage (Jan., 1888,) by Mr. John Priestley recovering
possession of the Shelf Hall Farm, under a judgment in ejec-
tion. The Sheriff of Yorkshire attended to put the heir at law
in possession under an order of the High Court of Justice. This
is a very unusual occurrence, and the ceremony of delivering a
green sod was gone through. Mr. Ellis received it on behalf of
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the Priestley Syndicate. About thirty actions are threatened
against persons holding lands of the late James Priestley.
Sign of Bad Weather. —Around Bradford there is a common
saying that the visit of a German Band to a Tillage indicates
approaching bad weather.
o
Bunswick is one of the most picturesque and romantic spots
on the North Yorkshire coast. We saw it at Easter, 1887, and
greatly wished to see it again during the season. It is a nice
walk from Whitby. A great land-slip is shewn, and the story
goes that only one house was left standing by this disaster. In
our Notes and Queries Section will be found a record of collections
being made by briefs to recoup the inhabitants, a proof that we
little expected to meet with when we scrambled down the pre-
cipitous, alum-shaly cliff. The Tillage hangs against the north
Ruoswick.
cliff, and one has to wind about by footpaths from house to
house. Standing at one door, you look down the next neigh-
bour's chimney. Against the rugged ground, the houses are
built like swallows' nests. About the middle of the bay is the
remnant of Hob Hole, once a caTe of one hundred feet deep,
where lived a sprite named Hob, who was presumed to be able
to cure the whooping-cough. The mothers in olden times, with
their suffering babies in their arms, shouted at the mouth of
the caTe : —
" Hob Hole Hob,
My bairn's gotten t' kincough,
Tak't off, tak't off.
Mr. Walter White tells us that if Hob refused to be propiti-
ated they tried another way, and catching a live hairy worm
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288
(woolly boy),. they hung it in a bag from the child's neck, and
as the worm died and wasted away so did the cough. If this
failed, a roasted mouse, or a piece of bread-and-butter adminis-
tered by the hands of a virgin, was infallible; and if still
obstinate, as a last resort, the child was passed nine times
under the belly of a donkey. The present generation of Buns-
wickians disclaim such odd notions, but they are not so daring
as to say there was no efficacy in these old charms in days gone
bye. Old Thomas Cooper, the postman, who has trudged and
trotted his daily round for scores of years, should be taken in
hand by the local antiquary or the old-time life will be lost to
posterity. He is a genial old soul, a hearty hale fellow. At
Loftiis, the same day, we met with another village character —
old William Dobson — who talked as if he were going to live
another four score years, and from a marvellously trustworthy
memory recounted the story of Boulby, Easington, Streethouses,
Loftns, Skinningrove, Carlinhow and Brotton, from Roman
times, nothing of which he has committed to paper, and shewed
us, besides his Boman Coins, a Boman encampment west of the
church (but quite apart from the churchyard), now known as
Cockhill or Cockpit. It is a small quadrangular earthwork.
That day we walked from Whitby to Saltburn. Ed.
Whitby Arms.
" They told how in their convent cell
A Saxon princess once did dwell,
The lovely Edelfled ;
And how of thousand snakes, each one
Was changed into a coil of stone
When holy Hilda pray'd ;
Themselves, within their holy bound,
Their stony folds had often found.
284 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
They told how seafowls' pinions fail,
As over Whitby's towers they sail,
And sinking down, with flutterings faint,
They do their homage to the saint."
Thus, in verse, is enshrined the popular idea of the origin of
the ammonites found so plentifully on the Whitby coast and
figured on the Whitby Arms. Saint Hilda was a noted person-
age as we mentioned in the sketch of the holy well at Hinder-
well, but she was not the only miracle worker of the district.
Near Hawsker are the stones which mark where the arrows
fell, when Robin Hood and Little John, who had been treated
to a dinner at the Abbey of Whitby, (?) went up on the roof to
gratify the monks with a specimen of their skill. " As your
eye measures the distance, more than a mile, your admiration
of the merry outlaws will brighten up, unless, like the incredu-
lous antiquary, you consider such stories are only fit to be left
« among the lyes of the land '." W.
York Castle. — "Whoever is imprisoned at York shall, on
going in, pay a penny for a cord, although he be a true man;
and so, if he be found guilty the gaoler shall find for him a
rope; and if he be set free he loses his penny." This statement
was inserted by an ancient annotator at fol. 58a. of his copy of
Bracton. (See Mr. Horwood's Introduction to the Year Books,
20 and 21 Edward I., p. xvii). Can any of your readers say
when, and how, this custom originated, and when, and how, it
ceased ? Q. V.
The Bradford Waits. — Bradford has made wonderful strides
of progress in recent years. But much of this " progress " has
been at the sacrifice of some old customs and institutions that
were very dear to old Bradfordians. Several years have now
passed away since the old Christmas Waits were last heard in
the streets of the old town, and when a few more years have
rolled away the fact that they ever existed at all will be spoken
of as a thing only of the " olden time." *
The oldest Company of Waits in Bradford was formed about
ten years before the incorporation of the Borough, or shortly
before the passing of the Beform Bill. In the year 1829, Mr.
Ellis Cunliffe Lister (father of the present Mr. S. C. Lister),
and Mr. Matthew Thompson, who sat as magistrates at the
" 8potted Horse," Manningham Lane, and at the Sun Inn,
Bradford, gave permission to one Samuel Smith, otherwise
11 Blind Sam," to form a company of Waits for the town, which
did not then number more than 20,000 inhabitants.
Sam was not long in finding three other associates, all blind,
who were willing to join his " company," and another (who was
not blind) to act as guide. The names of Sam's blind compan-
ions were, Jim Fletcher, Billy Blazeby, and Jack Dodge.
YORKSHIBE FOLKLORE.
285
Furnished with musical instruments, and all tied to a pole,
except the guide, they began their nightly perambulations,
making music that could hardly be called sweet, but which,
linked with the festive season of Christmas and other interest-
ing associations, was always welcome, especially to the young
who liked nothing better than to get out of bed and have one
peep at the odd procession as it passed along the street.
Bradford Waits.
But alas for the uncertainty of human plans and schemes t
In 1862 a rival band of Waits, which had the presumption to
call itself " The New Borough Waits," sprung into existence,
so that instead of one band the town could now boast of two.
This led to jealousies, bickerings and retaliations, and the walls
of Bradford were placarded with bills headed "Caution,"
"Notice," &c. ; "all of which," says Mr. Abraham Holroyd,
our informant, " was very foolish, if the parties concerned had
only considered that Bradford was then five times as large as
it was thirty years previously (when " Blind Sam " first began
the movement). If they had only agreed to divide the Borough
and the yearly gifts between them, there was plenty of room
for both bands, and two more if competition must come."
286 YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
. Whether it was that Bradford people did not care to patronise
two sets of Waits, or that so oldfashioned an institution could
not adapt itself to the new streets and new modes of life that
had come upon the town, we will not venture to say. Certain
it is that the " Bradford Waits," both the old set and the new,
have ceased to exist, and will in coarse of time pass into the
limbo of " forgotten things." W. Scbutoh.
Ghosts. — Primitive man knew how to outwit the ghost. For
example, a ghost can only find his way back to the house by
the way which he left it. This little weakness did not escape
the vigilance of our ancestors, and they took their measures
accordingly. The coffin was carried out of the house, not by
the door, but by a hole made for the purpose in the wall, and
this hole was carefully stopped up as soon as the body had been
passed through it ; so that, when the ghost strolled quietly
back from the grave, he found to his surprise that there was
no thoroughfare. The credit of this ingenious device is shared
equally by Greenlanders, Hottentots, Bechuanas, Samoieds,
Ojibway6, Algonquin8, Laosians, Hindoos, Thibetans, Siamese,
Chinese, and Feejeeans. These special openings, or " doors of
the dead," are still to be seen in a village near Amsterdam, and
they were common to some towns of central Italy, as Perugia
and Assisi. A trace of the same custom survives in Thuringen,
where it was thought that the ghost of a man who had been
hanged would return to the house if the body be not taken oat
by a window instead of the door. The Siamese, not content
with carrying the dead man out by a special opening, endeavour
to make assurance doubly sure by hurrying him three times
round the house at full speed— a proceeding well calculated to
bewilder the poor soul in the coffin. The Auraucaniana adopt
the plan of strewing ashes behind the coffin as it is being borne
to the grave, in order that the ghost may not be able to find
his way back. The very general practice of closing the eyes of
the dead appears to have originated with a similar object ; it
was a mode of blindfolding the dead, that he might not see the
way by which he was carried to his last home. We have seen
several doors walled up on the north side of churches in the
East Biding, and heard such doors named "Dead door/*
(? Excommunicate door.) Further information is desired. — E.Y.
Horn-Blowing at Ripon.— The following interesting account
of this ancient Yorkshire custom is extracted from an article
by Mr. W. Andrews, in Tlte Argonaut ;
At fiipon a custom is retained which originated with the
Saxons, and is perhaps one of the oldest in England; it is now
useless, but is an interesting relic of days of yore. Alfred the
Great incorporated this city in 886 ; the regulation of the plaee
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE. 287
was committed to the care of a wakeman with a competent staff
of elders and assistants, who instituted the horn-blowing service.
An old writer describes the ancient ceremony as follows : " It
was, indeed, the custom of the Vigillarius, or Wakeman, to
order that a horn should be blown every night at nine o'clock ;
and if any house or shop was broken open, or robbed, after that
blowing of the horn, till the rising of the sun, why then the
loss was obliged to be made good to the suffering inhabitant.
For this obligation or insurance, every householder used to pay
fourpence a year; but if there was a back door to another
street, from which double danger might be supposed, then it
was to be eightpence." The payment of the tax is discontinued,
but the horn is still blown at the accustomed time. The horn-
blower gives three long blasts before the residence of the mayor,
and one blast at the Market Cross. The sound is rather dismal
but yet musical. It is a common cow's horn (with a metal
mouthpiece), curved in shape, measuring three feet six inches
long. By means of a leather strap across the bend of it, the
horn is carried. The horn-blower carries his instrument in
front of the mayor and corporation when they attend church.
On April 2, 1846, died, at the age of eighty-two, a famous
horn-blower, named Benjamin Simmonds, who had occupied
his appointment for thirty years. It is said he excelled all
previous horn-blowers for the length and strength of blast.
But now no more they'll hear his blast,
For Benjamin has blown his last.
For thirty- three years his son has filled the office. The horn
now used is not the original one ; this is kept in the possession
of the mayor; and Mr. Frank Buckland, who saw it in October,
1874, thus describes it: "This ancient horn is not blown; it
is handsomely mounted, and fastened on to a black velvet scarf,
which is worn on the shoulders. At the juncture of the scarf
with the horn are silver models of a miniature spur and cross-
bow. On the horn is this inscription : * Antiquis et honorem
et premia possi — (I cannot quite construe this)— Vetustate lap-
sum restituit — J. Aieelbie, ABM., 1708.' On the lower part —
'This horn was again restored, 1854, H. Morton, Mayor.'
Attached to the velvet scarf are several silver plates. Every
mayor on resigning office adds, or is supposed to add, a silver
plate. I made a note of some of the dates, as follows : — 1598,
1570, 1595, 1602, 1658. Some of {he coats of arms and bosses
are shaped like a sailor's hat. Several also are curious antique
shapes. I was informed that the oldest badges are those of a
Wakeman who lived in the time of Henry VIII., the name of
one Gayscar, Wakeman in 1520, being marked especially."
Mr. William Harrison, late editor of the Eipon and Richmond
Chronicle, told Mr. Buckland " that the horn itself is certainly
of a date not later than the Conquest ; that its form is true
288 YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Saxon, and that there is another such shaped horn, made of
ivory, preserved in the vestry of York Cathedral. This is the
horn of Ulphas,* who was prince of the western parts of Deira.
The Pasey horn is of the same peculiar elongated shape as of
the horns of York and Bipon, and illuminations in Saxon
manuscripts frequently give representations of horns shaped
like those at Bipon and York." The name of Wakeman was
exchanged for that of Mayor in 1604. Hugh Bipley was the
last Wakeman and first Mayor. In the nave of Bipon Cathe-
dral a monument is placed to his memory.
There is another horn-blowing custom at Bainbridge in
Wensleydale, in the North Biding ; and at Otley, in the West
Biding, it is still carried out. Mr. William Smith, junior,
F.S.A. Scot., in his valuable volume, "Bambles about Morley,"
informs us that, in looking over the village constable's expenses
for 1781, he found an entry :— " September 21st. — Paid to Ben
Fosterd for blowing the horn, 6d." The horn was blown at five
o'clock every morning for beginning, and at eight at night, the
time for leaving work. On Christmas morn a special immunity
was granted to the servants and apprentices, who were allowed
to lay undisturbed, except as they heard the " nominy " of the
person who blew the old horn and sang —
" Dames, rise and take your pies,
And let your maids lie still."
In Whitby Abbey lived and sang Caedmon, the first of the
Saxon poets. Many old customs still linger here, and a curious
ceremony is performed on every Ascension Eve, known as the
" Horngarth." It is referred to by Sir Walter Scott in "Mar-
mion" : —
" Then Whitby's nuns exulting told
How to their house three barons bold,
Must menial service do ;
While horns blow out a note of shame,
And monks cry, ' Fye upon your name !
In wrath for loss of sylvan game,
Saint Hilda's priest ye slew ;
This on Ascension Day each year,
Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy bear."
The authority for the origin of this custom is an ancient
document, evidently as much a fiction as " Marmion." The
historian of Whitby, Dr. Young, in his history, gives the docu-
ment in full, and it will also be found in " Whitby and its
Vicinity," by F. K. Bobinson. See Blount's Tenure*, Y.X.Q.
As to the true origin of the Horngarth service, Dr. Young
supposes it to be a yearly summons to those of the abbot's
vassals whose duty it was to keep the fences of his storeyards
* See engraving of it in Yorkshire Notes and Queries.
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 289
sear the water in repair. This garth, he adds, being superse-
ded by the erection of better yards and more commodious
warehouses ; still the abbot and convent, ever jealous of their
rights, compelled their tenants, or those who did not purchase
an exemption, to continue this service, or at least, the semblance
of it; and thus the* shadow was retained while the substance
was gone. Hence, in the course of a generation or two, the
origin of this service, which then appeared useless and frivolous,
began to be forgotten, an opportunity was furnished to the
monks, or some one of them, to invent a fable which might
both account for the practice and keep it up. The horn still
blown on Ascension Eve to gather the people together on the
south side of the River Esk, which forms the harbour, and
within high-water mark, where it is supposed the ancient horn-
garth was made, as a fenced-off place for storing goods, the
penny hedge is planted.
SIMEON RAYNER.
A Folk-lorist before the word folk-lore was promulgated, and
an early contributor to Notes and Queries (London, weekly), Mr.
Rayner's portrait may well stand as frontispiece to this first
volume of Yorksldre Folk-Lore, He not only proposed a rough
draft of the Folk-lore section, but contributed articles for its
pages. Outside the most engrossing of his favourite studies
and researches, the History of Pudsey, the one subject of anti-
quarianism that took him farthest afield was Folk-Lore. His
great faculty of observation led him early to note the curious
customs lingering in village life. He was indebted to his own
plodding industry for his literary attainments, as he left school
(if such a word is suited to the instruction and place, a cottage,)
when nine years of age. Assiduously attentive to business
from that time to the date of his death, he was no less plodding
during the same period as a scholar and student. With largely
developed caution, he ever made steady progress, financially,
mentally, politically, morally. Outshining all his qualities was
his serene rectitude. He was as tolerant of other people's
opinions, as he was firm in maintaining his own. Suaviter in
modo, fortiter in re. He was specially gentle with an incon-
siderate opponent. He had a large circle of friends, by many
of whom he was intensely revered. He lived a busy life;
laboured as scholar at Mechanics1 Institute when young, after
the daily business toils were over, and endeavoured to dissem-
inate truths as Sunday School Teacher, Mechanics' Institute
Director, School Board Member, and Politician. He died at
Pudsey, his native place, August 25th, 1886, aged 54. The
only book he ever aspired to publish was the " History of Pud-
sey," which was successfully edited and issued the following
year by Mr. W. Smith.
240
YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE.
Typical Yobkshibkmen. — On
pages 222 and 228 are figured the
jolly and the depraved Yorkshire
labourer. We turn to two public
functionaries, typical of York-
shiremen in every parish, but in
this case portraits of Bradford
notabilities drawn by a fellow
townsman. Jonas Tasker was sex-
ton at Bradford Parish Church in
George the Third's reign. He is
described as a tall, well-made
Bentley.
Tasker.
man, lithe as a willow, 'ga-
thering them into the fat, old
graveyard* with an unction
worthy of his sober calling.
His dress was as he is pictured,
Sunday and Warty (Weekday),
except on the former days he
sported a smock of becoming
cleanness, and it was only on
the rarest occasion that he wore
a tight-fitting coat. Abraham
Bentley was the town -crier,
beadle, and parish constable.
There were then no illustrated
placards on the walls, « fine
enough to decorate a house ; '
large posters even were un-
known ; the bell-man was the
medium of communication
when it was requisite to make
anything known to the town.
Bovu.
T. Harrison, Printer, Bookbinder. &e., Queen Street, Bingley.
241
Mttbtx $tominnm.
(Yorkshire Folk-Lore, Paris I-XLL)
[Compiled by Mr. G. F. Tudor Shebwood, 88, Museum Street,
Oxford Street, W.]
Aiselbie, 237
Alfred the Great, 286
Andrews, 1, 101, 119,
143, 236
Anthony, 58, 60, 63
Aram, 168
Armytage, 174, 207
Arthur, King, 146, 154,
212
Atkinson, 94, 135
Ayrton, 175
Backhouse, 22
Bailey, 169
Baker, 5
Baring-Gould, 67
Barnes, 206
Earning, 135 '
Barratt, 7, 8
Bates, 68
Bathorst, 66
Baxter, 135
Beasley, 33
Bede, 99
Bell, 9, 121
Benfield, 173
Bentley, 226, 240
Benton, 57
Bland, 23, 24
Blazeby, 234
Bodin, 205
Bomar, 62
Booth, 126
Bower, 64
Bowers, 71
Boyd, 172
Braithwaite, 196
Brearley, 133
Brierley, 206
Bristol, Bp. of, 108
Broadley. 134
Bronte, 67
Brook, 123, 124, 125
Brownbridge, 57
Brace, 230
Bromfitts, 6
Baekland, 237 bis
Bullen, 35
Buhner, 57
T. F-L.
Burdsal, 123, 125
Burnett, 68
Burns, 172
Barton, 99, 162.
Busby, 66
Butler, 214
Caedmon, 238
Calbert, 75
Calvert, 59
Caason, 124
Cateby, 134
Cavffl, 135
Chapman, 58
Charles of Lorraine, 63
Clark, 6, 7, 63, 133
Clarkson, 8, 62
Clegg, 231
Clement, 231
Clifford, 27 bis
Cockroft, 2
Coe, 67
Conyers, 59
Constantino, 154, 200
Cook, 200, 231
Cooper, 233
Cox, 1, 202
Craighton, 135
Cranbrook, 174
Crawford, Lord, 172
Cromack, 134
Cromwell, 9, 34, 36, 73,
157
Crowe, 61, 64
Crowther, 122
Cumby, 58
Dacre, Lord, 145
Daniel, 45
Darney, 74
Dawson, 86, 94, 123, 124,
125, 168, 173
Day, 168
Deloney, 136
Demaine, 168
Dinsdale, 10
Dixon, 199
Dobson, 233
Dodge, 234
Douce, 205
Dowlah, 185
Drake, 36, 135
Drayton, 195
Dunning, 56
Dyson, 25
Eddows, 7
Edward III,, 105
Edward VI., 35
Elizabeth, Qu., 35
EUand, 25
Ellenborough, 197
Ellis, 231
Ely, Bp. of, 108
EmpsaU, 167
Emngham, 27
Faber, 192
Fairfax, 39, 40
Fairer, 87, 134 bis, 193
Faustus, 159
Fawcett, 9, 11, 58, 59, 73
Fawthrop, 135
Felton, 156
Fenton, 213
Finding, 5
Firmadge, 10
Firth, 6
Fitzwilliam, 91
Fletcher, 234
Fordun, 155
Fortescue, 171
Fosterd, 238
Fothergill. 26
Frazer, 108
Gale, 61
Garbutt, 57
Gardiner, 152, 189
Garnett, 71 p.
Gaskell, 67
GayBcar, 237
George IV., 227
Gibson, 56
Gladstone, 73
Goethe, 159
Goodricke, 169
Gorsthorpe, 139
242
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE.
Graham, 61
Graves, 135
Gray, 56
Green, 87
Greenwood, 91
Gresham, 39
Grey, 169
Grimshaw, 74, 75, 76
Hailstone, 146, 190
Hainsworth, 227
Hall. 8
Hamilton, 133, 325
Hanley, 28, 89
Hardcastle. 76
Hardwick, 200, 207
Hardy. 174
Harrison, 104, 237
Haverah, 141
Hay, 24
Heald, 87
Hedges, 194
Helena, 200
Henry VII L, 35
Herrick, 205
Hewson, 198
Heywood.3,156,189,201
Hick, 123, 124, 125
Hindley, 2
Hirst, 68
Hobkirk, 45
Hobson, 193
Hodgekins, 136
Hodgson, 168
Holland, 167 bis, 201
Hollindrake, 56
Holmes, 110
Holroyd, 217, 235
Holt, 87
Horsfall, 183 p.
Horwood, 234
Hotham, 168
Houseman, 139
How, 61
Howngate, 27
Hufeland, 56
Hulbert, 8
Hunter, 45, 231
Hutton, 59, 71
Ineson, 9
Ingram. 193
Ismay, 210
Jackson, 87, 88
James, 40, 196
James I., 36
James II., 37
Jenkins, 56, 57, 169
Jennings, 193
Joanna of Castile, 155
John o' Gaunt, 141
Johnson, 9
Ketel, 194
Eirton, 138
Enowles, 164, 180, 182
Kohl, 56
Lancaster, 89
Lassels, 27
Law, 57, 197
Lawrence, 120
Laycock, 171
Leake, 69
Learmont, 143
Lebrecht, 163
Leeds, Duke of, 59
Lees, 45
Lewis, 45, 66
Lewis XIV., 37
Ling, 134
Lister, 40 bis, 68, 75,
182, 234
Lobley, 184, 135
Lucas, 89
Lumley, 66
Lyttleton, 62
Maciver, 190
Mackay, 141
Malcolm, 46
Malmesbury, 197
Maria-Theresa, 68
Marlowe, 159
Marvel, 35
Mary I., 85
Mary, Qu. of Scots, 89
Mason, 9
Mawbank, 63
Mawhood, 188
Mercer, 91
Mercier, 136, 192
Metcalfe, 9
Millies, 186
Milton, 7, 8
Mitchell, 86
Montfort, 155
Montgomery, 181
Moor, 135
Moore. 9
Moresin, 205
Morrall, 66
Morton, 287
Myers, 135
Navey, 182
Neale, 67
Nelson, 123, 125
Newcastle, 40 bis
Newport, 40
Newton, 126
Nicholson, 6, 193
Noble, 64
Northrop, 122, 172
Nowell, 45
Ogleby, 184
Parker, 125
Parkinson, 161
Pearse, 185
Pearson, 59, 185, 171'
Peel, 186
Peokover, 71
Penrose, 19
Philips, 182
Phillips, 136, 192
Pierson, 174
Pilkington, 213
Preston, 123, 125
Priestley, 215, 231
Puoh, 99
Pyrah, 208
Quarmby, "26
Ramsay, 67, 215
Ramsden, 8
Ratcliffe98
Rawson, 174, 207
Ray, 59
Rayner, 2, 87, 239
Reade, 96
Rhodes, 124
Rice, 208
Richard II., 104
Rimbault, 1
Ripley, 238
Robert of Glo'ster, 154
Roberts, 106, 214
Robin Hood, 2, 146, 178,
234
Robinson, 59, 61, 23d
Robson, 66
Rogers, 181
Rokeby, 144
Rollinson, 168
Rookes, 71
Ross, 120, 181
Routh, 167
Rovin, 62
Ramsey, 231
Rupert, Prince, 39
St. Helena, 154
St. Hilda, 234, 238
INDEX NOMINUM.
24»
St. John of Beverley, 99,
197
St. Quintin, 198
Savile, 59, 122
Saywell, 23, 44, 57, 166,
187
Schomberg, Duke, 134
Scot, 205
Scott, 54, 65, 182, 205,
238
Screeton, 168
8croton, 17, 72, 209
Sellers, 134
Senior, 102, 125, 139,
167
Shaw, 59
Shent, 75
Shipton, 1. 31. 32
Simmonds, 237
Skeat, 1
Skevington, 214
Slack. 22
Slingsby, 169
Slugg,9
Smirkson, 63
Smith, 121 p., 122, 166.
168, 169. 234. 238, 239
Smithson, 58, 63
Snowden, 55
Somen, 115
Southampton, Lord, 171
Southey. 181
Sonthiel, 32
Spence, 172
Spencer, Earl, 181
Stairman, 59
Stead, 2
Stephenson, 198, 230
Stocks, 167
Btorrs, p*eud.y 127, 139,
200, 207
Stow, 185
Stricket, 88
Stringer. 56
Stuart, 9, 10
8turdy, 57
Surrey, Earl, 60
Sykes, 56
Talbott, 27
Tankard, 39
Taeker, 240
Tate, 181
Taylor, 9, 90
Tempest, 174
Terry, 25 bis
Th , 87
Thirlwall, 120
Thompson, 87, 91, 194,
234
Thorns, 56, 152
Thornton, 122
Thriscroft, 59
Throp, 122
Tillotson, 8
Tinkler, 121
Todd, 133
Tootal, 226
Tucker, 106
Tudor, 35
Turner, 88, 190
Twigg, 6
Ulphas, 238
Villiers, 156
Vint, 86
Walbank, 63
Walker. 62, 135
Ward, 210
Wastell, 59, 61
Watts, 45, 120
Waumsley, 207
Webster, 179
Wesley, 74, 75
Wharncliffe, 9
Whitaker, 200
White, 181. 228, 233
Whiteley, 57
Wilkinson, 56, 134, 135,
201, 227, 231
Wilson, 57, 194
Winn, 194
Wolsey. 33
Wood, 45
Wooler, 135
Wordsworth, 199, 201
Worlidge, 62
Wren, 88
Wriggleaworth, 135
Wright, 58, 64
Wrightson, 133
Wroe, 5, 17, 210
Yarrell, 205
Yeardley, 57, 230
Young, 238
Zorten, 63
f nfcs Jtotaxnm.
( Yorkshire Folk-Lore.)
[Compiled by Mr. O. F. Tudor Sherwood, 88, Museum Street,
Oxford Street, W.]
Acklam. 57
Ackworth, 22, 24
Adwalton moor, 40
Aire, 5, 6
Aldermanbnry, 6
Alderscholes, 56
Alegar Well. 3, 196
Aleley Wood, 25
Allerton, 136, 227
Almondbury, 45
AlTerthorpe, 7
Amsterdam, 236
Arkengarthdale, 22, 66
Ashton-under-Lyne, 6,
206
Assisi, 286
Australia, 7
Aysgarth, 9
Bacup, 142
Bagby Fields, 172
Bagley, 134
Baildon, 142
Bainbridge, 23g
Baltimore, 59
Banner street, 135
Barkerend, 7o
Barley, 76
Barnard Castle, 145
Barnbow, 123
Barnsley. 144
Bath, 225
Batley, 25, 89
244
YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE.
Bawtry, 57
Beeston, 124
Beggar's-gill-Well, 194
Benares, 162
Beswick, 45
Beverley, 99, 115, 119,
144, 168
Black Syke, 208
Blakehill, 88, 89
Boiling Hall, 38
Bolton, 9, 56, 57, 58, 59,
60, 64, 134
Bolton Castle, 167
Bowes Ca6tle, 144
Bowling, 6, 17, 69
Boyne, 134
Bradford, 6, 7. 8, 17, 40,
45, 87, 135, p., 196,
207, 208, 214, 227,
232, 234, 240
Bramley, 94, 172, 173
Bretton, 22, 45
Brighouse, 30, 155
Brighton, 2
Brook, 133
Barley, 104
Calderdale, 29, 161
Calder Vale, 12
Calverley, 134, p.
Camlan, 154
Canker Wells, 194
Carleton, 136
Carlisle, 168
Castleton, 155
Catterick, 58, 59, 60
Cattering, 63
Cawood, 34
Chesterfield, 189
Chorlton, 193
Clayton, 122, 226
Cleckheaton, 182
Cleveland, 140, 193, 205
Cliff Wood, 196
Clifton, 38
Cliviger, 201
Colchester, 231
Colne, 122
Cornwall, 76
Cotherston, 144
Cotterdale, 9
Cover, 197
Coverdale, 197
Coverham, 197
Coverside, 197
Cowling Head, 45
Craven, 191
Crow Nest, 31
Danby, 147
Denholme, 122, 135, bis
Dewsbury, 29
Doe Park, 144
Doncaster, 144
Dring Houses, 83
Drumming Well, 194, 198
Earl's Barton, 193
Earltown, 143
Easingwold, 127
Eastbrook House, 71
Eastricgton, 57
Ebbing and Flowing Well
195
Eoclesall, 56
Eccleshill, 123, 126
Edinburgh, 190
Edmonton, 203
Eland, 25
EUerton, 56, 58, 60
Elton, 57
Epping Forest, 177
Epworth, 169
Eskdale, 93
Evesham, 155
Eyebright Well, 194
Fewston, 168
Fieldhead, 215
Flodden, 60, 167
Fountains Abbey, 146
Frankfort, 159
Fulneck, 225
Gargrave, 200
Gasthwaite, 168
George Street, 135
Giggleswiok, 195, 196,
197
Gilling, 144
Glaisdale, 57, 194
Glasgow, 75
Glastonbury, 154, 212
Gomersal. 8, 180, 132, p.
Gormire, 145
Gorton, 193
Gray's Inn, 185
Great Horton, 122
Grindon, 230
Guisborough, 94
Halifax, 136
Halton, 168
Handsworth Woodhouse,
189
Hardrow, 9, 10, 11, 25
Hargreave, 6
Harpham, 197, 198
Harrogate, 88, 194
Hart Leap Well, 199
Hartlepool, 230. 231
Hartshead. 8, 142
Hatfield Woodhouse, 169
Haverah Park, 141
Hawkswell, 193, 194
Haworth, 74
Hawsker, 146, 234
Heckmondwike, 45, 139,
181
Hedon, 92
Hell Beck Lands, 9
HelliweU, 3, 196
Hertford. 193
Hessle, 135
High Abbotside, 9, 25
High Dam, 194
Hinderwell, 234
Hobhole, 232
Holbeck, 152
Holderness, 92
Holme, 66
Holmfirth, 8. 209
Holroyd Hall, 208
Holstein, 202
Holywell, S
Hornby Castle, 69
Hornsea Church, 146
Horton, 135, 226
Hnddenfield, 123
Hull, 134, 139
Hundhill Hall, 24
Idel. 80, 134, bis
Idle Thorpe, 5
Ilkley Wells, 194
KettleweU, 194
Kingston, 104
Kipling, 58, 59
Kippax, 22
Kirby, 145
Kirkgate, 174
Kirklees, 9, 146, 154,
174, 177
KirkstaU, 9. 173
Knaresborongh, 32, 139,
141, 168
Lady's Well, 191, 197,
199
Lartington, 145
Lealholm, 194
Leeds, 19. 135, 145. 152,
193. 194, 201, 225
Leicester, 10, 34
Leipsic, 163,
Little Horton, 87, 135
Loftus, 233
|nrksljir^ Jinks anir (games,
WITH WHICH 18 INCORPORATED
Dtrrksljir* IfalMfart ImtrnaL
90 ILLUSTRATIONS.
Edited by J. HORSFALL TURNER,
Idel, Bradford.
Vol. II.
glviniefr for *foe <BMt<nr
BY T. HARRISON AND SONS, QUEEN STREET, B1NGLEY.
I 890.
>£t
PAGE.
York Gaol Delivery, Burn-
ing to Death, Criminal
Statistics, 1775 - 1.
Woollen Trade, 1726 - 8.
Wakefield Prison, 1605-1881 5.
Huddersfield Cavalry, 1817 10.
Militia 15.
Poem on Ingleborough
District - - - 16, 65.
Langfellowe and Holling
Hall 18.
Jackson and Early Baptists 28.
Jollie's Sheffield Nonconft.
Regr. - - - 40.
Yorkshire, &c, New Books,
49, 186, 208, 289.
Eugene Aram - - 54.
Grindletonians - - 57.
Washburn Place-Names 57.
Mount Grace Holy Well 61.
Centenarians 62, 252, 294.
Arthington, &c, hals - 62.
Warley May Pole - 62.
Flambro* Nominy - 68.
Yorkshire Chap-books 68, 202.
MirfieldHall - - 64.
Yorkshire Sayings - Q5.
Knaresbro', Poetical Folk-
lore 66.
Saxon Grit— A Poem - 85.
Keighley Quaker Register,
87, 145, 225.
Beaumont Tradition - 96.
Granny Hall, Brighouse 97.
Barmston, Monceaux,
Boynton - - 98.
Hull Mansion House - 101.
Hilston, St. Quintin - 101.
Brandesburton, Fitz-Hugh 102.
Howley Hall - 104, 167-8.
Congregational Churches,
122, 161.
PAGE.
1 Sykes' Free-Trade Tract 169.
, Hull Seamen's Strikes 172.
: Winestead Church and
Families - - 173.
f 177, correct Angli, sed
! AngelL)
Nunburnholme Cross - 181.
! Canute's York Coins 187, 241.
j Dove Cote, Dowker Gill
Cavern - - - 189.
i Honley Church and
j Village - 198, 288, 855.
! Burning Women - 202.
j Register Wants - - 202.
| Sherburn School Register,
I 209, 278.
j Stanbury Quaker Register, 281.
j Yorkshire Views, War-
! burton's, Brit. Mus. 244.
Hkley - - - 250.
Puritan Emigration - 251.
Otley Parish Registers 258.
Yorkshire Dialect 254, 256.
Wordsworth in Yorkshire 257.
Relics, British and Roman 267.
Rev. R. V. Taylor, B.A. 271.
Rev. S. Baring-Gould 272.
Bradford Market Cross 272.
Doncaster Mayors - 272.
Witty Doctor - 293, 860.
Wakefield Manor Rolls,
1272-1806 - - 294.
Nidderdale, the Switzer-
land of England - 305.
Halifax Library and
Museum - - 817.
Rishworth School - 817.
Halifax Parish Registers 318.
A Day at Skipton - 828.
Gainford Register (p. 290) 860.
Kildwick - - - 860.
PAGE.
Barmston Manor House (from Part XIV.) - - - 98:
Brandesburton Church „ „ - - 99.-
Rev. R. V. Taylor and Rev. S. Baring-Gould - - 271>
Kildwick Lang Kirk 860.-
Sir Robert de Sty veton, Arms of Plumpton, Swire, Garforth 860.
PAGE.
Holling Hall, Ilkley - 18.
Dumb Steeple, Kirklees 49.
Knaresbro' Views and
Comic Sketches (22) 66-85.
Granny Hall, Brighouse 97.
Barmston Church (2) - 98.
Monceaux Seals (2) - 99.
De la See Arms - - 99.
Boynton Arms (2) - 100.
Hull Mansion House - 101.
Hilston Mount - - 102.
St. Quintin Arms (2) - 102.
Brandesburton Church
Niche - - - 108.
Brandesburton Moat - 108.
Fitz-Hugh Arms - 108.
Howley Hall Views (8)
104-120.
Congregational Churches
(16). (Selby, Halifax,
Saltburn,Ravensthorpe,
Pudsey, Darlington,
Whitby, Kirkby-
Stephen, Drighlington,
Reeth, Shelf, Fulford,
Ilkley, Knareftro') 128-185.
Wakefield Arms, Town
and Families (10) - 187.
Aldbrough Sundial - 188.
PAGE.
Congregational Churches
(7). (Ripon, Scarboro',
Barnsley, Hillhouse,
Rotherham, Sheffield,
Brightside.) - 161-167.
Howley, Copley, Saville
Arms (4) - - 168.
Winestead Church (8),
Effigy, Hildyard Arms
(2), Hilton Arms (2),
Maister, Bailey, Rolht
Arms, Andrew Marvel,
M.P. - - 178-181.
NunburnholmeCross(8) 184-5.
Kilnsey Crag, Malham
Cove, Gordale, Bolton
Abbey (6), Barden (2),
Strid - - 257-267.
British and Roman Relics
(18) - -
Bradford Cross -
Nidderdale (6) -
Yorke Arms
Halifax Museum
Rishworth School
Halifax Parish Church 819.
Skipton (Church, Castle,
Portraits, Arms, &c.,86)
828-355.
268-270.
- 27-2.
807-815.
- 807.
- 817.
- 818.
WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED
|orks!jire Jolk-IorB lonrnaL
Burning a Woman to Death.— The GENERAL GAOL DE-
LIVERY of our Lord the King, of his County of York, held at
the Castle of York, 9 March, 16 Geo. III. [1775] before Sir
Henry Gould, Knight, John Aspinal, Esq., &c, Giles Earle,
Esq., High Sheriff.
Elizabeth Boardtngham, late wife of John Boardinghaxn, guilty
Petty Treason. To be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of
execution on Wednesday next, the 20th day of this instant
March, and there to be burned with fire until dead.*
Thomas Aikney, Guilty Murder. To be hanged on Wednesday
next, 20 March, and his body to be afterwards dissected and
anatomized.
Rtbcrt Iredale, Guilty High Treason in having in his dwelling
house a dye for coining a guinea. To be drawn on a hurdle to
the place of execution, and there hanged.
William Allison, Stealing a bill of exchange out of a post
letter. To be hanged.
John Whiteley, Edward Wilson, Horse Stealing. Reprieved.
James Lawton, Benjamin Collitt, John Smith, Sheep Stealing.
Reprieved.
John Changer, Grand Larceny. Reprieved.
Lawrence Hartley, Manslaughter. Burnt in the hand and
imprisoned a year in York Castle.
William Fawcett, Grand Larceny. Burnt in the hand, and
imprisoned, with hard labour, a year in Wakefield Gaol.
Elizabeth Harrison, William Clark, Grand Larceny. Burnt in
the hand, and imprisoned in Wakefield Gaol, the House of
Correction, for 9 months.
William Smith, William Todd, Isaac Thompson, John Muers,
Grand Larceny, Burnt in hand and imprisoned 6 months in
Thirsk Gaol. Ac. &c.
Fletcher Riooe, Clerk of the Assizes.
The above is copied from a printed folio page, addressed to
Mr. Waugh, Keeper of the House of Correction, who held the
post from 1766 to 1794, when his son Benjamin W. succeeded.
Crime. — The following particulars are taken from a 4to pam-
phlet, 4 pages, two being blank ; E. Waller, printer, Wakefield*
A Comparative Statement of the Number of Criminal Of*
fenders committed to the several gaols in England and Wales,
* The last case of burning to death probably.
Y.K.Q. B
2 Y0RK8HIRE N0TE8 AND QUERIES.
for Trial in the years 1805 and 1806, together with their Crimes,
Sentences, &c.
Committed— Males 8267 (1805) 8120 (1806).
Females 1888 „ 1226 „
Cnnuis. 1805. 1606.
Sedition ... ... ... ... 4 0
Murder ... ... ... ... 26 24
Females, (infant murders) ... ... 27 86
Manslaughter ... ... ... ... 66 67
Cutting and Maiming ... ... ... 21 8
Shooting at persons ... ... ... 14 7
mHoOY ... ... ... ... ... / v
Sodomy and unnatural crimes ... ... 15 42
Obtaining property by threatening to charge the ) 0 2
persons with unnatural crime ... ... j
x»ape ... ... ... ... ... oo 4o
Coining ... ... ... ... 15 10
Uttering bad money ... ... ... 108 84
Forgery ... ... ... ... 86 84
„ Bank Notes ... ... ... 28 15
Personating Seamen to get Prize Money ... 0 8
Arson ... ... ... ... ... 18 7
Burglary ... ... ... ... 186 124
Highway Robbery ... ... ... 68 52
Stealing Horses... ... ... ... 65 58
Stealing Sheep ... ... ... ... 71 60
Stealing Cows, Pigs, &c. ... ... ... 88 49
Larceny ... ... ... ... 8555 8866
Receiving Stolen Goods ... ... ... 187 110
Fraud ... ... ... ... ... 94 94
Bigamy ... ... ... ... 28 22
Returning from Transportation ... ... 15 11
4605 4846
Sentences. 1805. 1806.
Death [see under Executed.— Ed.] ... ... 850 825
Transportation, 14 years ... ... ... 34 26
7 years... ... ... 661 496
Imprisoned, (whipped, pilloried,) 4 years ... 1 0
„ „ ,, 8 years ... 4 4
„ t „ „ 2 years ... 128 100
„ „ ,, 6 months to 1 year 888 294
„ ,, „ 6 m. and under 1219 1158
Whipping and Fine ... ... ... 105 81
Acquitted ... ... ... ... 1092 1065
Discharged, No Bill ... 780 766
„ to Berve in Army or Navy ... 58 81
Executed: ... ... ... ... 68 57
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
8
Male Fern. Male Fern.
Murder
•••
•••
5
8
5
0
„ of Infants
...
...
0
2
0
0
Cutting, Maiming
...
. ••
1
0
2
0
Shooting at Persons
...
...
1
0
8
0
Sodomy
...
...
0
0
6
0
Bape ...
...
...
0
0
2
0
Obtaining property by threatening a \
0
0
2
0
charge of Sodomy
...
... )
Forgery
...
...
6
0
11
0
„ Bank Notes
...
...
6
1
0
0
Personating Seamen for Prize Money
0
0
2
0
Coining
...
...
8
0
8
1
Arson ...
...
...
2
0
0
0
Burglary
...
...
15
0
6
0
Stealing in House
...
••»
8
0
1
1
Hignway Robbery
..-
...
4
0
8
0
Horse Stealing ...
...
...
7
0
4
0
Sheep ,,
...
...
5
0
8
0
Cattle ,,
...
...
0
0
1
0
Returning from Trax
isportation
Jounty —
0
0
1
0
68
57
Committed in each C
Yorkshire 1805, 181 males,
64 females.
»»
1806, 159
ft
54
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An Account* of the Number of Broad Cloths, Milled at
the several Fulling Mills in the West-Riding of the County of
York, from the 24th of June, 1725, (the Commencement of the
Act) to the 12th of March, 1726, and thence annually, distin-
guishing each year; and of the Narrow Cloths, from the 1st of
August, 1787, (the Commencement of the Act) to the 20th of
January, 1788, and thence annually, distinguishing each year ;
likewise the Number of Yards in Lbngth, made each year, from
Easter Sessions, 1768.
Years.
Broads. Narrows.
Years.
Broads.
Narrows.
1726
26671
1748
60765
68080
7
28990
9
60705}
68889
8
25228}
1750
60447}
78115
9
29648
♦ 1
60964
74022
1780
81579}
2
60724
72442
1
85568
8
55858
71618
2
35548*
4
56070}
72894
8
84620
5
57125
76295
4
81128
6
88590}
79818
6
81744}
7
55777}
77097
* From effects of John Armytage, Esq., J. P., (died 24 May, 1886).
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Years.
Broads.
Narrows.
Years. Broads. Narrows
1786
88899
1758 60396 66396
7
42256
9 51877$ 65518
8
42404
14494
1760 49362} 69578
9
48086}
58848
1 48944 75469
1740
41441
58620
2 48621 72946
1
46864
61196
8 48088} 72096
2
44954
62804
4 54916 79458
8
45178J
63545
5 54660 77419
4
54627}
68065
6 72575J 78898
5
50458
68428
7 102428 78819
6
56687
68775
8 90036 74480
7
62480
68874
Broads.
Narrows.
Pieces.
Yards.
Pieces.
Yards.
1769
92522
2771667*
87762
2144019
1770
98075
2717105
85876
2255625
1
92782
2966224}
89920
2285625
2
112870
8228918*
95589
2377517}
8
120245
3635612}
89874}
2306235
4
87201
2587864*
88823
2183588
5
95878
2841213
96794
2441007
6
99783
2975889
99586
2488140}
7
107750
8158891
95786
2601583
8
182506
8795990
101629
2746712
9
110942
8427150
93143
2659650
1780
94625
2802671
87809
2571324
1
102018
8099127
98721
2671397
2
112470
4453405
97748
2598751
8
131092
4568876
108641
8292002
4
188028
4094885
115500
8356648
5
157275
4844855
116086
3409278
6
158792
4934975
123025
8586889
7
155748
4850882
128740
4058157
8
189406
4244822
182148
4248308
9
154184
4716460
145495
4409978
1790
172588
5151677
140407
4582122
1
187569
5815079
154878
4797594
2
214851
6760728
190468
5531698
8
190882
6054946
150666
4788722
4
190988
6067208
130403
4684258
5
250993
7759907
155087
5172511
6
246770
7880536
152594
5246704
7
229292
7285088
156709
6508648
8
224159
7134144
148566
5180813
9
272755
8806688
180168
6877277
1800
285851
9268966
169262
6014420
1
264082
8699242
187281
4888584
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
Broads.
Pieces. Yards.
Narrows.
Pieces. Yards.
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1810
1
2
8
265660
266785
298178
800287
290269
262024
279859
311289
273664
269892
816481
869890
8686046
8942798
9987255
10079256
9561178
8422143
9050970
9826048
8671042
8585559
9949419
11702887
187016
189575
150010
165847
175834
161816
144622
151911
158252
141809
136863
142863
5028754
5023996
5440179
6193317
6480101
5931253
5809007
5951762
6180811
5715534
5117209
6615755
From 1814 to 1885 are left blank, so the folio sheet was
evidently printed in 1814.
o
Wakefield Prison. — The exact date at which this Prison was
built is not known, but it is clear that there was no Prison at
Wakefield before the year 1595 from the following extract from
the Will, dated 16th December, 1594, of Mr. George Savil, of
Wakefield, which was proved at York, on the 17th February in
the following year (viz., 1595) — " Also I give twentie poundes
"for and towardes the Buildinge of an House of Correction
" within Seaven Miles of Wakefield, for the settinge of the poore
" on worke or towardes a starte for the Keepinge of them in
" worke accordinge to the statute, if so be there be any such
" house builded within the space of two yeres next after my de-
" cease, and if there be not, then this bequest utterlie to be void."
In 1597, by the Act 89 Elizabeth, cap. 4 and 5, Justices of
the Peace were required to provide Houses of Correction in the
districts within their Jurisdiction, and it is probable that the
erection of the Prison was commenced about this time, as we
find in Whitaker's " Loidis et Elmete," page 228, that on the
examination, before Sir John Saville, of Walter Calverley, of
Calverley, on the 24th April, 1605, for the murder of his two
sons, " he was committed to one ' Maister Key's House,' a gaile
but lately built up in Wakefield, for at this time the infection
of the plague was violent in Yorke." It may fairly be presumed
from Whitaker's note above quoted, that " Master Key " was
the first Governor of the Prison. When he resigned, it is not
known, but we find that at the Quarter Sessions held in April,
1641, Thomas Somester, who was then upwards of 80 years of
age, resigned his office as Governor, and it is evident from the
wording of the record of his resignation, that he had held his
office for a considerable period ; it may therefore be assumed that
he was the immediate successor of " Maister Key.*' From this
time onward we have a complete list of the several Governors.
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1766 ; Wakefield Prison
ordered to be rebuilt at
Mids'mer Sessions, 1766
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8 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The Act, 4 Geo. IV., cap. 64, which came into operation on
the 1st September, 1828, required that two or more Justices
should be appointed to each Gaol.
Accordingly on the 11th December, 1828, at Wakefield
Sessions, three Magistrates were appointed, and as the Prison
increased in importance, the number of Visiting Justices was
from time to time increased, until at the present they are
thirty-seven in number.
By the passing of the Prison Act, 40 and 41 Vic, cap. 21,
which came into force on the 1st April, 1878, the authority of
the Magistrates, which had existed for more than 270 years
over this Prison, was vested in the Prison Commissioners, and
the entire expenses of the Prison became chargeable upon Her
Majesty's Treasury.
Complete List of Visiting Justices of the West Biding Prison
sinoe the first appointment under 4 George IV., Cap. 64, to
1878, when the duties of Visiting Justices ceased.
xr A U1? Date of appointment as
JNAMJ!j- Visiting Justice.
John Pemberton Hey wood 11th December, 1828
Benjamin Dealtry do.
Bev. William Wood do.
John Egremont 8rd June, 1824
Joseph Scott (of Badsworth) 16th November, 1825
John Plumbe Tempest 28rd August, 1827
Daniel Gaskell ... 26th November, 1829
John Army t age... 1st December, 1881
Sir John Lister L. Eaye do.
Godfrey Wentworth do.
Charles John Brandling do.
Joseph Holdsworth 16th May, 1888; appoin-
ted Chairman, 1887
Joshua Ingham (Blake Hall) 7th February, 1888
Bev. Theophilus Barnes (Vicar of
Castleford) 1st September, 1885
Charles Winn 7th June, 1886
Thomas Wheatley do.
Christopher Beckett 7th March, 1887
John Blaydes (Oulton Hall) grandfather
of John Calverley, of Oulton Hall do.
W. Bookes Crompton Stansfield ... do.
George Banks do.
Francis Maude 12th September, 1888
John George Smyth 12th December, 1888;
appointed Chairman,
February, 1866
Bichard Kennet Dawson 19th February, 1840
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
John Francis Carr
William Hepworth
Thomas Hague ...
Edward Tew ...
Rev. Edward Hawke Brooksbank
John Walbanke Childers
Richard Heber Wrightson
Rowland Winn
Rev. James Armytage Rhodes
Henry Wickham Wickham ...
Thomas Horncastle Marshall...
John Rhodes Ralph
George Thomas Pollard
Rt. Hon. Lord Wharncliffe (2nd Lord)
Richard Monckton Milnes
William John fiagshaw
Wilson Overend
John Waterhouse
John Grossley
Henry Edwards
John CalverJey
Edward B. Wheatley Balme ...
Samnel Waterhouse
John Beswicke Greenwood
John Mason Hepworth
John Brooke
William Henry Leathern
John Barff
John C. D. Gharlesworth
Edward Akroyd
Thomas Foljambe
Right Hon. John Parker
Thomas Holy Holds worth
Edmund John Winn
The Hon. Henry Constable Maxwell
Francis Darwin
Frank Wormald
The Hon. George Edwin Lascelles
The Hon. W. G. Eden
Daniel Burton Eendell
George Armitage
Thomas William Tew
Ayscough Fawkes
John Lister
Walter Spencer-Stanhope
10th June, 1840
do.
do.
10th June, 1840; ap-
pointed Chairman,
15th January, 1857
9th June, 1841
14th December, 1848
do.
do.
18th February, 1845
do.
do.
11th February, 1847
do.
do.
10th May, 1850
21st August, 1850
do.
21st November, 1850
19th February, 1851
do.
12th May, 1852
22nd February, 1855
do.
22nd November, 1855
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
21st February, 1856
20th November, 1856
do.
20th August, 1857
24th May, 1860
16th May, 1861
25th February, 1862
15th May, 1862
do.
21st August, 1862
19th February, 1868
19th November, 1868
do.
do.
18th August, 1864
17th November, 1864 ;
appointed Chairman,
21st April, 1869
10 YORK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Frederick Bacon Frank 18th May, 1865
Alfred Harris 1st February, 1866
Wright Mellor do.
The Hon. F. Stuart Wortley do.
Went worth Blaokett Beaumont ... 81st December, 1866
Thomas Brooke 21st November, 1867
William Fison do.
Henry Otter 4th January, 1869
William Carr .. do.
Francis Frederick Whitehead 8rd January, 1870
William Pollard do.
Lewis Bandle Starkey do.
William Aldam... " 2nd January, 1871
William Bothwell 1st January, 1872
Percy Tew 80th December, 1872
William Overend, Q.G. do.
Bev. Henry Bowen Cooke 5th April, 1875
Bobert Bownas Mackie 8rd January, 1876
Francis Sharp Powell do.
These particulars are kindly furnished by Captain Armytage,
who has aooumulated most valuable materials for a History off
Wakefield Prison, 1599-1881, and we are persuaded that the
publio will most gratefully receive this interesting addition to
our County History.
o
HUDDERSFIELD YkOMANBY CaVALBY AND TH« OlTVKH-ITIB.—
[From papers of John Armytage, Esq., eldest son of Sir George
Armytage of Kirklees, who died May 24, 1886.]
Milton, March 18, 1817.
Sir,
Having received this morning a letter from Ld. Sidmouth,
I transmit a copy, trusting that no time will be lost in putting
into activity the Corps, now accepted by the Prince Begent.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Wkntwobth Fitzwillum.
B. Haioh Allen, Esq.
[Mr. Haigh Allen is well-known as the founder of Trinity
Church, Huddersfield.]
Articles of Enrolment for the proposed Huddersfield Corps
of Yeomanry :
We whose names are hereunto subscribed, in pursuance of
an Act of Parliament 42 Geo. III. c. 66, entitled " An Act to
enable his Majesty to avail himself of the Offers of certain
Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps to continue their services," do
voluntarily enrol ourselves to form a corps of Cavalry, to be
called the Huddersfield Corps of Yeomanry for tbe internal
defence and security of the kingdom on the following conditions:
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 11
1. To receive no pay unless when embodied, or called out,
but to attend, mounted on serviceable horses not less than 14£
hands high, &c.
2. Such times and places of exercise to be fixed as may least
interfere with the other employments of the persons composing
the troops.
8. The Corps to be subject to be embodied within the Biding,
or neighbouring Counties, by special direction from his Majesty
for the suppression of Riots and Tumults, &c.
4. To be liable to be called upon by his Majesty, or by the
Lord Lieutenant, or by any other one Magistrate of the Biding,
or by the Sheriff, for the suppression of any Riots or Tumults
within the Biding.
5. To receive pay as Light Dragoons when thus serving, and
be subject to military discipline.
6. On exercise days to wear proper uniform, clothing, accou-
trements, cloaks, saddles, and bridles, at each individual's
expense, or aided by local subscription or government allowance.
7. The Arms provided by government, to be ready, cleaned,
&c, on exercise days.
8. Officers to receive Commissions from his Majesty or the
Lord Lieutenant.
March 4, 1817.
Subscriptions in support of the Huddersfield Yeomanry Corps.
John Lister Kaye ... £60 Will. Irving ... £10
John Beaumont ... £50 Joseph Atkinson £10
B. Haigh Allen ... £80 T. Bentley £10
John Whitaore ... £80 Thos. Allen ... £20
General Bernard ... £20 Joseph Armitage £20
John Armytage ... £20 Henry Nelson ... £10
W. W. Stables ... £20 Jno. Brooke ... £10
John Horsfall £20 W. B. Dobson ... £10
JohnTuite £10 Senior & Beaumont £10 10s
John Sutclifte £10 John Dyson ... £10
William Brooke ... £80 H. Stables £10
Whitehall, 12 March, 1817.
My Lord,
I have laid before the Prince Begent your Lordship's letter
of the 11th inst. containing a proposal for forming a Troop of
Yeomanry Cavalry of Sixty Privates in Huddersfield and its
neighbourhood ; and I have the satisfaction to acquaint your
Lordship that his Royal Highness, in the name and in the
behalf of his Majesty, is graciously pleased to approve thereof
subject to the provisions of the Volunteer Act. His Boyal
Highness's pleasure with respect to the Gentleman recommen-
ded by your Lordship for the command of this Troop, as also
12 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
to your recommendation of a Lieutenant in the Northern Regi-
ment will be signified to your Lordship in a separate letter.
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
Sidmouth.
The Earl Fitzwilliam.
At a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Huddersfield and
its vicinity, held by adjournment at the George Inn, on Mon-
day, March 81, 1817, John Horsfall, Esq., in the Chair,
Resolved — That under the present alarming circumstances
of the Country, the services of the Yeomanry Cavalry have been
of most essential service in preserving the tranquility of this
town and neighbourhood.
That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Officers and
Privates of the Cavalry for their Services, and that they be
requested to continue the same for two nights longer, and that
the Chairman be requested to acquaint John Armytage, Esq.,
Captain of the Troop, with these resolutions.
Milton, April 6, 1817.
Sir,
I have great satisfaction in receiving your letter of ye 1st
inst. The alacrity with which the principal gentlemen and
merchants of the neighbourhood have completed the Corps, is
demonstrative of their proper feeling, and of this right and just
way of thinking — that if the circumstances of the times require
more than ordinary preparations for maintaining tranquility in
any particular district, such district should itself provide for
that security, and should not call upon the exertions of others
in their defence. I cannot applaud more than its merits, the
zeal with which you and the corps, watch'd over the safety of
the town and neighbourhood of Huddersfield on ye 80 March.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Wentworth Fitzwilliam.
Capt. Armytage,
Huddersfield Yeomanry.
Head Quarters, Pontefract, April 5th, 1817.
My dear Sir,
I have great pleasure in forwarding to you the annexed
copy of part of a letter I received this morning from Lord
Sidmouth as applying to your Corps, whose prompt disposition
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 18
to render themselves of service I think highly deserving of the
merit he attributes to them,
I have the honor to be, mj dear Sir,
Yery faithfully yours,
J. Byno, M: G:
Huddersfield, June 28, 1817.
Dear Sir,
Accept our thanks for the very important services rendered
by yourself and by the Corps under your command. We feel
very sorry to be obliged still further to trespass upon your
time, but from the unsettled state of the neighbourhood, and
the number of prisoners still in oustody, we think that we
should not be justified were we not to request that you will
keep twelve men on permanent duty until Saturday, the 28th
instant.
We have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your very obedient servants,
Jo. Haigh,
To Capt. Abhytage. B. Haigh Allen.
My Lord,
Inolosed herewith is a list of the names of the Noncom-
missioned Officers, Trumpeter and Privates of the Huddersfield
Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry under my command. . . . state
to your Lordship my Company will complete its establishment
in a month as I am now wanting only eleven. I mention this
for your Lordship's consideration, whether you will at once
cause the allowance for the whole establishment to be paid now
or an amended list will be required. May I at the same time
beg your Lordship's instructions as to the pouches and belts
which are the only articles now wanting.
Huddersfield, 15 May, 1817.
David Alexander,* Jno. Allen, Jno. Jessop, Chas. Brook,
Josh. Brook, E. F. Roberts, Wm. Shaw, Geo. Marriott, Thos.
Btarkey, Jas. , George Burn(ley), Alex. Mabon, Geo. Cal-
vert, Jas. Hinchliffe, J. D. Whitehead, Jno. Peace, Thos.
Dinsley, Wm. Wigney, Jno. Allison, Henry Booth, Jas. Phillips,
Samuel Taylor, Jno. Hinchliffe, Jas. Halliley, Richd. Clay,
Jas. Tavernor, Jno. Little(wood), Thos. Haigh, Willm. Bates,
Jno. Rowland, Saml. Brook, Saml. Roberts, Geo. Moorhouse,
Wm. W. Battye, Robert Knight, Hirst, Geo. Robinson,
Jas. C. Fenton, Henry Alexander, Jno. Swift, Josh. Kaye, Josh.
Charlesworth, Thos. Farrar, Jas. Greaves, Edwd. Hardy, Jno.
Newhouse, Edwd. Riley, Thos. Robinson, Edwd. Lees, Jno.
Whitehead, Benjn. Buckley, Abraham Rhodes, Jno. Burnley.
* His horse was shot (Annals Yorks. 18170
14 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Dear Sir,
In consequence of the disturbance of last night we are very
glad to avail ourselves of the patriotic offer made by the Corps
under your command. We request that you will continue them
upon permanent service until Monday the 16th instant, for the
preservation of the Peace of this town and neighbourhood.
We have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient servants,
Jo. Haigh,
B. Haigh Allen.*
Huddersfield, June 9, 1817.
To Capt, Abmytage, Hudd. Yeo. Cav.
On the 16th they ask for a third part of the Troop to remain
on duty for another week.
Wentworth, June 20, 1817.
Dear Sir,
The service that in the course of the last fortnight, you
and your troop have rendered to the country, calls for the
gratitude of all, who are attached to our constitutional estab-
lishments, and feel an interest in preserving the present order
of things. Notwithstanding the readiness you have all evinoed
to devote your time to that important purpose, still it ought to
be in the consideration of others, how great are the sacrifices
you make for the safety of your fellow-subjeete. Appearances
being now so favourable, I trust one may with confidence rely
that after the termination of the present week the Magistrates
will not see any further occasion for the continuance of your
service. Whenever you withdraw from permanent duty, it will
be necessary to make out a regular return of the number winch
were each day on duty, which if forwarded to me, I will take
care to transmit to the Secretary of State, for the purpose of
obtaining pay and allowances.
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Wentworth Fitzwillum.
Capt. Com. Abmttagk.
Milton, June 28, 1817.
Sir,
I have great satisfaction in transmitting an extract from a
letter I received this morning from Lord Sidmouth.
[Thanks of the Government.]
Your most obedient servant,
Wbntwobth Fitzwillum.
[Printed Circular.] Sir, The Magistrates of this Town being
aware of the valuable time you have given up, (from the 8th
• Magistrates of Huddersfield.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 15
instant to this day) in the performance of those duties they
required of yon for the public good, and which you have so ably
and so handsomely performed, are unwilling to trespass any
longer on that time which your other private duties so much
demand
I have the honor to be your faithful and obliged,
J. Abmytagb,
Captain Commandant.
Huddersfield, June 28, 1817.
P.S. — Drill as usual on Monday, July 7, 4 p.m.
[" Whiteley of Holmfirth is taken and sent to London this
morning," written on the back.]
Huddersfield Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry to assemble on the
6th of May, 1818, and to march from thence to York for train-
ing and exercise during six days. Present state : — 2 Captains,
1 Lieut., 1 Cornet. Non-com: — Qr. Master, 8 Sergeants, 8
Corporals, Trumpeter, 50 Privates.
[Four extra days were allowed for marching to and from York.]
Letter from Gen. Sir John Byng, Head Quarters, Pontefract
May 7, 1818, regretting his inability to review the troops him-
self at York.
List of those on duty May 6-14th.— Capt. Armytage, Lieut.
Atkinson. Cornet Dobson. Sergts. Brook, Jessop, Whitehead.
Corpls. Shires, Shaw. Trumpeter Radoliffe. Privates — D.
Alexander, H. Alexander, Allison, Booth, Battye, Blackstock,
Beatson, Calvert, Clay, Dinsley, Fenton, Farrer, Greaves, Eaye,
Marriott, Mabon, Newhouse, Peace, Roberts, Bhodes, Starkey,
Swift, Wigney, Jno. Hincliffe, Jas. Taylor, Jno. Littlewood.
[All the items of the foregoing pages have been kindly con-
tributed by Capt. G. Armytage.]
Yorkshire Militia. — I have a coloured plate of " A Grand
Review on Heath Common, near Wakefield, of the Gentlemen
Volunteers of Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, Wakefield and Hudders-
field, as commanded by Lieut.-Col. Lloyd, and reviewed by
Lieut. -Gen. Scott on the 4th of August, 1796." "Dedicated
by permission to Lt.-Col. Lloyd and the Commanding Officers
of the respective Corps by their obliged, humble servant — John
Hopkins." I believe Sir George Armytage, Bart., commanded
the Huddersfield Corps, and Col. Horton the Halifax Corps.
The colours of each corns are now at Eirklees and Howroyd
Halls respectively. This is probably the Corps referred to by
W. A. T. (VoL I. p. 285). Of the present 6th West York
Militia, whose head quarters are at Halifax, Capt. Godfrey
Armytage was appointed Adjutant of the Regiment in October,
1858. There was no Militia Regiment at Halifax before that
date.
16 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
A Description of the Envibons of Ingleborouoh and prin-
cipal places on the banks of the River Wenning, attempted by
Thomas Dixon, of Bentham, formerly belonging to the Royal
Regiment of Horse Guards.
[The MS. Scrap book, in which this is written, bears the
autographs of Thomas Dixon Jackson, Surgeon, Slaidburn,
Joseph Willis, Slaidburn, 1842, and Dr. Robert Clark.]
To Abram Rawlingson, Esq., M.P. for Lancaster, the follow-
ing attempt to describe Ingleborough is humbly inscribed by
his much obliged and most obedient servant— Thomas Dixon.
A Description of the Environs of Ingleborough, Ac.
The dew clad grass untraced the sky was clear
No drunkard's oaths as yet had stain'd the air.
The rising sun gleam'd through the dappled grey
Serene the morn, the first of blooming May.
The Vale of Wenning I resolved to tread
And trace the radiant rambler to its head ;
Determin'd Ingleborough' 8 Mount to climb,
And what I saw reoite in homely rhyme.
From traokless wilds emerg'd my wondering eyes
View'd the flat top, approaching to the skies.
Immense the prospect, keen the nipping air,
The sun clear shining and the weather fair.
The verge with rapture I survey'd around
Imagination term'd it fairy ground.
Push'd from this height the rock impetuous leaps
With horrid crash, down miles of dreadful steeps.
The wind then turning south, breath'd soft and mild,
The friendly Genius of the mountain smil'd.
The distant groves with pleasure I survey'd
And widespread plains that far below me laid,
Here plats of ling, there weather-beaten rocks,
Here moor-game haunt, and there the wily fox.
An hundred hills are from this mountain seen
As many vales that lie those hills between.
Longridge and Pendle, superstition's haunt*
Whernside and Cam, and lofty Penegent,
Blackcolm,\ dread mountain, at vast distance seen
And three wide shining sands that lie between.
Hardknot and Wrynoae, two bleak snow-crowned hills
Skirted with horrid rocks and dreadful gills.
Leeks fell and Gragareth for their caverns fam'd.
And Kingsdale from its royal lords so named.
Far from the house of man, on a bleak wild,
Where hills on hills above the clouds are pil'd
• Evidently witchcraft is in the writer's mind,
t Beyond Fairness, near the coast.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 17
Lies this green Tale, where thousands daily graze
High rooks hang o'er, and thro', a river strays,
Wheels and returns, winds off with many a round
And wanders twenty miles in one of ground. (?)
A striking object — Yordas Cave— is seen,
With awful entrance, and a spouting stream ;
Here gloomy darkness reigns in sullen pride
With blabbing echo seated by her side ;
Long hollow groans were heard with mournful sighs
To issue hence, if legends are not lies.
Near which are seen the clefts of Gingling Cove,
Its form and depth the curious ne'er could prove ;
The falling stones from rock to rock rebound
The dark abyss returns a tinkling sound.
The Routing Chasm amazing to behold
With dreadful groan intimidates the bold,
The depth unknown, vast, dismal, dark and wide
With rugged pointed rocks on every side ;
A rapid stream falls in with hideous roar,
Growls thro' the mountain to some distant shore ;
Dismay arises to the man that ventures near,
His face turns pale, his courage yields to fear.
See stately Lune sweep down the verdant vale
[Burrow Hall, Thurland Castle, TunstaL]
I quit the summit to find Wenning's spring,
Explore its course, its beauteous windings sing ;
Adown the eastern side flows many a rill
Which pour thro mossy wilds to Glapdale's gill,
Add to the force with which he bursts away
Thro' pits o'erhung by woods, where hid from day,
With solemn roar, resistless, on he drives,
Drops down a pitfall, thro' a mountain drives
Breaks out again, from rock to rock he foams
With headlong rapid rage to Clapham roams.
Here simple village swains long stories tell
Of fairy gambols round the Lady's Well.
This charming villa equally divides,
Now murmuring down the vale, to Swinhouse glides.
From Austwick flows a silver colour'd stream,
United here, here Wenning takes its name.
This gulph profound the sullen otter haunts,
The silent finny tribe supply his wants.
Thro' spacious fields which, in the month of May
With cowslips sweet are deckt, he makes his way
Y.N.Q. o
18
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
To Wenning Hippim* where a verdant plain
Is beautified by GorreVs sacred fane,
[Bentham, Upper and Lower, Wenning Church, where the
writer's parents were interred, Tatham Church, Hornby Castle.]
Total, about 180 lines.
lolling tall, Ilkleg.
The true copies of certeyne interrogatories and depositions
of John Langfellowe, producte and sworne before the Lord
President and Counceli, established in the North parts and
Holling Hall,
examined before Thomas Hardwicke, gent., one of the Exam-
iners there, on the part and behalf of our Souveigne ladie the
Queene, in an informacion exhibited upon the Relation of
Thomas Mawde, against the said John Langfellowe himself
Defendant, as followeth :
Ebor undecimo Junij Anno Regni Regine Elizabeth® xxxiij*
Interbooatories to be ministred on Her Majestie's behalfe
to John Langfellowe, Defendant, touching the matters conteyned
in one informacon, exhibited to Her Majestie and Her Honor-
able Counceli in the North, by William Payler, Esquire, Her
Majestie's Attorney in the said North, upon the relation of
Thomas Mawde, against the said John Langfellowe, Defendant
To the FiR8T whether do you know the said Relator and De-
fendant ? And doe alsoe knowe the said seurall mannors or
• Stepping-stones, whereby to cross the stream.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE JOUENAL. 19
lordships of Hkeley and Hollinghall, with the seurall mores
waists and appurtenncs to the said seurall mannors seurallie
belonginge, or no.
(2) Item what mores commons or waists do you certeynelie
know do certeyne belong and apperteyne to the said mannor of
Hollinghall, and how and in what manner, and by what metts
and bounders are the same devided and knowne from the other
Mannors or Lordshipp6 to them next adioyninge.
(8. 4.) Item what moores commons or waists are certeynelie
belonginge to the said Mannor or Lordshipp of Ilkley, with th
appurten'nce, and how and in what manner and by what
certeyne metts and bounders are the same certeynelie knowne
from the mores, commons and waists of the said Mannor of
Hollinghall, and what be the names of the said bounders, and
how know you the same Item how and in what manner and by
what certeyne knowne bounders, names and marks are the
said seurall mannors and the seurall moores, commons or
waists thereof, certeinlie and seu'allie knowne boundered and
seuered thone from the other And how know you the same
And what be the names of the said bounders and how know
you the same.
(5) Item whether is there a mannor of Hollinghall called
Hollinghall or no, and how know you the same.
(6) Item whether is and tyme out of minde of man hath
the said percell of inclosed ground in the information men-
tioned bene called and knowne by the name of the Oxeclose or
Intacke of Hollinghall ever since the enclosure thereof or noe.
(7) Item whether was the said inclosed ground in the In-
formation named taken up and improued from the moore and
wastes belonginge and percell of the said Mannor or Lordshipp
of Hollinghall or not.
(8) Item whether hath the said enclosed ground euer since
the enclosure thereof and before the enclosure thereof tyme out
of minde of man beene commonly reputed, taken, occupied,
and enioyed as parte and percell of the said Mannor of Holl-
inghall and also hath beene parte and percell thereof or noe.
(9) Item by whom was the said ground in variance enclosed
and taken up of and from the said waiste, or com'on of Holl-
inghall and what was his or their name or names that did so
enclose the same and how longe is it since.
(10) Item whether at and before the time of the said en-
closure makeinge was the said Sir Godfrey Ffoliambe Knight
deceased lawfully seized in his demeane as of ffee of the said
Mannor or Lordshipp of Hollinghall and of the waiste there-
vnto belonginge with the appurten'ncs or no.
(11) Item whether was the said enclosure made and taken
up by the lycence and appointment of the said Sir Godfrey
Ffoliambe as p'rcell of the waistes of the said Mannor of
20 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Hollinghall and not by the license of the said ffrancis Mearinge
or no.
(12) Item if the said ffrancis Mearinge gaue any license for
makeinge of the said enclosure to whom gaue he such license
and when and where was the said license giuen And how long
is it since and whether was the same license giuen by him by
word or by writing And whether did you* heare or know of
the same license giueinge and where and in whose presence
was the same license giuen.
(18) Item whether at any time of the said enclosure were
you tennant vnto the said ffrancis Meareinge or no ? If you
were then whereof were you then tennant. And whether then
did you cutt down any wood in the said ground enclosed and
converted the same to your ownerse as tennant of the said
meareinge or no And what other tennant of the said meare-
inge did then cut and take to his or their vse or vses any wood
in the said grounds and what was their name or names.
(14) Item whether was James Langfellow your late father
sole ten'nt and occupier of the tenemt whioh you now occupie
at the time of the said enclosure vnder the said mearinge and
before that time and after dureing his life being for the space
of twenty yeares after or thereabouts or no.
(15) Item whether after the decease of the said James your
father was your late mother placed tennant of the same tenemt
which you now occupy or no, and whether was she sole tennant
and occupier thereof so long as she lined or no.
(16) Item whether was your said father and mother both
dead before such time as you were placed tennant of the tenemt
wch you nowe occupie or no, or if you had any occupation of
the premisses in either of their life tymes whether was the
same in their or those of their rights or no : And when dyed
your father and when dyed your mother and how longe is it
since the seu'all times of their deathes.
(17) Item whether do you know one gill, brook or rundell
of water or a place wherein water runs in wynter tyme com-
'only called and knowne by the name of Nichollriddlngill als.
Bigallriddingill or no.
(18. 19) Item whether doth the said gill, brook or rundle
run and extende between the said Lordshipp of Hollinghall
and Ilkley and doth devide thone Lordshipp from thother for a
certeyne space or no And how far doth the same becke or
rundle devyde the same
Item whether hath the said beck or rundle been time out of
minde of man a knowne bounder to devyde the said Lordshipp
as far as the same runneth betwixt them or no and how tar
doth it run betwixt them.
* Query — When did you first appear instead of thou 1
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 21
(20) Item whether doth all the grounds called the Westwood
of Ilkeley als. the new close lye ouer the one side of the said
becke or rundle and on the west side of th said brooke or no
And which be all the grounds called the Westwood.
(21) Item whether time out of minde of man hath, all the
groundes moores and waists lyinge and adioyninge on the West
side of the said rundle or brooke by what name or names so-
ener they be called been parte and percell of the said Mannor
or Lordshipp of Hollinghall or no.
(22. 28) Item whether do you know certeyne enclosed
groundes lying and adioining on the East side of the said becke
or rundle within the Lordshipp of Ilkeley now or late in the
tenures or occupacion of one James Sheaffeild late deceased
John Rossendale late deceased William Ian son and others
which were heretofore ymproved and taken up of and from the
mores or wastes of Ilkeley or no.
Item when were the same last mentioned grounds so im-
proved and how longe is it since and how many be there of the
said seural inclosure so ymproved on the east side of the said
rundle.
(24) Item whether at and before the time of the said seurall
inclosures makeing on the ea6t side of the said rundle or beck
or most part were all of the said grounds so there ymproved
into the said seuall inclosures a very woody and bushey ground
growing full of hollings, thornes, and other woode or no.
(25) Item whether was all the said last mencioned grounds
so ymproved as aforesaid or any of them being wodd ground
vntil the same were enclosed as aforesaid And untill the in-
closures thereof made com'onlie gen'allie, and certeynelie called
and knowne by the name of the Westwodd of Hkley or no.
(26) Item whether before the time of the said last mencioned
inclosures makeing on the east side of the said rundle did you
knowe any grounds saueing them soe last mencioned to be
then called or knowne by the name of the Westwoodd of Ilkley
or no, And if yes then what grounds were the same
(27) Item whether was the first menconed inclosed grounds
called the Oxeclose or Intake of 'Hollinghall before th inclosure
then called by the name of the Westwodd of Ilkley als. the
New Close or no. And if yes then how and by what meanes
and reason came the same to be so called [Oxeclose] als. the
new close the same lying open not being inclosed
(28^ Item whether were you a wittnesse of the purchase
makeing of the said Mannor of Ilkley with thapprtnncs by the
said John Middleton of the said ffrancis mearinge or no, how
long is it since And whether was the same purchase made in
the lifetime of the said James Langfellowe your late Father or
no and if yes how longe was the same before he dyed
22 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
(29) Item whether was liu'y and seizine had and made vpon
the lands so purchased or no when and where and in what
places or place was liuerie and seisine so ginen and deliu'ed
and by whom and to whom and who were wittnessee thereof
And what were their names
180) Item whether was liu'y and seisine therevpon giuen
ie in one place in the name of all the rest or els in sea'all
places or no, if onely in one place then in what place and if in
seu'all plaos then in what and how many seu'all places certey-
nely vpon your oath was the same giuen
(81. 82) Item whether did you see liuery and seizine thereof
giuen by the said mearinge to the said Middleton onelie in the
said ground in variance called the Oxe close or Intake of Hoil-
inghall in the name of all the premises purchased or no and
who were then and there present Item whether was liu'y and
seizin giu'n both in the said ground in variance and also in a
howse or tenement wherein you dwell in Ilkley or no, if it was
giuen in them both then in whether of them was liu'y and
seizine firster made
(88) Item what moved you to depose that liu'ey was giuen
in the said grounds in variance in the name of all the rest
(84) Item if liu'ey was giuen in any other place then in the
said howse then whether was the same giuen in any place or
places belonginge and percell of the said Mannor of Hollinghall
or no And if yes then certeynelie and in what place or places
was the same And what were the names of the giuers of liu'y,
to whom was it made and who were wittnesse thereof And how
longe is it since
(85) Item whether haue you since you were examined
affirmed and said as touchinge the said liu'y and seizine gineing
that you had neuer deposed that possession and seizine was
giuen any where else upon the said purchase but only in your
father's howse And that the examiners might wryte what they
woulde but else you neuer knew of liuerie makeing in any other
place but the said house or words to that effect or no
(86) Item whether did you affirme when you were going to
Yorke to be examined that you must needes say as Mr Middle-
ton your master would have you say or no
£87) Item whether since you were examined at the Assizes
before the Judges in this matter have you affirmed that you
were not well and that you should be well enough if Mr
Middleton and the Lords of Hollinghall should agree and lett
you alone or wordes to that effect or no And why doubted you
to be lette alone and what was the cause thereof, and declare
your whole knowledge.
(88) Item whether have you heretofore confessed and
affirmed upon demand thereof made that you were neuer
priuie nor had deposed of any possession or liuerie made in the
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 28
said Oxeelose or Intaoke of Hollinghall bat onely in this
manner that you and div'se tenants of Ilkley went thither with
Mr Middleton and at his eomanndemt And that Mr Middleton
alone entered the said Oxeelose or Intacke of Hollinghall and
therein digged up a peece of earth and bad you and the rest
stande of the outside to beare him wittnes he tooke seizins and
that he would stand to the dainger himselfe alone, or no.
(39) Itim whether do you know that the John Middleton
brought an accion of tresspas at the com' on lawe against the
said William Mawd and Icpofer Uawd or those of them and
that he brought the same to a nisi primo at Yorke and had
yssue therein isyued and a jurie sworne for tryall thereof And
that the same sute was quashed by reason of Sir Richard
Chomeley, Knight, then Sherif and for such other causes as
you deposed in your deposicon to the said seuenth Interrog*
atorie or no, if yes how were you priuie thereof who were
Attorneys of eyther side in the cause, what yssue was ioyned,
who were of the jurie sworne who were wittnesses in the cause,
who was Judge or Judges of the Dize how longe is it since
And whether then were you a tennant to Mr Middleton or no.
John Lanofellowe of Ilkeley in the Countie of Yorke
Husbandm' about thage of three score and ten yeares wyttnes
producte sworne and examined on the partie and behalfe of our
Sou'eigne Ladie the Queene in an informacion exhibited vpon
the relacon of Thomas Mawde against this Depont himselfe
Defendt vpon his oathe deposeth and saith
To the Fibst this Exatnt saith he doth know the relator and
the seu'all Mannors or Lordshipps of Ilkley and Hollinghall
with the mores waysts and appurtenncs to the said seu'all
mannors or lordships belonginge
To the Second he sayth that whether Hollinghall be a
Mannor or not he cannot depose howbeit he saith that for the
space of three score yeares the tennants of Hollinghall have
had bytt of mouth in all com'ons for their cattell with the
tennants of the mannor of Ilkley which com'ons and the metts
and bounders thereof shalbe sett downe in his answer to the
third and ffowerth interrogatorie.
To the third and ffowerth he saith that the bounders of
the Mannor of Ilkley are as followeth vizt beginninge at the
midl streame of the River of Wharfe at Bamskell becke end
And so up Bamskell beoke to the head of the same becke and
so on to the none stone And so to the grene ewe pike and
from thence to Buckstones as heaven water dealeth and so on
to the White Cragge as heaven water dealeth And so on the
height of the White Cragge as heaven water dealeth betweene
the Mannor of Ilkley and Bingley to the sett stone on the
White Cragge and from thence Northward to a great stone
called Langshawe Ladde And so on to another sett stone
24 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
called Stone edge and so on still Northwards to another sett
stone in William Stead's Intacke And then downe by the
East side of Gillfeild and so on by the East side of Wheatley
Wood and so downe againe to the Biuer of Wharfe which
bounders this examt hath heard accounted to be the bounders
of the Mannor of Ilkley theis three score yeares for about three
score yeares ago when this examt was a boy he rant in com-
panie with Mr Ffranncis Meareinge then Lord of Ilkley when
he walked those bounders And diu'se of the said Ffrancis
Meareinge tennants then were in companie with the said
Ffrancis Meareinge And about thirty fiue yeares agoe Mr
John Middleton did againe walke the said boundrs and about
eight yeares agoe Mr. William Middleton now Lord of Ukeley
also walked the same bounders so that he hath been three
seuerall times at the walkeing of those boundrs and as he
taketh it all the mores and waistes within the bounders afore-
said do belonge to the Mannor of Ilkley howbeit the tennants
and occupyers of Hollinghall were as free for byth of mouth
within all the mores and waists within the boundrs aforesaid
as the tennants of the Mannor of Ilkley. And saith that
Hollinghall and all the lands therevnto belonginge are within
the bounders of the Mannor of Ilkley And this depont saith
that he neuer knew any boundrs betweene the mannors of
Ilkley and Hollinghall.
To the Fifth he saith that now of late he hath hard Holling-
hall called a Lordshipp and a Mannor but whether the same
be a Mannor or not he cannot depose for he neuer knew any
Courts kept there
To the Sixt he saith that three score yeares ago the said
percell of ground in the Informacon menconed was called by
the name of the Westwood of Ilkley so it was called till about
ffifty yeares ago that the same was enclosed and euer since the
same hath beene called by the name of the Oxeclose or Intacke
of Hollinghall, or what other name they pleased.
To the Seaunth he saith that before the said ground in the
Informacon mencioned was taken up and enclosed the same
ground was vsed and occupied as com'on as well for the tenn-
ants of Ilkley as Hollinghall And so by reporte it had beene
vsed tyme out of minde of man.
To the Eight he saith that euer since the said ground was
enclosed the same was occupied and enioyed as parte and per-
cell of the Mannor or Lordshipp of Hollinghall And when this
Examt about fiftie yeares agoe went to fetch wood forth of the
said enclosed ground, one William Mawde would not suffer
this Examt to fetch any from thence for the said William
Mawde then affirmed he had enclosed the said ground by
lycense of the said Mr firanncs Mearinge.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 25
To the Ninth he saith that about ffiftie yeares ago the said
William Mawde who was Father to the Eelator did enclose the
said percell of ground.
To the Tenth he saith that he knew not Sir Godfrey Ffol-
iambe in this interrogatorie named but by reporte the said Sir
Godfrey was seized of the said Mannor or Lordship of Holling-
hall with all the appurtnncs therevnto belonginge before the
said ground was enelosed
To the Eleauenth he saith that he neu'r heard that the said
Sir Godfrey ffoliame gaue license for enclosure of the said
ground but this Examinant the Raid Wiiliam Mawde about
inftie yeares agoe affirme that he enclosed the same by the
lycense of the said ffrancis Mearinge.
To the Twelft he saith that about ffiftie yeares agoe the
said grounds was newly enclosed when this Examt was fetch-
ing a burden of wodd forth of the said enclosed ground in the
informacon menconed and the said William Mawde would not
suffer this Examt to carry the same burden of wood away for
the said William Mawd told this Exam' that he had enclosed
the said ground by the lycense of the said ffrancis Mearinge
wch is all that he can depose or knoweth touchinge the said
lycense giueing.
To the Thibteenth he saith that all the tyme of the said
enclosure this Depont and his Father were as far as he can by
any meanes remember both tennants unto the said ffrancis
Mearinge of the tenement which this Exam' now occupyeth
and before the said enclosure this Exam' did diu'se and many
tymes gett wodd and brackens in the said ground and conu'ted
the same to thuse of this examt's Father and thus examt and
one Thomas Gromocke and all other the tennants of Ilkley at
their pleasure before the said ground was so enclosed did gett
wood and brakens there without any interrupcon But indeede
since the same ground was enclosed it hath beene occupyed as
belonging to Hollinghall till now of late.
To the ffowebtebnth he saith that his Father liued about
seuenteene yeares after the said enclosure But this Examt
was put in as tennant with his Father of the said tenemt
before the said enclosure as far as he oan remember.
To the ffifteenth he saith that his Mother dyed before his
Father so that she was neuer soly possessed of the said tenem.
To the Sixteenth he saith that he was ioyned tennant with
his Father of the said tenemt wch he now enioyeth in the life-
time of his Father And saith that his Mother dyed about
thirty five yeares ago.
To the Seaunteenth he saith he doth know one place where-
in water often runneth com* only called and knowne by the
name of Nichollriddin gill and the Examt neuer knew the
same called by any other name
26 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
To the Eighteenth and Nineteenth he saith that before
Lent last past he neuer heard the said gill beeke or rundell
accounted for a bounder between Hollinghall and Ilkley.
To the Twentith he saith that the said ground enclosed by
the said William Mawde which was called Westwodd before the
enclosue thereof doth lye on the West side of the said Nioholl-
ridding gill And Mr Ffrauncys Mearinge enclosed ground in
the East side of the said gill which was called Westwodd And
by report one Perkyn enclosed a parte of the said Westwodd
before this Examt cold remember.
To the One and Twentith he saith that he neuer knew the
said Nichollriddinge gill to be any boundr betweene Ilkley and
Hollinghall But this Examt saith that before the said West-
wodd was enclosed by the said Mr Mearinge and William
Mawde the same ground was veed as common as well for the
tennants of Hollinghall as for the tenants of the Mannor of
Ilkley.
To the Two and Twentith, Three and Twentith he saith he
doth know certeyne enclosed ground lying on the East side of
the said becke or rundle called Nichollriddinge gill within the
Lordship of Ilkley now or late in the tenures or occupacons of
one James Sheaffild late deoeased John Rossendale late de-
ceased William Ianson and others some of which grounds were
enclosed about ffortie yeares ago and some since But oerteynely
when those enclosures were made or how many there be of the
said enclosures this Examint cannot depose
To the ffoweb and Twentith he saith that at and before the
tyme of the said seu'all encloseing of the groundes lying on the
East side of the said Nichollriddinge gill all or most parte of
the said grounds so enclosed were verie woddy and bushey
grounds growen full of thornes hollings and other woodes and
brakens and since that time some of the same ground is stubbed
and made arable ground.
To the ffiue and Twentith he saith that some of the
groundes last mencioned before the same were so improved
were percell of the said Westwodd and so called vntill the
same were enclosed but Ianson neuer occupyed any part of the
Westwodd enclosed for bardengill is the uttmost fence or
bounder of the East side of the Westwood And the Westwodd
did extende no further Eastward but to the said Barden gill.
To the Six and Twentith that the said ground enclosed by
the said William Mawde and also the ground by report enclosed
by the said Parkin and all the ground lying on the East side
of Nichollridding gill extending to the said Barden gill were
called by the name of Westwood of Ilkley before thenclosure
thereof
To the Seauen and Twentith he saith that the said grounde
in the Informacon mencioned which was enclosed by the said
WITH Y0BK8HIBE FOLK-LOBE JOUBNAL. 27
William Mawde was called by the name of the Westwodd onely
before the same was enclosed And after that enclosure then it
was called the New Close or Oxclose or Intacke or by what
other name pleased them.
To the Eight and Twentith he saith that when John Middle-
ton purchased the Mannor of Ilkley of the said Ffrancys
Mearinge this Exam' was a wittnesse of liu'y and seizine which
was giuen of the same to the said John Middleton which was
so giuen about thirty eight yeares agoe And this Examts'
Father was then lyveing and liued about three yeares after
that tyme
To the Nyne and Twentith he saith that the said liu'ie and
seizine was so giuen and deliu'd in the howse wherein this
Examt dwelleth and in the Westwodd aboue the Gragge Topp
which was so giuen and deliu'ed in both those places by the
said Ffrancys Mearinge in his owne person to the said John
Middleton himself in the presence of William Ffox John Boss-
endale Bryan Hardwicke Thomas Mason and many others
To the Thibtith he saith that the said liu'y and seizine was
giuen in two places as aforesaid
To the One and Thibtith and Two and Thibtith he saith he
did see the said liu'y and seizine giuen in both the said places
as is aforesaid And it was first done in the howse wherein
this Examt dwelleth and vpon the same daie shortlie after-
wards in the said Westwodd.
To the Thbee and Thibtith he saith that liu'y and seizine
was giuen in the said Westwodd in the name of all the rest of
the grounds belonging to that Mannor for this Examt was
present when the same was so giuen whereby he is certyne to
depose herein
To the ffoweb and Thibtith he saith that he did see the
liu'y and seizine giuen and made both in the howse and in the
Westwodd as is aforesaid and he hath before deposed both who
gaue the same liu'y and seizine and to whom it was giuen and
who were witnesses thereof.
To the ffiue and Thibtith he saith that he did neuer say
that he did not depose that possession was giuen in any other
place upon the said purchase but in this Examt's Fathers
howse for this Examt from tyme to tyme hath affirmed and
confessed that the said possession was giuen both at the said
house and in the said Westwodd and he neu' spake the con-
trary to any man.
To the Six and Thibtith he saith that he did not at any time
eaie he must needs say as Mr Middleton his Mr. would haue
him to say or any words to that effect.
To the Seaun and Thirtith he saith that since he was ex-
amined before the Judges touching this matter he hath wished
that Mr Middleton and Mr Mawde were agreed together which
28 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
is all that he can remember he spake touchinge the matters in
this Interrogatorie sett downe.
To the Eight and Thirtith he saith he hath not confessed
any such matter as in this Interrogatory is sett downe for this
Examt saith that liu'y and seizine was deliu'ed in as good
manner and as effectuallie in the Westwodd as in the howse.
To the Nynk and Thirtith he saith that about twenty fine
yeares agoe the said John Middleton brought an action of
trespasse at the Common Lawe against the said William
Mawde and Christofer Mawde or thone of them and brought
the same to a nisi prius at Yorke And had yssue therein
ioyned and a jury sworne and the matter about to be tryed
then eyther the said William Mawde or Christofer Mawde
found such meanes by reason that Sir Richard Cholmeley who
then was Sherif of the County of Yorke was so neare of kyn to
the said John Middleton that the same matter was quashed
But who were Attorneys of either side in that cause or what
yssue was then joyned or who were then sworne as jurors or
who were then Judges of Assize he cannot depose for although
this Examt hath deposed as is aforesaid yet this Examints
whole knowledge therein ariseth by reason in that Assize week
when the matter was to be tryed he came to Yorke about buy-
ing of corne And for that this Examt was then tennant to Mr
Middleton therefore he went to the Castle Garth to learne how
the matter went And then he did understand how the matter
was quashed and by what means.
Signed thus Ex. pr. The Hardwicke.
In testimony that this coppie is true the Lord President and
Councell of the Queen's Maiestie established in the North at
the humble sute and request of the Relator haue caused her
Mats signer remaineinge with her Highnes Secretary attendant
upon the said Lord President and Councell to be hereunto sett
the sixteenth day of July in the ffower and thirtith yeare of
her Highnes' reigne Anno Dni 1592.
S thus ffacta collacone concordat cum Originali Ra. Rokebie.
[On a parchment 4 feet 7 inches by 22 inches.]
(Earlg ^orksbire 15 apt is ts.
A MS. book (5 inches by 8,) in the writing of Alverey
Jackson, a Yorkshire Baptist Minister, has been lent to us by
Mr. Ormerod, Langfield House, Todmorden, which supplies
materials for Baptist history at a period of which little is
known. Its principal contents are :
Sum's Melody Vindicated. — Question, How is the Church of
God to be considered ?
Ana., To (sic. for Two) ways, either as Catholick, and in-
visible ; or, as particular and visible.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 29
What is the Catholic Church ?
The Catholic and invisible Church, wch the Apostle calls the
General Assembly; consists of all the members of Christ's
mystical Body (both militant and triumphant) gathered into
one in Christ their head. Heb. 12. 28. Eph. 19. 10. Gal. 8.
28. Eph. 8. 15.
What is a particular church ?
A particular and visible church, is, a congregation of people
(who are under a visible profession of Christianity, usually
meeting in one place) gathered out of the world, by the preach-
ing of the gospel, unto faith in Christ, and by mutual agree-
ment, joyned together to worship God in His ordinances,
according to divine appointment. Act 1, 15 and 2, 1, and 2,
41, 42, 46, 47, and 4, 28, and 5, 18, 14, and 9. 26. 2 Cor. 8. 5.
What are God's Ordinances ?
(Ans.) Ac.
How many sorts ? ( )
What are the Ceremonial Ordinances ?
(Jewish.)
What are the Moral Ordinances ?
(Natural Worship.)
What are Evangelical Ordinances ?
(Baptism, the Lord's Supper, &c, (1) under the Law, (2)
under the Law and Gospel, (8) under the Gospel only.
Doth all these Ordinances belong to the Church only ?
(The word [preaching], prayer, and singing of Psalms to all
who attend the Lord's Supper and Censures of the Church to
the Church exclusively.
How do you prove that singing of Psalms and Hymns and
Spiritual Songs is an ordinance of God now under the New
Testament.
(1) It is part of natural worship, &c.
(2) Injoyned and commanded in New Test., Ac.
(8) Practised by Christ, and
(4) Foretold in Old Test,
is singing a moral duty ?
(Elaborately followed out.)
Eight verses follow :
(1) The time I have on earth to live,
Lord let me sing Thy praise ;
Who did at first me being give ;
And feeds me all my days.
(2) Thy works are great, thy ways are good,
Thy mercies never cease ;
Thou didst redeem me by Thy "blood,
And turn me by Thy grace.
80 YOBKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8.
(8) Therefore I'll sing praise till I die,
And death will be my gain ;
And when Christ oomes the second time
I'll rise and sing again.
The Use we are to make of all this is (1) For Lamentation,
(2) Advice, &c.
Page 1.
Hymn I. — Sung after a Sermon preached by John Craw6hay,
from Psall 46. 4. Aug : 5. 1716.
(1) There's a River the Streams whereof
Shall make glad the City
Of God, the Holy places of
The Tents of the most High.
(2) This City's very well compact,
If enemies assail ;
Upon a Bock it is Erect,
'Gainst which hell can't prevail.
* * * * *
(7) Hosanna to the fountain head
From whom these streams descend ;
Lord, raise our hearts Thy praise to spread,
Henceforth world without end.
(Alvery Jackson) A. L
Page 2.
Hymn II.— Sung after a Sermon preached by John Crawshay,
from Jam. 1. 26. Oct. 7. 1718.
(1) If any man Religious seem
And bridles not his tongue,
He his own heart deceives, and vain
Is that man's Religion.
* * * * •
(6) For 'tis said, they that would live long
And would good days enjoy ;
They must refrain their lips and tongue
From speaking vanity.
A. I. (Alvery Jackson.)
Page 8. Hymn III.
Poor Sinners all, let us now call
Unto our minds our sin,
And let's repent, that we have spe't
Our time so much therein.
(7) Lord (with the space) give us y* grace
Of true Repentance then ;
That happy we may be with Thee
For evermore ; Amen.
A.I.
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(Page 4.) Hymn IV. The Epistle to Youth.
Young people, Wisdom you invites.
6 verses unsigned.
(Page 5.) Hymn Y. Sung after a Sermon preached from
Ec. 11. 9.
The Judgment-day is coming on.
6 verses, signed A. I.
Page 6. Hymn VI.— Of Man's Poverty.
Poor Man, come see, thy poverty
Brought on thee by thy fall ;
6 verses, signed A. I.
Hymn VII.— Lord, we Thy holy name adore.
6 verses. A. I.
Hymn VIII. — Admire, my Soul, the sufferings
That Jesus Christ hath born ;
4 verses. A. I.
Hymn IX. — Sin is the thing the Lord doth hate
Pity, *tis lov'd by men !
9 verses. A. I.
Hymn X. — Come rise my heart thy Saviour's risen.
6 verses, signed I. D.
Hymn XL — He that hath not the Son, his lot
6 verses. A. I.
Hymn XII. — Jesus, Thy face I fain would see.
6 verses. A. I.
„ Xm. — A kind and gracious God have we,
0 let us give Him praise ;
His many favours unto us
Ought all our hearts to raise.
6 verses. A. I.
XIV. — Glory to God now in the highest.
6 verses. A. I.
XV. — Lord, what a doleful, wretched state ?
6 verses. A. I.
16. — It doth appear sinners are saved
6 verses. A. I.
17. — Sinners are saved by grace.
6 verses. A. I.
18. — 0 blessed day that I can say
My Jesus I am Thine.
7 verses. I. B.
19.— Cant. 8. 5.
Who's this that from the wilderness.
4 verses. A. I.
20. — Now let us sing a hymn of praise.
7 verses. A. I.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
21.— Of Baptism,
Go teach all nations and Baptize.
6 verses. A. I.
22. — Are we 0 Lord begot again
Unto a hope with Thee to reign ?
6 verses. A. I.
28. — An Acrostick : Sung before a Funeral Sermon,
By D. C. (David Crossley.)
I AMES EMMOT ASLEEP IN CHRIST.
I Gome, dear Lord, I come to Thee,
Accept me thro* Thy grace ;
My soul longs much to dwell in Thy
Eternal holy place, (fee.
24.— By D. C.
Poor mortals all now let us fall
Before God's holy throne.
6 verses.
25. — Sung on a Day of Preparation for the Lord's
Supper,' by a Church of Christ that had been
scattered, and left for some time without a
Pastour, &o.
Thine Ordinances Lord we have, &c.
We've had the Gospel many years, &c.
(8) For which abuses of Thy grace,
Thou took Thy hedge away,
And in a cloud Thou hid Thy face,
And left Thy sheep to stray !
(4) But now a shepherd Thou hast sent ;
(Tho' he is weak and mean)
Lord, take us into covenant,
And gather us again.
6 verses. A. I.
Hymn 26. — At once became the Angel's well.
12 verses. A. I.
„ 27. — Eccl. 12. 1. Young people bear in mind.
6 verses. A. I.
„ 28.— Mat. 5. 11. 12. Methinks I hear my Jesus speak.
6 verses. A. I.
„ 29. — The Sacred Three in One. 5 parts.
24 verses. A. I.
„ 80. — Who's this that stands and knocks so hard?
'Tis Jesus ; let Him in :
I cannot ope I my heart is barr'd f
And bolted so by sin 1
8 verses. A. I.
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„ 81. — Lord teach me in my youthful days,
My God, and Guide then be ;
And when my strength with age decays,
Still let me lean on Thee.
7 verses. A. I.
„ 82. — An Acrostick Sung at a Funeral Sermon preached
from Heb. 18; 18, 14, 15, occasioned by the
death of Richard Swinglehurst.
Redeemed by Christ my great High Priest,
I now His praises sing. A. I.
„ 88. — Sung on a Day of Preparation for the Lord's
Supper.
Lord we are here met to prepare.
5 verses, unsigned.
„ 84 — At the Lord's Supper.
Think now my soul wt thou dost owe.
6 verses, unsigned.
„ 85.— My Soul, did Enoch walk wth God.
7 verses, unsigned.
„ 86.— Let all the Children of the Lord.
4 verse 8, unsigned.
„ 87. — Poor sleepy sinners little think.
6 verses, unsigned.
„ 88. — Come manna-gatherers, all now sound.
6 verses, unsigned.
„ 89. — Help me my God, to sing Thy praise.
6 verses, unsigned.
„ 40. — By God it was contrived. 10 verses, unsigned.
„ 41. — Since rents are high and Trades are low,
There's many run behind ;
The ready way I fain would know,
A wealthy store to find.
12 verses, unsigned.
„ 42.— (page 48.)
The time I have on earth to live,
Lord, let me sing Thy praise.
8 verses, unsigned.
An Abridgment of a Sermon concerning the Gospel Ordinan-
ces of Singing Psalms, &c. Preached at Barnoldswick Nov. 10.
1717. By A. I.
Dearly beloved in the Lord Jesus X the Reasons why I
preached unto you and would indeavour to practise among you
this Ordinance of Singing Psalms ; are as follows, &c.
An abridgment of some of the principal heads of a Book by
Thomas Brooks, — An ark for all God's Noahs.
Y.N.Q. I)
84 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
A Sermon, preached at the marriage of by Thomas
Dickenson. Psal. 68. 6. God setteth the solitary in families.
(12 leaves.)
No scornfull beauty, ere shall boast
She made me love in vain ;
For she that I adored most
I now as much disdain.
And so on for twenty pages of love songs or reproachful jilt-
ing addresses, signed by Thomas Cockshot ; possibly copied.
This part of the volume has evidently no connection with the
rest of the M8S., but was bound up with them for preservation.
A fraction of another note book follows beginning with page
47, being outlines of sermons in Mr. Jackson's writing. After
page 77 there are a few blank leaves, and then the following
outline of a Baptist Association which I have fully copied.
The management of the Association held at Barnoldswick on
the fifteenth and sixteenth days of June, in the year 1720, was
as followeth —
In the first place after the Association was come together it
was agreed that the meeting should begin with prayer for a
blessing upon it by Alverey Jackson. After which John Sedg-
field being chosen to preach, gave out the 28 psalm to be sung,
and preached from Jerem. 6. 29. Sermon being ended Thomas
Greenwood followed with prayer, and then Bichard Ashworth
after making a short introductory discourse, lead forth the first
psalm and preached from Acts 5. 88. 89. and concluded with a
short prayer. Then the Association came together and B. A.
was by vote chosen Moderator.
The Letters from the several Churches were read ; and the
questions therein commended to each one consideration against
the day following, and John Wilson was chosen to conclude
the first day with prayer.
The second day Nathanael Booth was chosen to begin the
meeting with prayer. Then in the next place, the question
proposed in the Letter from Liverpool was debated, viz.—
Whether the Laying on of hands upon all Believers as believers,
without relation to any office, be a standing Ordinance in the
Church of Christ, and to be practised now by His Ministers or
not ? Answered as follows : —
In answer to the Question proposed by the Church of Liver-
pool, about laying on of hands upon Baptized Believers as sack
in order to communion. It is reasonable to suppose it was
practised in the Apostoliok and Primitive times, and if the
cessation of the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit then
attending its usage cannot be pleaded as a supersedeas to this
ceremony, it ought to be used still. Some of us whose names
are underwritten are of opinion it cannot ; for if this ceremony
or principle cease, because stript of those priviledges that then
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accompanied it, it is reasonable that other services cease for
the same cause : for what is plainer then miracles accompany-
ing both the Standing Ordinances of preaching and prayer,
Mar. 16. 16. 17 ; Acts 4. 81, and 8. 15. Bat whoever takes the
Liberty in it let it be done with prudence and moderation, not
abasing it to superstition, neither censuring those that omit it.
Bom. 14. from the 18 to the 28.
Bichard Ashworth John Sedgfield
John Wilson Tho. Seaoome
Alverey Jackson
And it was agreed that this case thus drawn up and subscribed
only by these five of the Association, should be sent only to the
Church at Liverpool in answer to their question, to the intent
that they may be the better satisfied, and other Churches ye
less troubled about it.
In the second place the case in Bodhill-end Letter was con-
sidered wch was presented to this purpose — That they had in
time past some person or p'sons among them as common
hearers (considering whose conduct they could not but charit-
ably hope their condition was safe) who could not see it their
duty to enter orderly into Church Communion in the time of
their health, who yet in the time of their sickness earnestly
desired to partake of ye Lord's Supper before they left the
world* Question — Whether it is warrantable to administer the
Lord's Supper to such a person in such a condition ? Ans.
Whereas a Question was proposed about communicating a
dying person, upon a friendly and amicable debate thereupon
it was concluded that several such difficulties would necessarily
intangle the final determination of it as would make it both
proper and necessary to refer the drawing of it up to some
particular person: Whereupon it was agreed that Bichard
Ashworth should draw up the whole case against the next
Association in order to prepare it for their further judgment.
Thirdly upon the consideration of some dangerous evils,
especially of a Laziness and coldness of Spirit, grown up or in
apparent danger to grow up, among the several churches be-
longing to this Association ; we have thought it necessary after
a long consultation in inquiring into the matter as to the evil,
the cause of the evil, and cure of it: as one likely means among
the rest to set apart a certain day solemnly to be observed by
all the Churches, by way of fasting and humiliation, prayer
and supplication : and think proper on that occasion to appoint
Aug. 4. 1720, concluding at the same time to revive the too
much neglected observation of the last appointment of this
nature, concluded in the last Association, 1719, obliging every
person to the weekly observation of every Thursday.
Fourthly it was debated, whether we should endeavour to
supply the people at Gildersome now left without publick
36 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8.
means thro* Mr. 0. absence. Axis. It was agreed that we
should indeavour to provide them a supply.
Fifthly it was inquired, whether it doth most properly belong
to the Deacons of the Church to distribute the Elements of
bread and wine among the communicants in the administration
of the Lord's Supper ? Ans. For as much as the Deacons are
the hands of the Church; we judge it doth most properly
belong to them to do that service.
Sixthly, The following Letter was drawn up and agreed upon
that each one of the several churches joyned in this Association
shall have a copy of it.
Time has made it notoriously evident and plain that some
lesser evils connived at in some worthy persons amongst us has
at last grown to be very pernicious to our profession in general,
as well as such persons in p'ticular, insomuch that it is not
without great reason we all henceforward be watchful wth an
unwearied and invincible diligence, and take all pious and
painful methods and measures to prevent any such thing at its
first appearance ; in like manner we desire that all our several
Churches study to be peaceable, and meddle not in ye world
more then needs must: provoke one another by counselling and
catechizing of youth. Timothy's example will ever shine
bright, who being influenced by the seasonable advice and un-
paralleled piety of both mother and grandmother had gained a
familiar knowledge of the Scriptures with the Apostles' appro-
bation and high commendations that it was able to make him
wise unto salvation. Meet often together ; make it known to
all men you are Christ's disciples by continuing in His word,
John 8. 81. and loving one another. If a brother, an officer,
an elder or pastor be overtaken in a fault you that are spiritual
and privy to his failing restore such an one with meekness not
sawciness ; restore him, not expose him, make known to him,
do not whisper it around the country ; if he hear thee, well ; if
not employ some other whose presence or prudence may more
probably prevail ; but if not think it not too great a trouble,
nor too far about to tell it to the Church ; and if too difficult
for yours, bring it to the Association. Study to outstrip one
another. Forbear all provocations in word or in gesture, give
no offence carelessly ; nor take it causelessly ; make it manifest
to the world you do more than others. Let it appear your
dissent is rational and conscientious; and cut off occasion from
them that desire occasion. Fill up the duties of your relations,
both publiok and private. Be not selfish to serve God of that
wch cost you nought, when to lay out more for God is manifest
duty and liker to meet with a richer return. Make religion
well spoken of by good living ; let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good works, and glorifie yonr
Father which is in heaven. Take heed to your ways and
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especially that yon offend not with your tongue, and to this
end let your words be with grace seasoned with salt, that they
may administer grace to the hearers. Reconcile the two abused
extream in religion, advance and extol free grace, maintain
and promote good works. Believe all His promises, do all His
commands ; make Christ all in all ; and when yon have done
all count yourselves unprofitable. So fare you well.
All these things unanimously agreed to by all the Ministers
and Messengers of the Association (except the case before
excepted.)
From Bossendale — Richard Ashworth, Simeon Lord, John
Elison.
From Liverpool — John Sedgfield, Thomas Seacombe.
From Rawden — John Wilson, Nathanael Booth, Tho. Hard-
castle.
From Rodhill-end or Stone-slack — Thomas Greenwood, John
Greenwood.
From Sutton — (Henry Wilkinson, disappointed,) Robert
Clongh.
From Barnoldswick — Alverey Jackson, John Hargreaves.
Tottlebank came not. Wherefore it was agreed that a Letter
should be drawn up and sent thither in the name of the Asso-
ciation to inquire into their state, and know the reasons why
they came not to the Association.
And Lastly, at the request of the Association, Rich. Ash-
worth closed up the whole with a general exhortation, and
prayer to the Lord.
It was concluded that the next Association be at Baccup in
Bossendale.
[This Baccup Association Meeting would take place in 1721,
but there are no notes of other meetings until it has worked
round again in 1728 to be the turn to hold the Association at
Baccup.]
A Circular Letter from the Association at Baccup, June 12th
and 18th, 1728.
We send our Salutation to the several Churches of our
Association and Denomination, wishing their welfare, and
longing to know how they do.
We have some of us spent days without eating and nights
without sleeping, as an heathen monarch to his honour some-
time did of old when Daniel's life was in danger by the lyons ;
as ours and our devout friends are now by customary raigning
6ins and restless devils : now suffer us to salute you in those
savory names of Israelites without guile and your ministers of
Nasarites purer than snow and whiter than milk, and your
elderd and faithful people, as Daniels ; servants of the living
God.
88 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
And now tell us truly, we ask yon lovingly, whether yon
serve your God constantly, and send and sue to Him daily,
and pray to Him continually ; for it is a shame that the world
should be more unwearied in plotting than you in praying ; or
that they should take more pains to go to hell than you to
heaven, especially considering that plots was never any match
for prayer nor the counsel of the wicked able to stand before
the supplications of the righteous.
Be so kind to search and see, whether this living God be
able and actually has by your endeavours delivered you from
the roaring lyon of hell, that goes about seeking who he may
destroy, has wounded many to death, and has left many houses
desolate and turned many professors into time servers, and
many have not only lost their own standing and indangered
their own souls, but have also become btumbling blocks to
others, for one sinner destroys much good. But 'tis some
comfort that whosoever is the author or instrument of troubles,
offences, or heresies ; God is the orderer and nothing shows a
more holy frame of heart than when we stay not in creatures
but are carried to God as the author of our comforts and
crosses.
Many there be that say they shall have, and others that say
they have Peace, though they walk in the imaginations of their
own hearts. Deut. 29. 19.
[twice as much more.]
lastly that you may do this is our counsel and prayer and when
you do we pronounce the Peace of our God upon you and all
that walk according to gospel rule and order, and on the whole
Israel of God. Farewell.
The Appendix.
The Letters from the several Churches carrying in them an
unusual complaint of the decay of piety and the want of the
power of Godliness, and some principal causes hereof seeming
to be too much indulgence in the officers and too much indiffer-
ency in many members of the several Churches : We therefore
recommend it as the advice of this Association; That the
rulers of the several Churches magnify their office and look
well to the order of God's house ; yet there be a careful and
strict discipline exercised in the several societies committed to
their care and charge. Let the teachers wait on their teaching,
the elders rule with diligence, and the deacons minister with
chearfulness ; in an especial manner taking care that the
ministry be not contemned and under-valued, the ordinances
slighted and neglected, that the members do not wrong or
abuse one another, either by word or action, but yet the unity
of the Spirit be kept entirely in the bond of Peace, that the
weak be not offended and ye inquirers discouraged.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 39
We farther advise all those that have given up themselves to
the Churches of Christ in this Association, that they every one
ieep their places, and fill them up with duty; that they beware
of absenting themselves from ye worship and ordinance of God
in the Church, that they stay not at home through idleness,
nor wander abroad through fickleness or humor, nor suffer the
world to have the preference to the worship of God, but dili-
gently and constantly attend upon public ordinances and pro-
mote meetings, unless they can be able to give a sufficient
reason to God and their brethren to whom they are accountable
for such negligence. We advise you to meet often together for
prayer and other parts of divine worship, that you carry not
your strange to a shy of one another, but be loving, free and
cordial in all your carriage and behaviour as brethren and
sisters of the same family, travellers in the same way and heirs
of the same inheritance ; encouraging and helping forward one
another in the ways of God, calling upon one another to your
duty, saying, Come and let us go up to the house of the Lord,
and when one of your kind brethren or sisters calls upon you
to your duty do not excuse yourselves. Be not forward to take
up evil reports one of another ; nor speak slightly, nor con-
temptibly of one another before their faces or behind their
backs. We also exhort you to obey and submit to your faith-
ful pastors and teachers, and as you expect that they should
often visit you do you often visit them, and open unto them
your soul wants and spiritual deseases, that they may know
now to suit their ministry to you and apply words in season to
your conviction, instruction and comfort. Mai. 2. 7.
We advise you also, To maintain communion with God by
secret prayer and keep up family worship. To sit loose from
the world, to labour to get ground against your corruptions,
especially the sin that doth most easily beset you. Flie from
the errors and customs of the times and places wherein you
live, and as much as in you lies endeavour to live peaceably
with all men. These are the few necessary things we would
advise you to, which if you observe to do ye shall do well.
Fare-ye-well.
An Hymn on the Advice given in this Epistle and Appendix.
If this Advice be taken well,
And followed without fail ;
We need not fear the gates of hell
Against us can prevail.
[Nine more verses.]
40
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
©np3 of a fUgtsta: of ®I)U&mt
Baptized by the Rev. Mr. [Timothy] Jollie, [Sheffield], from April 18,
1681, (the day of his ordination,) to July 27, 1704;* 23 years 3
months. Brit. Mus. Add. 24436.
1681
May 16
Jonathan
Joseph Taison
Fullwood
80
Edward & Rebecca
Thomas Twigg
June 18
Samuel
Samuel Shepherd
Mansfield
Aug. 10
Josiah
Wm. Ward
Sheffield
18
Peter & Obadiah
Robt. Dickenson
Fishlake
22
John & Margaret
John Trippet
Sheffield
Oct. 17
Rebecca
John Rogers
High Lee
Dec. 5
John
Samuel Thwaites
Sheffield
14
John
John Baker
do.
Jan. 19
John
Mercur8 Shimeld
do.
Feb. 25
Christian
Joseph Smith
do.
Mar. 8
Hezekiah
Joseph Smith
do.
Elizabeth
Ralph Hider
do.
Mary
John Barber
do.
1682
April 12
Mary
Joseph Yates
do.
19
James
James Shimeld
do.
May 8
Ruth
Joseph Justis
do.
June 22
Elizabeth
Joshua Bayes
do.
Aug. 81
Dorothy
John Bamforth
Fullwood
Sep. 4
Anna
Edw. Roberts
Sheffield
Oct. 9
Elizabeth
Thos. Wilson
do.
Nov. 22
Thomas & Deborah
Thos. Machon
Crookmore
Dec. 18
Jeremiah
John Baker
Sheffield
29
Jonathan
Jonathan Smith
do.
Jan. 4
Elisabeth
Antho Morris
do.
1688 Feb. 20
Mary
Mercurs. Shimeld
do.
27
Anna
Joseph Yates
do.
Mar. 11
Deborah
Dan1 Oates
Chesterfield
1684
April 81
Anna
Thos. Wilson
Sheffield
May 8
Matthew
Matth. Wright
do.
25
Hannah
Robt. Ellis
do.
May 25
Edward
Joseph Smiths
do.
Sarah
Ralph Hider
do.
June 5
Anna
Joseph Taison
Fullwood
8
Deborah
Nich8 Crabtree
Fishlake
Aug. 12
Rebecca
John How
little Shefd
28
Joshua
Mr.Samllbbet8on
Leeds at Hatfd
Sep. 10
William & Joseph
Wilm Turner
Sheffield
29
John
Jonatn Smith
do.
Oct. 28
Elisabeth
Henry Oates
do.
Jan. 25
Thomas
Saml Hallows
Glapwell
29
Joseph
Mercui8 Shimeld
Sheffield _
* ? 1702. Mr. Jollie died in 1714, aged 55, and is buried there. A copy of the Inscription! on U*
and other grareatones there will be acceptable.
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41
87
Apr. 15
June 4
Jane 5
19
Aug. 2
10
Oct. 8
Nov. 10
Dec. 10
Jan. 26
Feb. 28
Apr.
May 10
June 14
15
Sep. 14
Oct. 21
24
Nov. 8
I Deo. 4
Dec. 22
Jan. 18
1 26
|Feb. 16
25
[Mar. 15
April 10
28
May 16
June 21
July 80
Aug. 1
Nathaniel
Thos. Twigg
Rebecca
Field Sylvester
Joseph
John Lee
Henry
Henry Oates
Joseph Yates
Lidia
John
William Turner
Edward
John Barber
William
Ralph Hider
Ephraim
Joseph Smith
Sarah
Saml. Hallows
John
George Car
Lidia '
Andrew Crabtree
Hannah
Joseph Yates
Hephzibah
Robert Ellis
Rebecca
Jonn Smith
Rachel
John Curtland
Thomas
Thomas Wilson
Martha
Joseph Hancock
George
Thomas Webster
Mary
Sam. Hutchinson
Christian
Joseph Smith
Samuel
John Swindon
Joshua
Wil. Turner
Elisabeth
Joseph Clayton
Thomas
John Morphey
Elisabeth
Wil. Hall
John
Nics. Matthewxnan
Matthew
Matth* Clayton
Sarah
John King
Matthew & Rachel
George Barber
Samuel
William Clayton
Thomas
liArthur Mangery
Hugh
Hugh Hider
Samuel
Robert Darwent
Ann
Edw. Taylor
Samuel
Samuel Hallows
Thomas
John Lee
John
Joseph Yates
Ann
Sam Hawksworth
Nathaniel
Jonn Webster
Mary
John Barber
Abigail
John How
Jonathan
Mercu™ Shimeld
Samuel
Robert Stamforth
Edward
Wil Bates
Anthony
Anthony Morris
Sarah
Sam. Hutchison
Hannah
Sam. Thwaites
Sheffield
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Glapwell
Sheffield
Fishlake
Sheffield
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Stannington
Sheffield
do.
Bradfield
Sheffield
do.
Gainsborough
Eeksby
Birley Carr
Sheffield
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Pitsmoor
Glapwell
Sheffield
Fullwood
Sheffield
[ir p. 48.]
42
YORKSHIRE MOTES AND QUERIES.
1688
Aug. 25
Elisabeth
Francis Girdler
Sep. 20
Hannah
Uamael
Samael
James Barber
Robert Ellis
Wil» Hides
Oct. 10
Thomas
Nevil Symmons
Joseph Fox
15
Sarah
16
Sarah
John Gurtland
Nov. 8
Elisabeth
John Wood
12
Elisabeth
Wil. Turner
15
Bath
Bich* Marsh
19
Hannah
JonB Smith
Jan. 8
Mary
Jona Webster
14
Benjamin
Arthur Mangery
20
Elisabeth
Saml Hallows
Glapwell
Feb. 2
Hannah
James Oates
Clarkhouse
12
Jeremiah
Thos. Marshall
Sheffield
23
Moses
Moses Springfield
Mar. 4
George
John Button
Eittons
1689
May 2
Mary
John Birks
Sheffield
18
Martha
Jos. Smith
81
John
Caleb Clayton
June 19
Samuel
Bobt. Salmon
20
Elisabeth
John Lee
28
Samuel
Balph Hider
Aug. 22
John
GeorgeHutchinson
14
Ann
Ben* Shimeld
Oct. 4
Joseph
Jos. Smith
24
John & Thomas
Sarah
Thos. Scargell
Sam1 Webster
Nov. 6
Timothy
Wm. Ward
21 j Timothy
John Wood
Mary
Wil Salmon
26
James
James Hoole
Dec. 8
Elisabeth
John Curtland
11
Samuel
Adam Hawksworth
Jan. 2
Benjamin
Nat. Sadler
Feb. 6 , Elisabeth
John Swinden
22
Martha
Bichd Marsh
1690
Apr. 14
John
Wm. Hides
22
Mary
Saml Hallows
Glapwell
May 9
Ann
Mary
Jos Yates
Anthony Morris
Sheffield
10
Lydia
James Oates
22
Timothy
George Carr
June 17
Mary
William
Jos. Smith
Josh. Dewsbury
July 11
John
Francis Girdler
Thomas
— Woodward
Sheffield
WITH YOBKSHIBE FOLK-LOBE JOUBNAL.
48
o[ u
1 Martha
21
James
29
Susannah
Sep. 4
Zechariah
22
Martha
Mary
iNov. 8
Elisabeth
12
Elisabeth
John
20
Joshua
Hannah
Dec. 1
Mary
11
Mary
Jan. 12
Elisabeth
Mar. 9
Jonathan
22
Elisabeth
81
Alice
ipr. 7
Timothy
Mary
Hay 4
Richard
oly 22
Sarah
Lug. 6
Nathaniel
10
Thomas
Benjamin
Mary
17
Hannah
26
Nathaniel
ep. 1
Timothy
28
Anna
3t. 9
Thomas
20
Matthias
22
Martha
81
Matthew &
jc. 6
Martha
a. 26
Joshua
28
Sarah
b. 15
Hannah
r. 1
Mary
2
Joseph
Ann
-. 11
Jonathan
V 8
Hannah
12
Hannah
26
Joseph
e 24
Hannah
80
Samuel
8 1 Samuel
4l
John
Joshua
Wil»Hall
James Hoole
John Smith
John Arthur
Bobt Ellis
Thos. Wilson
John Smith
Andrew Hill
Samuel Roberts
Thos. Marshall
Sam. Hutchinson
John Lee
Nevil Simmons
Caleb Clayton
Jona Smith
George Fox
James Haugh
Saml Thwaites
Wil Ward
Rich* Marsh
Wil. Woodward
Sam. Hallows
Wil. Turner
John Cortland
Thos. Scargell
Francis Girdler
Nathl Bacon
Timothy Jollie ^
Benjn Stamforth
John Wood
OhristopherEaslem
Moses Springfield
Saml Roberts
Wil. Bate '
John King
James Spencer
John Mandevile
James Bullae
Joseph Yates
James Hoole
AdamHawksworth
Thos. Handley
— Holland
Josh. Dewsbury
Wil. Ward
Wil. Wadsworth
Timo. Shirley
Elias Wadsworth
or Wordsworth.
Gainsborough
Sheffield
Attercliffe
Sheffield
Attercliffe
Sheffield
Glapwell
Sheffield
Glapwell
Attercliffe
Sheffield
Attercliffe
Sheffield
Glapwell
Skinnerthorpe
Sheffield
Hall Car
Sheffield
Attercliffe
Rotherham
Sheffield
44
T0BK8HIBE NOTES AND QUEBIE8.
1692 Aug. 16
Alice
Andrew Hill
25
Berthia
Bobt. Ellis
29
Hannah
Jos. Smith
Sep. 2
Bobert
Wil Marsland
Attercliffe
26
John
John Bacon
Heath
26
William
John Levett
Attercliffe
Oct. 17
John
John
Caleb Clayton
Edward Windle
Sheffield
22
Hannah
Saml. Hallows
Glapwell
Dec. 2
Benjamin
Wm. Smith
Attercliffe
12
Edward
Thos. Marshall
Sheffield
15
Sarah
Joseph Machon
28
Mary
Ben. Stamforth
Jan. 16
Nevil
Nevil Simmons
Sheffield
19
Mary
James Hoole
Feb. 8
Ann
James Wilson
Tinsley
Samuel
Sam1 Roberts
Attercliffe
Mar. 18
Mary
Wil. Woodward
16
Ruth
Thos. Wilson
Sheffield
1698
Apr. 60
Mary
Saml Thwaites
May 1
William
Wil. Ward
May 8
Elisabeth
John Bradley
17
James
James Bullas
Grimesthorpe
June 2
Sarah
John Smith
Attercliffe
5
Joshua
Bichd Marsh
Sheffield
10
Ann
George Fox
21
Daniel
Joseph Lee
July 18
James
Wil. Ashford
81
Mary
Nich* Shertliffe
Aug. 18
Samuel
John Wood
22
Elisabeth
Jos Caladine
Bolsover
Oct. 9
Lidia
John Holland
Sheffield
80
Hephzibah
Chris Haslem
Nov. 16
James*
Martha
John Nettleton
John Pinder
Attercliffe
15
Sarah
Fran Girdler
Sheffield
Dec. 12
George
Sam1 Ashford
Grimesthorpe
27
Elisabeth
Edward Roberts
29
Mary
Hannah
Mary
Bobert
— Crooks
— Cowdale
— Cowdale
Ephr. Nichols
Jan. 11
John
Richd Crabtree
25
Joseph
John Curtland
Feb. 12
Bebecca
Balph Wildsmith
Mar. 8
Mary
Nath. Bacon
Glapwell
7
Hephzibah
Jere Fisher
1694
Apr. 11
John
* — Brown & Sara
a his daughter^
* Two children, or Brown and hi* daughter b*pL
WITH TOBKBHIBE FOLK-LOBE JOUKNAL.
46
94|
Sarah
Elias Wordsworth
26
Hannah
Thos. Scargell
Mary
Jona Smith
Hannah
Daniel Meenis
May 24 Theodosia
Saml Hallows
Glapwell
lJuly 9 'William
Henry Wherrick
Bolsover
Aug. 80 Samuel
Jona Shepherd
Sep. 10 Joseph
Sam1 Parramore
15 j Elisabeth
Hunt (William)
Glapwell
! 24 John
James Bullae
Skinnerthorpe
, Oct. 5 ; Mary
John Almond
Attercliffe
20 1 Susanna
John Nettleton
22 ! Sarah
Wm. Ward
Sheffield
Dec. 10
Mary
Sam. Roberts
26
Joseph
Lemuel Nutt
Jan. 17
William
Nevil Simmons
Timothy
Thos. Marshall
i 28
Jeremiah
Josh Oates
Attercliffe
Feb. 21
John
Wil. Wallace
Sheffield
Mar. 4
Andrew
Andrew Hill
7
Hannah
Ephr Nichols
11
Samuel
Saml Hunter
29
Matthew
James Hoole
Tinsley
Apr. 15
Hannah
Thos. Wilson
Sheffield
24
Elias
Elias Wordsworth
do.
Jane
James Hoole
May 18
Mary
Sam. Hawksworth
Crooksmon
27
Hannah
John Wood
Sheffield
29
Timothy
Sam1 Hallows
Glapwell
June 24
Elisabeth
Balph Hides
Sheffield
Samuel
Luke Winter
Fuly 29
Mary
Josh Hawksworth
Ug. 19
Lidia
Edw. Roberts
Sep. 5
Ann
Ralph Wildsmith
16
Ann
Wil. Woodward
27
John
John Brown
)ct. 18
Frances
John Murphey
Gainsborough
18
William
Thos. Handley
HallCarr
rov. 14
William
Fran. Girdler
Sheffield
tec. 9
George
! Caleb Clayton
Anna
Sam Paramore
an. 1
TimottyBM
i John Heywood
Pontefract
eb. 8
Obedience
j Chris Haslam
Sheffield
18
Theodosia
Nich* Shirtliffe
24
James
John Mandevile
Elisabeth
— Allison
Palterton
ar. 1
James
Gervase Bellamy
Gainsbro
80
Anna
Saml Thwaites
Sheffield
46
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1696
Apr.
2
Joseph
Jose Smith
May
11
Martha
John Wood
26
William
Jose Barber
Darnal [thorpe
June 22
Mary
— Bilby
Staley Wood-
29
Rebecca
Wil Ward
Sheffield
July
9
John
Daniel Meenis
1697
July
16
Ephraim
James Bullas
Skinnerthorpe
Elisabeth
James Wilson
Tinsley
22
Mary
David Oass
Sheffield
Aug.
9
Aaron
Moses Springfield
25
George
Thos. Handley
HaUCarr
80
Joseph
Emanuel Newton
Sheffield
Oct.
14
William
Will Wallace
17
Nathaniel
Sam1 Baxter
Gainsbro'
25
Stephen
Wil. Ward
Sheffield
Nov-
10
Sarah
M™ Wyld North-
Dec.
22
Sarah
Dr Wainwright
Jan.
8
Francis
Stephen
— Gowdal
Sam Hawkworth
Feb.
7
Christopher
Wm Allison
Paltertown
14
Jonathan
Chrisr Haslam
21
John
M" Holland North
Mar.
2
Jacob
Saml Roberts
Birley Carr
Joel
Jona Shaw
Wadsley
7
Elisabeth
Wil Woodward
1698
81
Elisabeth
Edw. Sanderson
Sheffield
Apr.
11
Sarah
Hugh Harrison
Paltertown
25
John
Elisabeth
John Warbleton
John Bamforth
Sheffield
June 18
John
John Hough
15
Mary
Bobt Hoole
20
Joshua
John Browne
28
Thomas
Saml Roberts
July
2
Thomas
Tho.Blenerhaysset Atterolifie
18
Samuel
Jos. Smith
Sheffield
Sep.
18
Hannah
— Aldred
25
Lidia
Wm. Hunt
Glapwell
Oct.
8
Elisabeth
Joseph Fletcher
Sheffield
6
John
Jos. Pierson
24
Lydia
Sam Thwaites
26
Daniel & Mary
Daniel Twybell
Brightsid
27
Sarah
Dan1 Meenis
Sheffield
Nov.
18
Joshua
— Travis
28
Nathanel
Nath1 Hoyland
Dec.
19
Mary
John Stamforth
Jan.
2
Sarah
Jose Sanderson
4
John
Abijah Ashton
,
11
Sarah
Bobt Crookes
WITH YOBKSHIBE FOLK-LOBE JOURNAL.
47
9?
Dorcas
— Jenkinson
28
Ezra
Lemuel Nutt
25
Elisabeth
Nevil Simmons
26
John
George Carr
Feb. 20
Mary
Thos. Marshall
27
Jonathan
Jona Dixon
Elisabeth
Wil. Burton
Mar. 6
Mary
Wil. Stear
80
William
Ralph Hides
Joshua
Luke Winter
Ruth
Jona Smith
Ap. 9
Elisabeth
— Robinson
Gainsbro'
19
Thomas
Jon Fashley
Attercliffe
Sarah
Wm. Wallace
Sheffield
May 25
James
John Bright
Aug. 7
Elisabeth
Caleb Clayton
Aug. 27
John
John Mandefield
StonyHoughton
Sep. 25
Sarah
Jona Hunter
Sheffield
28
John
David Gass
80
Timothy
Wil Fawson
Glapwell
)ct. 9
Thomas
John Warbleton
Sheffield
28
Esther
Wil Ward
fov. 1
Titus
John Almond
2
Elisabeth
Jere Waynwright
>ec. 4
Alice
Dan1 Meenis
11
Rebecca
Joseph Fletcher
%n. 29
William
Wm. Heldrick
eb. 19
Joseph
Jos. Wilson
ar. 4 Edward
Edw. Hancock
25 Elkanah
John Stamforth
or. 18 Jonathan
Danl Twybell
22 ; Joshua
Thos. Marshall
27 J Hannah
Wil. Woodward
ne 17 1 Caleb
Henry Warwick
15 Euphan
Wm. Wallace
ly 9 Susanna
Sam1 Roberts
26 , Mary
Leesland (Jos.)
Stead (William)
David Fullilove
p. 6 William
16
Charles
3. 7
William
Jon Turner
15
Mary
Jos Sanderson
r. 22
Mary & Joseph
Jos Smith
28
Abijah
Jon. Oakes
Attercliffe
25
Bath
Adam Hawkworth
. 9
Ebenezer
Wil. Ward
Sheffield
28
Jeremiah
Dr Waynwright
SO
John
John Bamforth
2
Elisabeth
Nich' Shirtcliffe
48
YOBKSHIBE NOTES AND QUIBIE8.
1700
24
Simeon
Em1 Newton
Feb. 26
Anne
Simmons
1701
Apr. 7
Simeon
Sam1 Thwaytes
Ap. 9
Martha
Abijah Ashton
16
Lydia
James Wilson
May 14
Lemuel
Lem1 Nutt
June 11
Mary
William
Edw. Sanderson
— Cowdale
July 10
George
George Lewis
Brightsid
21
Ebenezer
Joseph Fletcher
Sheffield
24
Helen
Dan. Meenis
Aug. 12
Elisabeth
Jos. Webster
14
Joseph
Wil Wallace
Sep. 4
John
Mary
Saml Shore
Bobt Palmer
10
Hannah
Jos Pashley
1 U
Hannah
Nath Rhodes
Elisabeth
Ben Pashley
1 17
Martha
Dan1 Twybell
1 19
John
Jos Travis
Oct. 9
Mary
Jona Dixon
28
Lydia
William
John Brown
Wm. Hobson
Nov. 29
Samuel
Elias Wordsworth
Sheffield
Dec. 4
Sarah
John
John Sanderson
John Stamforth
19
Mary
John Meenis
Jan. 4
Robert
Francis Badcliffe
15
Stephen
Turner, Adult
26
Elisabeth
Buth
wife of Bob.Black-
dau. do. [stoole
Feb. 26
George
Joseph
Geo. Fox
Jona Woollen
Mar. 18
John
Ch" Fullilove
Treeton
1702
26
Luke
Caleb
Luke Winter
Caleb Clayton
Sheffield
Ap. 28
William
Wm. Woodward
May 4
Buth
Jos. Smith
June 4
Mary
Joseph
Robert
Jona Winter
Jos. Leathly
— Bright
8
James
John Hough
18
George
Thos. Marshall
July 80
John
Jos. Sanderson
Benjamin
Eman1 Newton
IT This is a remarkable entry. P. 41. Arthur Mangery removed to Leeds. Then be tnjgf £
counterfeiting ooln, was convicted at York and executed. His son, Thomas Imagery, UJ*"*1 V
Mr. Jollle, was afterwards D.D., and Canon of Durham, and died 5 March, 1756, et 71. Bttcbto**1
Durham, II. 178.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
49
Jitrtitts of $t*to Itaoks.
The Bbonte Country: Its Topography, Antiquities, and
listory. By J. A. Erskine Stuart, L.R.C.S., [of Staincliffe,
>ewabury.] Printed by C. Greening, Bradford, 1888, pp. xiv.,
i2.
Mr. Greening is to
be congratulated on the
superb quality of this
volume, in printing and
binding; and Bradford
may equally be proud
of Mr. Shepherd, whose
thirty-three sketches
adorn the work. All
these (save seven,) are
Yorkshire views, of
Bronte scenes at Dews-
bury, Hartshead, Kirk-
lees, Haworth, Birstall.
Wethersfield Church,
Cowan Bridge, and Tun-
stall Church are also
portrayed. Dr. Stuart
quotes an opinion we
gave many years ago
that Dumb Steeple
(around which Luddite
reminiscences cluster,)
derives its name from
doomed steeple — a sanctu-
ary boundary of Kirk-
lees Nunnery. Having
r seen any explanation of the word, or account of its
a, we would invite discussion thereon. The topographer
antiquary will be delighted with Dr. 8tuart's volume,
1 is particularly accurate in its varied details, and written
eminently descriptive style. Of the story of the Brontes
e not now at liberty to write, but we state unhesitatingly
Or. Stuart has supplied, and supplied well, a missing link
3nte literature, which will gain interest as time rolls on.
ikshire Abchjeological Association. Record Series, Vol.
Vills in the Yobk Begistby, 1686 to 1652. Printed for
>ciety [by White, Worksop], 1888, pp. vi., 201.
i short preface is signed by F. Collins, and we venture to
ulate with Dr. Collins for not having his name on the
age as Editor. The laborious work of compilation and
Q. E
Dumb Steeple. By permission.
50 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
painstaking editorial industry, not to mention the immeasur-
able boon conferred on genealogists and the public, required
the fullest Editorial announcement. There are about sixty
entries on each page, and yet this is only one of the several
volumes we are expecting from Dr. Collins' labour. There
have been special difficulties in compiling this Index, for the
Wills here recorded are still in bundles, and not transcribed into
books as before and after this interval. Consequently they are
far less known. Having spent a considerable time copying
from Wills from 1889, we await with impatience the two vols,
promised containing the Index from 1889-1600. This truly
National Work should be supported from the National Ex-
chequer.
Yorkshire Archaeological Association. Rules. Contents of
Journal. Record Series. Catalogue of Library. Huddersfield,
Edward Hodgkinson, King Street, 1888. pp. Hi.
Yorkshire Arch, and Top. Association. Excursion to Rich-
mond and Easby Abbey, 25th July, 1888. 12 pages. White,
Worksop.
Yorkshire Legends and Traditions, as told by her ancient
Chroniclers, her Poets and Journalists. By the Rev. Thomas
Parkinson, F.R.H.S., Vicar of North Otterington. London,
Elliot Stock, 1888. pp. xii., 244.
Here is a delightful book for the Folk-Lorist. The compre-
hensiveness of the work may be judged from the list of con-
tents. The first section is connected with Early Yorkshire
previous to Norman times; the second relates to Monastic
legends covering ninety pages ; the third records the Satanic
legends ; the fourth expatiates on Ghost stories ; the fifth on
Mother Shipton ; the sixth on Dragons; the seventh on Battles;
the eighth on Wells and Lakes ; and the ninth section gives ft
miscellaneous assortment. Although most of these are well
known to the Folk-Lore student, and many of them have
appeared in our Folk-Lore section, we gladly welcome this
beautiful hand-book, as a well-arranged and well-written re-
pertory, occupying a place no other Yorkshire book filled. The
careful touch of the antiquary and poet may be noted in every
story. We shall also welcome the second * Wainload * already
collected. The price of the volume is 5s. 6d.
Howden Nonconformity. A Manual of two centuries of local
Free Church History. By the Rev. E. Goodall, Congregational
Minister. Howden, G. 0. Ayre, 1880. 76 pages. Frontispiece
of Stephen Arlush's Home. Price Is. 6d. May be had from
Mrs. Goodall, Morley.
This little book is of great interest to the nonconformist
historian and the local topographer. The account of the Rev.
Joshua Wilkinson (1781-1888,) is particularly interesting, and
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 51
deserves to be reprinted as a memoir of a Yorkshire worthy, a
striking contrast to his predecessor, Mr. Foljambe.
Abound Settle. A Holiday Book. By T. E. Pritt, Author
of " North Country Flies," " The Book of the Grayling," &c.
Seven Illustrations by the Meisenbach process. Settle, Graven
Printing Co., Ld., 1888. pp. viii., 91.
A book from the pen of the Yorkshire Post Angler cannot
be dull nor uninstructive. With Mr. Brayshaw's antiquarian
note books at hand, Mr. Pritt has given us a pleasant evening's
reading, and a true holiday book, welcome to the increasing
number of visitors to that cnarming locality. The illustrations
include Settle, Settle Market Place, Giggles wick Church,
Scaleber Foss, Gordale Scar, Kilnsey Crag, Catterick Foss,
and facsimile of Oliver Cromwell's autograph at Malham.
Walker's Guide to Wharfedale. Upper and Lower Wharfe-
dale: Illustrated. By Fred Cobley, Author of " On Foot
through Wharfedale." Otley, W. Walker & Sons, 1888. 166
pages. Is.
This is the best shilling's worth we have seen of a Yorkshire
Guide Book. In the first place Mr. Cobley has an intimate
knowledge of his ground and its associations, in the next place
he has gathered more than fifty good illustrations, and thirdly
the ' get-up ' is worthy of the old firm whose name is almost
synonymous with Otley.
The Antiquary. Vol. xvii. Jan. -June, 1888. London, Elliot
Stock.
Much as we have lauded the previous half-yearly volumes,
the present issue strikes us as being increasingly interesting.
We fail to find a superfluous or dull page in it. A few more
Reminiscences, like those of our old friend Dr. Rendle, would
be a boon to all folk-lorists and antiquaries.
The Return of the Guards, and other Poems. By Sir
Francis Hastings Doyle. London, Macmillan, 1888. pp. xiii.,
844.
That the Poet and the Scholar are manifest in every line of
Sir Francis Doyle's book, need not be enforced, and we are
pleased that the ex-Poetry Professor at Oxford consented to
their re-printing, with additions. He was born at Nun Apple-
ton, August 22, 1810, and died June 8th, 1888. His last work
was issued in 1886, entitled — " Beminiscences and Opinions."
Modern Freemasonry as a Social and Moral Reformer. A
Lecture delivered at Hull, March 2, 1888, by J. Ramsden Riley
[of Bradford.] 1888. 14 pages. Ded. to Bro. Thomas Denby.
The high tone aimed at speaks well of its writer, and all
members of the craft, as indeed that greater brotherhood — the
fiuman race, must profit by a perusal of this lecture.
52 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The Elocutionist, edited by Edwin Drew, 4d. monthly, is in
its seventh year of existence. London, Wyman & Sons.
The Wbiteb and Reader, a monthly review of new books.
No. 1, August, 1888, though printed at Preston and published
in London, seems to have an Editor resident in Yorkshire.
Mr. Henry Frowde, of the University Press, Oxford, an-
nounces a Collotype facsimile of MS. Junius 11, commonly
known as the Gaedmon MS., 282 folios (a quarter of which are
blank), 51 illustrations, in 12 parts, at 10s. 6d. per part.
Archbishop Usher gave this inestimable MS. to Junius, who
left it to the Bodleian in 1678. It contains parts of poems on
the stories of Genesis, The Temptation, Exodus, Daniel, the
Fallen Angels, descent of Christ into Hell, his resurrection,
ascension and the Last Judgment. They were all once gener-
ally ascribed to Caedmon of Whitby, who flourished in the
latter half of the 7th century, owing to their agreement in
subject with poems which Beda (Eccl. Hist.) states to have
been composed by Caedmon. Modern criticism shews that
only a portion of the poems can be considered as early as 750,
and that the date of the MS. is near the year 1000. It is,
nevertheless, almost unsurpassable as the most ancient relic
of our National poetry and language. Besides its linguistic
value, the MS. has a remarkable artistic and archaeological
interest, as being largely illustrated with drawings which afford
a curious and instructive display of the art and customs of the
period. The specimen collotype sent us is quite a study in
itself. The MS. is about 12} in. by 7J. Complete editions of
the poems were printed by Junius in 1655, Thorpe in 1832,
Bouterwek in 1849-54, and Grein in 1857. A copy of the
illustrations appeared in the Archaeologia, 1838, Vol. xxiv.,
and in a separate form ; and some of them had formed subjects
of engravings in 1754. Now, (if subscribers are forthcoming,)
the text and illustrations will be given to perfection.
Histoby and Guide to the Buins of Mount Grace Priory.
Compiled by C. W. Smithson. Price 2d. Northallerton, W.
B. Smithson, 1888. 2nd edition. 24 pages.
A complete little history for visitors, and the only suggestion
we make is that a ground plan and illustration be added. St.
John's Well, or the Wishing Well into which bent pins (for the
want of crooked sixpences ?) are cast by young ladies wlio km*
to get a good husband; Prior Nicholas Love's translation of
Bonaventura's Mirror of the Life of Christ, now in the British
Museum, and a MS. once belonging to Mount Grace, entitled
Speculum Spiritualium, preserved in York Minster Library , are
referred to.
Armstrong's Habbogate Almanack, 1888.
Armstrong's Directory of Harrogate and District, 1887-&
Price 1/6. [Pub. every alternate year.]
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 58
Armstrong's Harrogate Railway Guide. Monthly, Id.
Armstrong's Harrogate Hand Book and Visitors' Vade
Mecum, with Appendix edited by Dr. G. W. Piggot, and a Map
of twenty miles round Harrogate. Price Is. Printed and
published by J. L. Armstrong. 100 pages. The cover says —
44 6th edition, price 6d."
These are very useful publications.
Ducks and Green Peas. A Tale of the Queen Hotel, Harro-
gate. Price 2d. 16 pages. Harrogate, J. L. Armstrong,
Princes Street.
This is a reprint of the well-known pamphlet, and founded
on an incident of 1767.
Illustrated Guide to Enaresborough. 28 pages. Abel
Heywood, Manchester.
The illustrations are worth the penny.
A Difficult Lancashire Place Name [Todmorden]. By
Abraham Stansneld. Manchester, 1884. Reprinted from the
" Manchester Quarterly." 16 pages.
Moss-Gatherers: A Lancashire specimen. By Abraham
Stansneld. Reprinted from the " Manchester Quarterly,"
1882. 14 pages.
Mr. Stansneld abandons the Tod = fox theory, and pleads for
dothar, a stream, but we differ from him in the latter conclusion,
for we have one or two Todhoes having no relation to streams.
The Moss-GaUterers is an interesting memoir of John Noweil, of
Stansfield, a Yorkshire specimen rather than " a Lancashire
specimen." We are not more pleased with the fine description
of Todinorden or Upper Calderdale scenery, than with Mr.
Stansfield's learned account of the unostentatious muscologist,
after whom Mitten named the Nawellia curvifolia, Schimper
named ihe Zygodon NowelHi, and Moore named the Lastrenmon-
tana Ntywelliana. This working-man joined with Baines and
Baker in the Flora of Yorkshire, published in 1854. He died in
1867, and rests in Gross-stone Churchyard.
The History of the 2nd West Biding of Yorkshire Engineer
Volunteers, from 1861 to 1887. A Souvenir of the Jubilee
Year. By Qr. Master Fredk. Green. Leeds, Julian Green, 8,
Albion St., 1887. 68 pages, portrait of Col. W. Child.
This is a closely printed account of the formation and history
of the Corps, and we commend such publications, which will
gain interest as time passes. Such promptitude in rescuing
data is commendable.
With new literary ventures, Bradford is well to the front.
No. 1 of The Babbit-Keeper and Show Reporter, a well-
edited, illustrated weekly, price Id., appeared on June 7th,
1888. 16 pages. Printed at the Express Office, Wakefield, but
published at Penny Bank Buildings, Bradford.
54 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Miss Edith Lupton recently tried an educational war-cry,
entitled "The School Board Echo," (No. 1, April 27, ±d.) which
lived three weeks, and Mr. James Bartley, a democratic Demos.
No. 1 of a penny weekly newspaper— Tlie Bradford Eastern
Star, appeared July 14th. The Yorkshire Review of Politics,
Society, Literature and Art, No. 1, dates from Saturday, July
21st, 1888. Price Id. W. Reid & Co., Park Lane, Leeds.
Semerwater: A Legend of Wensleydale, by C. Horner.
Leeds, Goodall and Suddick, 1887. 21 pages.
This is the well-known story of
" Semerwater rise, Semerwater sink,
And cover all save this lile house,
That gave me meat and drink,"
and Mr. Horner has clothed the legend in a truly poetic garb.
Yorkshire Biography — Joseph Kichabdson — Reprinted from
Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Revised and extended by J. G. S.
Price 6d. London, H. Gray ; Bingley, T. Harrison ; pp. ii. 84.
Such memorials are certain to be more useful and permanent
than costly marbles, which are too apt to be removed into some
dark steeple.
The Life and Death of Mother Shipton, with the whole
of her remarkable prophecies, newly collected, and historically
explained. Strangely preserved amongst other writings be-
longing to an old Monastery in Yorkshire. New Edition.
Knaresbrough, Parr, 1881, 60 pages, with rough wood-cut of
Dropping Well, 6d.
Although we beg to state our belief that the prophecies were
no prophecies at all, but written after the fact, and that the
preservation in the Yorkshire Monastery is a deliberate lie, we
can commend this little book to the curious. Perhaps it would
spoil the story if the publisher were to add the advice — Read,
but do not believe.
Life and Trial of Eugene Aram for the Murder of Daniel
Clark, of Knaresbrough, who was convicted at York . . • 1759
. . . with Notes by Norrison Scatcherd, Esq., also the Dream
of Eugene Aram, a poem by Thomas Hood, Esq. Knaresbrough,
Parr, 1878. 64 pages, with portrait, 6d.
We gladly add this notioe of a reprint of Aram's life to our
numerous list of Aram bibliography, (pp. 58 — 55, Vol. I. Y.B.)
Much care has been taken in arranging the notes from
Scatcherd's tracts.
We have also to add a Knaresbrough copy of the " Trial,"
with Uood's poem, 86 pages, n.d. Also a London printed
edition of the Genuine Account, 16 pages, 1882. Also, "Tl>*
Blood of the Innocent calleth loudly for vengeance, exemplified
in the discovery of the murder of Daniel Clark, fourteen years
after it was perpetrated by Eugene Aram." 86 pages, London,
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 55
1809. Also, "The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer," by
Thomas Hood, Esq., (Author of "The Song of the Shirt"), with
designs by W. Harvey. New Edition. London : David Bogue,
86, Fleet Street, 1846. Price One Shilling. 8vo. 82 pp. 6
inserted plates.
" The genuine account of the trial of Eugene Aram for the
murder of Daniel Clark, late of Knaresborough, in the County
of York," who was convicted at York Assizes, August 8, 1759,
before the Honourable William Noel, Esq., one of His Majesty's
Justices of the Court of the Common Fleas. To which, after a
short narration of the fact, is prefixed ; an account of the re-
markable discovery of the human skeleton at Thistle-Hills,— a
detail of the judicial proceedings from the time of the bones
being found, to the commitment of Richard Housman, Eugene
Aram, and Henry Terry, to York Castle ; — The depositions of
Anna Aram, Philip Coates, John Yates, &c. — The examination
and confession of Richard Hou6man. The apprehending of
Eugene Aram at Lynn in Norfolk, with his examination and
commitment. To which are added: The remarkable defence
he made on his trial ; his account of himself, written after his
condemnation, with the apology, which he left in his cell, for
the attempt upon his own life. All taken immediately from
the original depositions, papers, &c, York. Printed by A.
Ward for C. Etherington, Bookseller in Coney Street, 1759.
The Life and Wonderful Adventures of John Metcalfe,
commonly called Blind Jack, of Knaresbrough, who lost his-
sight in his infancy, yet became eminent as a musician, as a
soldier, a guide over the then unenclosed forest, a common
carrier, a builder of bridges and houses, a contractor for making
turnpike roads, and a skilful player at whist. New Edition.
Knaresbrough, Parr, Market Place, 1877. 72 pages, with
portrait, 6d.
Of all the lives we have seen of Blind Jack, this is the fullest
in detail.
The Hull Illustrated Journal: A quarterly publication,
July 1888, 6d. No. 8.
This number is mainly devoted to Armada Memorials, and
is well written, spiritedly illustrated, and beautifully printed.
Hull, A. Brown and Son, or from Mr. Wildridge, 27, Bond St.,
Hull.
An Account of the Church and Parish of St. Giles, without
Crippleoate, London: By J. J. Baddeley, Churchwarden, of
Chapel Works, Moor Lane, E.C. 220 pages, 88 illustrations,
10s.6d.
St. Giles' is the burial place of John Milton, John Speed,
John Fox, Mattin Frobisher, Glover, the Herald ; and Smyth,
the Chronicler. The topics treated of include the history of
56 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the Parish and Church from 1090, its Vicars, Parish Registers
(1561 — 1700), Monuments, Furniture, Church books, Charities,
the Plague, &c, &c. The whole is beautifully printed with red
borders, and handsomely bound. We can scarcely imagine
how a book of this excellence, in matter and illustrations, can
be made to clear .expenses. It is a model work, and of the
widest interest. There are eight different views of the Church,
twelve engravings of principal monuments, eleven facsimiles of
writing. The engraving of Sir Martin Frobisher's monument
is particularly fine, and two pages of letterpress accompany it.
It is a new monument in course of execution, and about to be
erected as a Tercentenary Memorial of the Armada. Yorkshire
should share in honouring one of its great navigators.
T'Fisher Folk of Filey Bay : Poems chiefly in the Yorkshire
dialect, by the Rev. W. H. Oxley, M.A., formerly Vicar of
Grewelthorpe. 2nd Edition. Scarborough, E. T. W. Dennis,
1888, ls.6d. 4to., 46 pages. Illustrated by the Author and
Friends.
These eight poems give a true picture of Filey Fisher Folk
in the lingo they use, and the numerous spirited etchings, to-
gether with the printer's excellent workmanship, combine in
making the pamphlet a desirable keepsake.
Mr. Frank Peel, Herald Office, Heckmondwike, has issued an
enlarged and illustrated edition of his " Bisings of the Luddites,
Chartists and Plug Drawers," to Subscribers at Half-a-crown.
Mr. Peel has made a special study of these events, and we
venture to predict that the second edition will soon be as scarce
as the first. Two illustrations, 854 pages, 1888.
Mr. G. A. Federer, Bradford, will shortly issue, to Subscribers
only, a volume of Yorkshire Chapbooks ; the first series com-
prising Thomas Gent's scarce pamphlets, — 1. The Life of St.
Winefred ; 2. The Life of St. Robert of Knaresborough ; 8. The
Life of Afflicted Job ; 4. The Life of Judas Iscariot. Price 5s.
Mr. Federer stands amongst the most eminent Yorkshire
bibliophiles, and proposes to give us copies of our scarce
pamphlets. It is impossible for a tithe of the collectors to
obtain the originals, and therefore the outstanding 'nine,' along
with general readers, will welcome this opportunity of studying
Yorkshire literature of last century.
North Country Poets : By W. Andrews, (No. 4, September,
Price 4d.,) is destined to become a popular handbook. It ij
well edited ; the biographies well written, and the poems well
selected ; the work is very neatly printed, and the price within
reach of the poorest. Hull, A. Brown and Sons.
Yorkshire Poets, Past and Present : Edited by Dr. C. F.
Forshaw, Westgate, Bradford, Monthly, Id.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 57
We make no pretensions to poetical abilities, but we do see
the good work that is being done for Yorkshire Poetical Bibli-
ography, Biography, and Poetry, and we wish the work success
until the thousand and one, past and present, Yorkshire Poets
are embalmed in these pages. The same editor announces a
Yorkshire Poet's Birthday Book, at 2s.6d.
Grindletonians : A sketch of this sect will be highly valued.
I have just picked up " A Bundle of Soul-convincing, Direct-
ing and Comforting Truths :* clearly deduced from diverse select
Texts of Holy Scripture Being a brief Summary of several
Sermons preached at large, by that faithful and pious Servant
of Jesus Christ, M. Bodger Breirly, Minister of the Gospel at
Grindleton in Craven.
[Matt, ii., 25, 26.] London : Printed by J. B. for Samuel
Sprint, in litle Brittain, 1677."
In an Epistle to the Beader of three pages, J. C. speaks very
highly of Brierley's character, and says that his followers were
called Grindletonians in scorn, and that he was imprisoned at
York, but acquitted by L. Bishop Tobias Matthews, after
preaching a sermon in the Cathedral, and " after much travel
and pains in witnessing the glad tidings of salvation, ended his
natural life at Burnlaie, in Lancashire, after whose death these
few head-notes of some of his sermons came to my view."
Catalogue of the xxvii. sermons, 8 pages. Sermons, pages
1 — 270. Then follows a poem, pages 1 — 94, the Preface of
Mr. Brierly. There is no leaf missing as this begins on part of
the last sermon sheet.
" I wot not what quaint humour now of late,
To write these numbers, set my Pen agate."
The last word is a bit of real good Yorkshire.
" I was sometime (as then a stricter man),
By some good fellows, tearm'd a Puritan."
******
And now men say, I'm deeply drown'd in Schism,
Retyr'd from God's grace unto Grindletonism.
Grindleton Chapel is in Mitton Parish, but Dr. Whi taker
does not record the Curates so early as Brierley's day.
J.H.T.
W&ashbnxn fjUar* jUanus.
Having only such an acquaintance with the district about
the sources of the Washburn as can be obtained from a perusal
of maps and books, the following suggestions as to the origin
• Taking for granted that the title page tells me the truth.
58 YORKSHIRE NOTE8 AND QUERIES.
of the place-names in the list of "A. Forester/' in the number
for July, oan only have a proportionate value.
1. — Hood-stokth. — Hood, probably a personal name, occurs
several times in the district, e.g., Hood-Crag, Hood-spring,
Hood-gap, Hood House, and Hood-atort/i. Storth is Old Norse
for a plantation of young trees, and so may mean Hoods-
plantation. Other examples are Storiths, Hazlewood, with
Storiths near Bolton Abbey. Storthes Hall, Thurstonland,
near Huddersfield; Storth, and Storth-end, Westmoreland;
and Storth, an Island nr. Norway. Cleasby's Icelandic Diction-
ary gives Storth — 1. A young wood, plantation fcdla $em storth,
to fall like storth. 2. The earth grown with brush-wood. 8.
The name of an Island in Norway.
2. — The Whams. — The word Wham, or Whams, occurs in a
variety of forms in the Teutonic languages and dialects. Eng-
lish, Wham; Scotch, quham, and whaum; Anglo-Saxon,
hwam, andhwaem; Icelandic, hwammr; Old Swedish, kvammr;
Gothic, Svamms; Modern Swedish, and Danish, Suamp;
Suomp, &c. In Scotland it is applied to a wide flat glen,
through which water runs ; and also to a hollow place usually
wet. In Anglo-Saxon, wham, wham is a corner, a district, a
level place in the open fields, &c. In Iceland, a grassy slope
or vale, the level portion of a farm, &c. In Danish and Swedish
it means fungus, a sponge, and then a soft, spongy, boggy
place, a fen. In Anglo-Saxon also the name for a mushroom
or fungus is Swamm. In England whams are, or were origin-
ally, swampy, miry, boggy places, occurring on the moorlands,
chiefly in Lancashire and Yorkshire, north of the Wharfe.
Examples: — Brown House Wham, and Dirty Leach Wham,
Lancashire; and Blowith Wham, Flowery Wham, Foulshaw
Crags Wham, Kills Wham, and White Whams, &c, Yorkshire,
between the Wharfe and the Nidd.
8. — Slade, Slced, Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon, a valley, and
according to Lye, vitt montium convallihus ; a way in the vales
between the mountains. In Early English, an open plain or
sloping vale in or near a wood, or plantation. It does not
occur in Chaucer, but is used by his contemporaries, Gower,
Piers Plowman, and Bobert of Gloucester, and also by the
Authors of Morte Arthur, and the Earlier Bobin Hood Ballads
shortly afterwards. It is omitted by Shakespeare, and ako
by Dr. Johnson in his Dictionary, 1755. It is, however, fre-
quently used by writers in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, especially Drayton, and it occurs in several Diction-
arier prior to Dr. Johnson's, and is added in Todd's edition of
Johnson, Vol. V., 1818, where it is defined, "A flat piece of
ground, lying low and moist ; a little den or valley." And in
the Glossary appended to Bp.* Percy's Beliques of Ancient
£TH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 59
1 breadth of greensward between plough-lands or
Chis definition is given to illustrate the use of the
a ballad of Robin Hood, and Guy of Quisburn.
3S of use in literature : —
44 And bow he olimbeth up the bankis
And falleth into sladis deep." — Gower.
rl Koberd of Gloucestre, as man wythoute fere,
trong eastel of Brystow, that he let hym sulf rere,
ed wel ynou, and also the slede,
ield them both age, the kyng, to thence on Kunhede."
Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle.
e, the editor, explains slede, a valley, in the appended
There is slain in that slope elagre of his hondes,
Sexty slongen in a Slade, of Sleigh men of armes."
Morte Artkure.
44 It had been better of William a Trent,
To have bene abed with sorrowe,
Than to be that day in the greenwood slade,
To meet with little John's Arrowe."
Ballad — Robin Hood and Guy of Gisburn.
triples of Place-Names : — Slade, Slades, Hanging- Slade,
lane, (Rastrick), Sleadsyke, Sleadhall, (Lightcliffe),
waite, Slaidburn, Sledmere, Sleddale, Sledshoe, and
iow, in older books and maps, expanded into Sledge- Shoe
3 Ordnance Surveyors. — Yorkshire,
-de, Sladen, Greenslade, and Bagslate, formerly Bagslade.
ncashire.
iddale, and Weetslade, Westmoreland ; Slade, Devonshire ;
Blade Green, Kent.
— Gapelshaw. — Capel is an old English form of the word
>el, from the Low Latin, capella, and is still found in place-
ts, in England and on the continent ; but as there is no
>ability of there ever having been a chapel here, Gapel-shaw
scarcely be supposed to mean a chapel in the wood,
laple, Capul, are also the names for a horse from the Latin,
>allus through the Old Icelandic Eappal, and are so used by
rs Plowman, Chaucer, and other Early English writers.
41 Then conscience upon his Gaple kaireth forth fast."
" Why ne hast thou putt the Gaple in the laithe."
CJiaucer, Reeves Tale.
Capul is also a name given to a hen or fowl in Old English,
e Helliwell and Wright's Dictionaries. Gapelshaw therefore
lay mean the shaw or wood in which horses found shelter
uring pasturage, or the plantation in which hens or fowls were
sd or preserved. Near Long Preston, in Craven, is Gappleside
louse, and Far Gappleside — the hill side where horses were
pastured probably. Is it possible for Gappishaw to be derived
60 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
from Caput, head, and shaw, the head or highest shaw in the
dale?
5. — Libbishaw. — In some of the northern languages, the
plant Lovage, is called Libbi-sticker, but this could scarcely be
supposed to give name to shaw in which the plant grew.
Libbis was an old English Surname according to Fergnsson,
connected with the German Luiba, and Lieb. May not this
shaw have part of the possession of some person named Libbi
or Libbis ?
6. — Brandrith or Brandreth. — Fergusson gives Brandreth
as a personal name derived from Old Norse brandi, * 'signifying
a torch, a flame, but metaphorically a sword, from its shining
and red counsel." In old authors this word assumes the
various forms of reed, rath, raith, reith, &c, and is used in the
sense of counsel, advice, reason, counsellor, senator, judge, &c.
According to this view Brandreth Crags would be the crags
belonging to or in the possession of Brandreth. Brand the
counsellor, or Brand the judicious, able, swordwielder. Again
Bed, rjord, reith, rath, and ruth, are forms in various dialects
of a word meaning a clearing, a settlement in a clearing, hence
Brandreith or rith, would be applied to a space cleared by
burning. Furthermore in the Celtic languages, Irish, Welsh,
&c, Hath, rhaith, or raith, is the name of a circular, raised
mound or enclosure for defence, and hence an elevated fort, a
stronghold, artificial or natural but generally artificial. Brand-
rith might then be the fort or stronghold of Brand.
In Anglo-Saxon, and Icelandic, Brand, Brandr, Brandreith, is
the name for hearth fire-place, grate, and gridiron, and Mr.
Lucas, Studies in Nidderdale, supposes from this that Brand*
stone-scar, means the Scar or quarry, "from which hearth
stones were dug, and probably still are dug." He does not ex-
plain the meaning of Brandrith Craggs.
7. — Redlish.— Is there or has there ever been anything like
lake, or standing water here ? Our word lake is derived from
the Saxon lac, laca and is found in early English as lace, las
and lish. Deeplish in Lancashire has been variously written
Deeplac, Deeplace and Deeplish.
8. — Fleets.— Ordinarily the word as a substantive is defined
as by Johnson, a creek an inlet of water, from the Saxon fleot,
an estuary, or arm of the sea. The noun is derived from
the verb fleotan, to flow, and conveys the idea of motion to
and fro; fleeting or flitting about. In Promptorium Parvu-
lorum it is defined as a place where "the watyr of the see
comythe and goythe," and the editor in a note says "On
the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk the name is common, and
properly according to Forby, though not invariably implies a
channel filled by the tide, and left at low water very shallow
ITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE JOURNAL. 61
7". I>r. Whitak'er's History of Graven explains
ftat bog," and Carr, "Craven Dialect,11 says "Fleet
Sax., fleot. It cannot be deemed an estuary here, ex-
rom the resemblance to a bay, when the flatt fleet
inclosed by hills. In Suffolk this word signifies a
Bee of standing water**. In this sense the term is
lorth Yorkshire. Kirkby-Fleetham is an example,
> on the fleet or flooded district. The fleets of the
i, Nidderdale, and Craven Moors, are flatt places, for-
Lot now covered with water.
chabd Dyke — In the near neighbourhood are Eochard
Rochard Crags. Can the name have been derived
* nature of the rocks ? Or may not Eochard be a
name ? Fergusson gives Old German Eocco, Euchart,
ilochard, English Eockett and Eoget, as personal names.
Maukin Cross. — Miss Yonge, (Christian Names), gives
and Maukin as forms of Mary the Virgin the mother of
d. Is it possible there may have been a cross here
3d to the Virgin under the name of Malkin ? Other
connect Malkin and Maukin with Matilda originally,
terly being transferred to Mary.
-Pan Head.— Is this Pen-head ? The Top of the Hill.
-Yaud Bones Eidoe. — The word Yaud occurs several
as in Yaud-head, and Grey Yaud, in Ure-dale, Yaud-
ridge, and probably Yord and Eowan Tree Yards, in
fe and Washburn Dales. Mr. Lucas does not mention
articular ridge but of Yand-head, Grey-yand, and Eowan
Yands, he says — "dubious". These are elevated ridges
ed with Crags or loose blocks of stone, and perhaps may
received their name from a fancied resemblance to the
and flanks of a horse as seen from a distance, as the
liarly rounded and hollow topped hills have been named
(miis, saddleback, &c, respectively. Yaud is an old Lowland
,ch and North of England form of the word Jade, a worn
bony horse. Yaud bones ridge may therefore be supposed,
1 its numerous crags to represent a bony old jade.
8.— Pockstones.— Mr. Lucas says from Danish pak a group,
two Danish dictionaries I have consulted the only meaning
en to pak is parcel. Is it not rather derived from pock a
;tule, and then pock-stones may represent the rough uneven
-face of the moor ?
C. D. Habdcastle.
ieds, August 18th, 1888.
0
Saint John's Well, Mount Gbace. — This well is situated in
ie wood at the North East corner of the ruins of Mount Grace
riory, and from which the Monks in former times drew their
62 YOBKBHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
water supply ; it is strongly built of squared stone, walled round
and protected by a picturesque dome of hewn stone* which is
apparently modern. It is known as Saint John's Well, but
young ladies call it the Wishing Wsll, and it is a source of
amusement to them to cast bent pins into the water and then
utter the dearest wish of the heart, which must be done in
silence or the wish will not be fulfilled. An old author, on
visiting the ruins, quaintly says — " What that may be we can-
not pretend to know, and if we knew, durst not presume to tell.
We drank of the water, which is excellent, and whilst doing so,
had the audacity to think that we had
* Mused on ruins grey
With years ; and drunk from old and fabulous wells.' "
c. w. s.
YOBKBHIRE CENTENARIANS.
Inscriptions from the church-yard of Danby, in Cleveland :
Ann Plows died Jan. 28, 1846, aged 96 years ; John Plews, her
husband, died May 14, 1846, aged 101 years. The above were
married seventy-two years.
18, Bagdale. J. W.
Mrs. Mary Hunter, of Howden, died Jan. 81, 1888, aged 104
years. It is stated that her intellect was unimpaired almost to
the last.
Thomas Hall, the hal of Abthinoton Hall. — This hal seems
to have been a contemporary of the noted hals of Kirklees,
Bradford, and Halifax. Is anything known of him, or of the
Halifax hal (Johnny Worrall) whose portrait has been preserved?
" Much cry and little wool," a common Yorkshire saying is
attributed to the hal of Kirklees, and is generally given in foil
in Calderdale : Much cry and little wool, as th'al said when he
sheared t'pig."
o— —
Warley Mat Pole. — A Committee has been formed for erect-
ing a new May Pole in the square at Warley town. The present
Pole, erected by subscription twenty-five years ago, is showing
signs of decay, and cannot with safety be permitted to remain
standing.
Seeing that a May Pole is known to have existed in Warley
since the year 1814, it is felt that it will be fitting to preserve,
on this favourite site, a relic of old times connected with some
of the most pleasing rural enjoyments of our forefathers,
worthily commemorated in prose and verse by English classic
authors of the highest repute. W. Bowers.
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Flambbo' Nominy.— As conveyances run in and out of the
village of Flambro', the children run after them in the hope of
receiving a few coppers. Their nominy is —
Here we are at oor toon end,
A bottle of gin, a penny to lend,
A croon to spend, hip, hip, hurrah !
June, 1888.
i4
tole
Bundle of Yorkshire Chap-Books. — The following (5 inches
by 9£) are from the press of J. Eendrew, Printer, Collier Gate,
York.
(1) The Shepherdess of the Alps, a very interesting, pathetic,
and moral tale. Published by request. Bude woodcut on
title page. 24 pages, on the coarsest paper.
(2) The Seaman's Confidence : A Dialogue between two Sea-
men, after a storm. Bude woodcut of ship. 8 pages.
BUI. " What cheer, shipmate •"
Tom. " I thought we should every man of us go to
Davy JoneB' Locker."*
(3) God's Judgment against False Swearing. Giving an
account of one Mr. Bichards and his wife, of the town of
Horsham, in Sussex, &c. 8 pages, coarse paper.
A raven turns out to be the thief, and the young woman is
released on the scaffold. Notwithstanding this reprieve, the
pamphlet closes with a funeral hymn :
" Since our good friend is gone to rest."
(4) A Key to open Heaven's Gates, or a ready Path-way
lead to Heaven, &c, &c. 8 pages, coarse paper.
o
The Presumptuous Sinner ; or, a Dialogue between a noble
Lord and a poor Wood-man, concerning the Fall of Adam,
with an account how the Nobleman reproved him for his sharp
reflections. To which is added An Agreement made between
them to place the poor man in all the pomps and glories of the
world, which he was to enjoy so long as he abstained from one
thing he had commanded. Concluding with the poor Man's
Disobedience, &c. Doncaster: printed and sold at the printing
office, in French-gate. 8 pages, in rhyme
A Noble Lord of high renown,
As he was coursing up and down, &c.
* * * *
With that he raised up the dish,
But their (sic) was neither flesh nor fish,
But out their (sic) leap'd a living mouse,
Which run from him across the house.
* * * *
This old Yorkshire story has been told under various versions.
# An old expression for " bottom of the sea."
64 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The Preaching Woman ; or an Impostor exposed. A trite
tale. Otley, printed and sold by W. Walker. 1812. Price
One Penny. 8 pages of rhyme on coarse paper.
About some forty weeks ago,
What more or less I do not know,
An hypocritic Woman came
And preach'd in chapel, field, or lane.
* * * *
Some one had made with her too free,
A preacher too, they say is he !
The Heavenly Footman ; or, a Race for Eternal Life. By
John Bunyan. Otley, W. Walker, Market Place, 1813. 8 pages.
The strange and wonderful History and Prophecies of Mother
Shipton. Bude woodcut. Newcastle, M. Angus and Sou. 24
pages.
Chap. I. Of her birth and parentage.
„ II. How Mother Shipton's Mother, &c.
„ III. By what name she was christen'd.
„ IV. Several other merry pranks.
„ V. How Ursula married . . . Tobias Shipton.
,, VI. Her prophesy against Cardinal Woolsey.
,, VII. Some other prophecies.
„VIII. Her prophecies in verse to the Abbot of Beverley.
„ IX. Life, Death and Burial.
The story of Lady Courten, of Mr. John Mortimer, and of
Matthias Dolanscius, who was saved from starving by a little
Bird, which brought a piece of Gold to the Window of the
Prison. J. Todd, printer, Bedale [Price One Penny.] 8 pages
of very coarsest paper.
Friendly Hints to a Servant. Rude woodcut. Easingwold :
Printed and sold by J. Todd. Price one penny. 8 pages of
rudest printing and paper. [Printed after April, 1805.]
An Historical Account of Kirkstall Abbey, near Leeds, in
Yorkshire. Leeds, printed for John Binns. 81 pages on very
coarse paper. 5 inches by 8. 8.
o
Mirfield Hall. — At the west end of the church is a conical
mount, raised by the Saxons, and intended as a place of defence
to the manor house. Immediately adjoining to this hill was
Castle Hall, the mansion successively occupied by the Mirfields,
the Hetons, the Beaumonts and the Armytages. This antique
mansion, after being many years used as a public-house, was
taken down in 1827, and a commodious inn erected on its site,
still popularly called Chapel Hall, though bearing the sign of
" Beaumonts1 Arms." A nearly obliterated date in front of
the hall was read by some antiquaries 1022, by others 1522;
but if, as is supposed, it was the residence of Sir John Heton,
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the founder of the parochial church, higher antiquity than the
sixteenth century belonged to it, and this opinion is counte-
nanced by the following metrical epitome of the history of
Mirfield, transcribed by the Bev. Joseph Ismay from an ancient
manuscript : —
" In time of yore a knight did dwell
At Castle Hall, near Chappel Well,
And Sir John Heton was his name,
A worthy baron great in fame,
Lord of this town, as story tells,
When chappel stood at Chappel Wells.
He got this church parochial made,
And the foundation of it laid
In the same place where now it stands,
Upon a part of his own lands.
Behind the house a mount appears,
A lasting monument of years ;
It was erected by the Danes,
And piled up with wondrous pains ;
A Saxon lord possessed the same
Before the Norman princes came ;
The Normans next possession took,
As doth appear by Domesday Book.
The Beaumonts did the place command,
When Harry Tudor ruled the land ;
The house rebuilt, which ages stood,
And front adorned with carved wood,
By Thomas B,* the owner's name,
Who lived and died in the same.
Bells to the church the living call,
And to the grave they summon all ;
And when by death one gets a fall,
He's neighbour then to Castle Hall."t
Inglebobough Poem. — For the information of collectors of
Yorkshire Books, &c, it might be as well to say that the lines
in the " Scrap Book," mentioned page 16, have appeared as a
pamphlet, which was printed at Kendal by James Ashburner,
a.d. 1781. T. B., Settle.
A peck o' March dust is worth a king's ransom.
April shaars spring May fiaars.
Calm weather i' June sets t' corn i' tune.
September blaw soft till t' fruit be i' t' loft, &c.
I wish to know if Tusser himself originated these sayings, or
only collected what was in general use at the time.
# Beaumont, t A Mirfield proverb.
V.N.Q. F
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
& ftortxcal, fristoricai an& yolk-Jtoxt Sktttfr of
Unansbow' anb its Castle.
By Dr. Watson, with Illustrations by Miss Kate Pabkiksoh.
The moralizings, although perhaps the most important
sections of the poem, as they are undoubtedly the most poetic,
are omitted, because they would occupy too much of our space,
which is specifically designed for such matters only as the
extracts we give illustrate, and because the anonymous work—
" Knaresboro' Castle Yard "—may probably be obtained from
Dr. Watson, Uplands, Sandown, I.W., a native of Doncaster,
we believe.
So drawn to this knarled town, these castle-walls,
Whatever I see my boyish days recalls ;
Where'er I turn something long lost appears
Unchanged, and dearer from the flight of years.
The change is mine.
This ragged keep, and hoar,
Oft fearlessly I climbed and scampered o'er,
And not alone the giddy chase have tak'n
Up where aloft hoarse creaks the rusty vane.
Back to the square that roofs the dungeon-cell,
Whose horrors, ah ! no living tongue can tell,
Where prisoners died, and now where goblins dwell,
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ing till purged away all mortal sin,
till decay its final morsel win, —
special times emerging.
vher, a school-boy band, we came one night,
;ent to see a miserable sprite,—
two perchance, two haunted at that time
da very spot, atoning each its crime, —
Whatever the cause might be, such spectres then
ft sped athwart the path of country men,
or shunned the strictures of the vulgar gaze,
hough since grown shy and reticent in their ways :
ross roads were full of them, and sweet green lanes
tang with the clangour of unearthly chains.
The country's shrewdness failed the people here,
Yorkshire in all save superstitious fear ;
Religious to excess ; like Bushmen prone
To see and quail before the dead and gone ;
" He comes again ! " spoke of some suicide
Spread shadowy consternation far and wide ;
And when 'twas whispered, killed in drunken brawl,
Bird-like, lame Ned perched on the churchyard wall,
A shudder of dismay ran through the town, —
An evil phantom-world might swamp our town I
Prepared we came that drear November night,
The full description conned of either sprite ;
One would appear a grisly form, 'twas said,
Dark, gaunt, gigantic, without face or head,
Move slowly to the summit, then oppressed
With sudden languor sink to quiet rest :
The other, no mere shadow, must have grown
By slow accretions.
A pearly, thin, transparent, tableau bound
In darkness, flitting on a jet-black ground.
When, how, she earned her doom none clearly knew,
But that she oft was seen nought was more true ;
'Twas always near the keep at some dark hour ;
In winter-time when deepest shadows lower ;
At dead of night.
Her shadowy eyes with salt tears seemed to flow ;
Kneeling she bent repentant in dumb show ;
Then, like a thin mist floating through the air,
Slid from the tower and sought the dungeon-square.
By darkness awed we each to each clung near,
And sought with poor forced mirth to banish fear ;
So hand in hand we watched.
But nought was seen, —
Save a dim candle glimmering o'er the green :
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And nought was heard, — save the deep, hashing roar
The mill-stream made as from the race it tore ;
A moving shadow or a rustling sound
Chills the warm blood, and makes the strong heart
bound,
As, late, the traveller, clear discernment lost,
The sighing wind or the white finger-post
Translates into a robber or a ghost.
He, peering o'er the graveyard, feels no doubt
The monumental marbles move about.
Bridget, the butcher's wife,
Regarding gold the dearest prize of life,
Thrice dreamt — some spirit prompts — it must be true-
Beneath a neighbour's cellar, deep from view,
Treasure lay buried, and her avarice
At length would let her only think of this.
Teased, coaxed, persuaded, driven, her husband next
Assailed the owner with a fair pretext,
And bought the place at quadruple its worth,
Bribing the well-pleased tenant to go forth.
The very spot the dreamer marked was tried ;
And then another ; others ; more beside,
But the dear urn so vivid and profound, —
Three times so vivid, — nowhere could be found.
Slowly begin the pariah-bells their chime.
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69
'Twas here with childhood's lightest step I moved ;
This spot in childhood's happiest hour I loved ;
My constant play-ground, field for every sport,
Of hardy games and pastimes gay, resort
To this fair green, an open, free display,
Game circus-folks in exquisite array ;
Their painted clown, with gibes and mimic pranks,
Cozening the laughing crowd to buy his blanks ;
The strolling players here, tinselled and bold,
Danced on their stage, delighting young and old ;
The wicket here was raised ; th' athletic crew
Freed from book-toils spontaneous hither flew :
Adown these slopes with eager haste we ran,
Or sought Jack fly far' s hole, — a highway-man,
Who used a shelter in the rock to find,
As busy housewives tell, the warp who wind,
Chatting among their children, while the loom
Makes rhythmic clatter in an inner room.
When flourished Hugh de Burgh, serfs of the soil
The people were and doomed to hopeless toil ;
Sold with the land, like tools of husbandry,
The sorrowing Saxons knew no liberty,
But flocking to that spot as Bond End known
Herded outside the freedom of the town.
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YORKSHIRE NOTES 1ND QUERIES,
A Time will come, —
A few more generations in their tomb, —
When not a vestige shall remain to show
That such a thing e'er was, razed Pile ! as thou.
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Infinite Time ! How trifling is the span
That points with birth and death the life of man I
Each drop of rain that in each shower distils,
Caught on the mass some little crevice fills,
And softly wears, or frozen, bursts away
The subtle bonds that keep it from decay.
Ere Sailor Bill — who near the Low Bridge kept
A little store to which the invited stepped,
(Himself the inviter, or his tall thin wife
Whose ribbons gay disguised a fretful life)
71
Museum called, like old Don Saltero's,
Filled with aught striking Art or Nature shows ;
A club, a spear, carved soap-stones ; fossils, spars,
Star-fish, sea urchins, shells, with things in jars, —
Reformed and patronised, became the ward
And lawful tenant of this keep and yard :
Ere rose the Sessions-House : ere Carte threw down
The magic cane that polished many a clown
Bright for the desk, the mart or college-gown :
Applied with irony twice cutting when
His bat the culprit better used than pen :
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It
Ere Stbutt the bellman stopped, — with voice as clear
As his own bell or crow of chanticleer :
Ere Stiffback wabbled down to Church no more :
Ere Steam had spoilt the vale it bridges o'er :
Ere dapper Giles, by aureate love o'erthrown,
Beset fair May as Darby might some Joan ;
Ere the poor Publican, — a deed insane, —
By wicked youths was miserably slain,
Who, at a scrowling apparition scared,
Fled off dismayed nor search for plunder dared :
Ere the old Vicar died, courteous and true,
Beloved and honoured his small parish through,—
Whose only fault was hate of doctrines new :
Ere that brave Woman ceased, whose loving zeal
Brought weekly crowds to hear her sweet appeal,
With awe surcharged when picturing things to come.
Millennial raptures and impending doom, —
Ere Will Mockshowman, perfect in his roar, —
His neigh, bark, crow, — his funny tale gave o'er :
Ere that strange couple, pious to excess,
Had ceased to spy the devil though in full dress,
74 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Who, eager for an entrance to their hut
His well-known hoof o'er covered with a boot :
Ere Jemmy Slow the barber left his den,
Where news he sold that travelled weekly then :
Bird-stuffer, angler, herbalist, humourist, aught,
Alike well-pleased lone Jemmy played or wrought ;
Ere Hope the bookseller whose modest stall
Suggested fresh exchange at each fresh call;
Ere hypochondriac John forgot his plaint,
Brought out by solitude when cold and faint ;
Ere that great Act (Reform) was carried through,
As shown in symbol here by one Lamplough,
Who, drunk and coffined, to the bridge was borne,
While Saul's dead-march Bounded from drum and horn;
Immersed and rescued the poor hunchback then
Gaily bedecked was chaired by brawling men,
The clarion shrill, the bugle, fifes and drums
Loud playing — " See the conquering hero comes ! "
Lamplough, half-idiot and half-demagogue,
In some low tap-room left was plied with grog,
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Y0BE8HIBE NOTES AND QUERIES,
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t all these things passed over us, and more
it scattered lie like waifs upon a shore :
)ld Robert tottering on his stick would bend —
1, key 8 in hand, the visitor attend ;
garrulous, here and there, when every place
,s full of things a well-drawn tale to grace,
jike a true artist, master of his craft,
5 on his work fresh beauty to engraft,
77
e would with castellatedjforms commence,
ben talk of scraps and tactics of defence ;
s chronicler the many legends give,
bat in this ancient barony yet live ;
ow the good hermit Robert, known as saint,
he hero was of days both dark and guaint,
fhen the Ascetic led the holiest life,
nd myth and mkacle abroad were rife.
As thus.
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Thus would old Robert these old stories tell :
Explain the morning, noon, and curfew bell:
The peal at eve of market and fair-days,
Once leading travellers through the forest ways ;
Still heard if useless ; and relate beside
Marvellous doings of blind Jack,* the guide
Employed by wayfarers, when roads were not,
Safely to pilot them from spot to spot.
Well I remember would each youngster go
Beside this man whose locks were white as snow,
And, while against the keep-wall he would lean,
Catch all he said of what himself had seen,
And what his sires before him could relate
When war, intestine war, raged in the State :
How, when his Ironsides victorious proved
At Marstou, Cromwell o'er the country moved
• John Metcalfe, page 79-
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m he called hypocrite, tyrant, and vile,
eld by courtly flatterers for long while :
less the lines inscribed on Slingsby's tomb,
met in those stern days a martyr's doom :
wiser now, impartial thinkers can
romwell own a great though austere man,
jeen to seek, of notice unaware,
lance and strength divine in secret prayer :
ter was Lilburn with his soldiers sent,
> three whole weeks in a vain storming spent ;
ichery at last, existing in the town,
nger than force, disarmed the garrison,
ben with his stick he showed the fir-clad spot
Scotton-moor, whence furiously were shot
whizzing balls that round the stronghold raved,
t nigh the brunt of centuries six had braved :
stories charmed the young, amused the old,
sweet romance spiced all the truths he told.
1-omened as of yore, many believe
anguished soul does in that screech-owl grieve ;
, as they sit around their chimney-hearth,
tiile they pause and ope the cottage-door,
1 the lost woman of the wood deplore,
'his is the tale they tell.
A village-maid,
ose humble fortunes careless ease forbade,
mg, fresh and fair, with service well-content,
led with gay hopes, to Belmont-farm was sent
3 kine to milk, the small stock tend and feed,
w in the dairy busy, now the mead,
3 circle of her knowledge small indeed.
r rustic charms her false protector saw,
10, reckless of results, spurned duty's law ;
is sweetly human swift to violate,
d lapse to barbarism as his normal state.
)all me your friend — not master : my reward
catch some smiling token of regard : "
the base tempter, watchful to entice
love's own name the ignorant to vice : —
Erelong the child and mother disappear ;
hen wild suspicion whispers loud her fear :
search is made, an outcry raised around ;
t none responds and nought they seek is found.
But oft, 'tis said, on lands where footsteps swerved
ldom or never, fires had been observed
trly and late, — of stubble, leaves and ferns,
hich a good farmer to rich ashes burns ;
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And these 'tis now believed were means be used
To dissipate his crime, in air diffused : —
Bat thence, dire sentence I was the mother's shade
Into the body of an owl conveyed ;
There doomed to dwell 'till bleached be every stain,
And her true form through penance she regain.
Quick fled the murderer, shunned on every hand,
A wandering outcast from his native land,
To seek, vain hope i upon a distant shore,
That forfeit peace which he could find no more :
[Mother Ship ton, from an old drawing.]
O'erawed by gloomy superstition's power,
And the mysterious beauty of the hour,
On such a night well might weird sisters tune
Their wild enchantments to the full-faced moon,
To beg the triple Hecate's favoring glance,
While nimbly on the scented turf they dance
Concocting charms, in the swung caldron placed,
Or raise a spirit, the magic circle traced,
To do their bidding, or some secret show
That these sharp censors of their time should know,
LTH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 8B
ft, 'tis certain, from observance hid,
witch deformed, old Mother Shipton, did ; —
>se birth and parentage, figure and acts,
3 vulgar marvels were long held for facts ;
> somewhere lived, near yonder limpid spring
parry wealth, o'er rock meandering
iny streams, the Dropping Well to shape,
rusting pendant nest, moss, fern or grape ;
knew or feigned she knew the powers that grow
wolfsbane, rue, mandrake and mistletoe ;
:ata, black dogs, in snakes and spotted toads ;
win demoniac help from Stygian gods.
Few those who haste with fluttering hopes to try
le dark-eyed Gipsy's skill in palmistry,
ho, arch and smart, at wake or country-feast
iffused with joy the bumpkins whom she fleeced,
hile fond young mothers begged her to charm off
beir darlings' wart or thrush or hooping-cough.
Few now seek out the aspects of the stars,
r look above them for portents of wars ;
he farm-yard may be robbed ; pigs, poultry die ;
orses fall sick and cows untimely die ;
asper be jilted by some merry maid
/ho little heeds the havoc of her raid ;
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The good wife, left the whole dark evening, fear
The pretty hostess* curls more than her beer ;
Bat who, for some occult relief, now speeds
Post-haste (as once) to the " wise man " of Leeds:
Faith in such craft has vanished.
Our fathers hence, in superstitions fed,
Like blind men in the streets in chains were led ;
Physics and physiology unknown,
Nature they filled with phantasms of their own ;
Corrupted legends of old Eastern thought
Through ancient Rome to Gothic nations brought ;
Peopling with horrid fiends this smiling globe,
Bedecked in beauty's sweetest, purest robe :
Nidd is the only murmurer. He flows,
Humming the town to slumber as he goes :
Thus the young child, held to its mother's breast,
Is sung by some soft lullaby to rest.
Upstream the fisher with night lines has been,
And gliding from the bridge is dimly seen ;
I hear his heavy, lunging, plunging oar,
And meanwhile all is silent as before :
Farewell, fair Moon ! Ye woodland scenes, farewell
Ye that can peace impart and passion quell !
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85
ntlest of rivers, and sweet vale, adieu !
ituring time has severed me from you :
ou ruined spot, farewell ! Each grove, each plain,
ade-lulled or vocal with the song-bird's strain ;
here contemplation, fostered by retreat,
raits the pensive wanderer t greet ;
youthful scenes, passed from my midnight view,
early joys, a long, a long adieu !
these prevailing throbs no longer dead,
it to their underlying centbe led,
ly Love Divine enkindle every mind,
id a wise faith emancipate mankind !
&a*0n (grit.
—Rev. R. Collteb, D.D.
orn with the battle, by Stamford town,
Fighting the Norman, by Hastings Bay,
arold the Saxon's sun went down,
While the acorns were falling, one autumn day.
len the Norman said, " I am lord of the land,
By tenure of conquest here I sit ;
will rule you now with the iron hand ; "
But he had not thought of the Saxon grit.
DRK3HIHE NOTES AND QUERIES,
<d wife, left the whole dark evening, few
tty hostess* curls more than her beer;
>. for some occult relief, now speedi
ite (as once) to the l< wise man M of Leeds:
in such craft has vanished*
ters hence, in superstitions fed,
ad men in the streets in chains were led;
and physiology unknown,
hey filled with phantasms of their own ;
id legends of old Eastern thought
ancient Home to Gothic nations brought;
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rith horrid fiends this smiling globe,
in beauty's sweetest, unrest robe i
J^Umeri^a sweet vale, adieu t
™*m tme bas severed me from you •
J* WU or vocal with the aoug bird's Si^
*Wito ^sive wanderer to greet •
IfJTOi. along, a long adieu' g
»"« tatli emancipate mankind!
86 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
He took the land, and he took the men,
And burnt the homesteads from Humber to Tyne,
Made the freemen serfs by the stroke of his pen,
Eat up the corn, and drank the wine ;
And Baid to the maiden pure and fair,
" Thou shalt be my leman, as is most fit,
Your Saxon churl may rot in his lair ; "
But he had not measured the Saxon grit.
To the merry green -wood went bold Robin Hood,
With his strong- hearted yeomanry ripe for the fray,
Driving the arrow into the marrow
Of all the proud Normans who came in his way :
Scorning the fetter, fearless and free.
Winning by valour or foiling by wit,
Dear to our Saxon folk ever is he,
That jolly old rogue with the Saxon grit.
And Kett the tanner whipt out his knife,
And Wat the Tyler his hammer brought down,
For ruth of the maid he loved better than life,
And by breaking a head made a hole in the Crown.
From the Saxon heart rose a mighty roar,
" Our life shall not be by the King's permit;
We will fight for the right— we want no more ! "
Then the Norman found out the Saxon grit.
For slow and sure as the oaks had grown
From the acorns falling that autumn day,
So this Saxon manhood in thorpe and town
To a nobler stature grew alway.
Winning by inches, holding by clinches,
Standing by law and the human right,
Many times failing, never once quailing,
So the new day came out of the night.
Then rising afar in the Western Sea,
A new world stood in the dawn of the day,
Beady to welcome the brave and free
Who could wrench out their heart and march away
From the narrow, contracted, dear old land,
Where the poor were held by a cruel bit,
To ampler spaces for heart and hand —
And here was a chance for the Saxon grit.
Steadily steering, eagerly peering,
Trusting in God, your fathers came,
Pilgrims and strangers, fronting all dangers,
Cool-headed Saxons, with hearts aflame.
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d by the letter, but free from the fetter,
d hiding their freedom in Holy Writ,
gave Deuteronomy hints in economy,
t made a new Moses of Saxon grit.
whittled and waded through forest and fen,
arless as ever of what might befall ;
ing out life for the nurture of men ;
faith that by manhood the world wins all.
nting baked beans, and no end of machines ;
reat with the rifle and great with the axe —
ling their notions over the oceans,
3 fill empty stomachs and straighten bent backs.
:t to see chances that end in the dollar,
et open of hand when the dollar is made,
ntaining the meeting, exalting the scholar,
ut a little too anxious about a good trade ;
s is young Jonathan, son of old John,
ositive, peaceable, firm in the right,
on men all of us may we be one,
iteady for freedom and strong in her might.
m, slow and sure, as the oaks have grown
horn the acorns which fell on that old dim day,
this Saxon manhood, in city and town,
Co a nobler stature will grow alway ;
nning by inches, holding by clinches,
Slow to contention, but slower to quit,
w and then failing, never once quailing,
Let us thank God for our Saxon grit !
)em, spoken from the heart of a true Yorkshireman,
by the author at the Forefathers' Celebration in New
r, the 2nd day of December, 1879. At the request of
•d gentleman, we have got the author to write a copy
!Uijjbl*g (gtxahtr fUgisfo:.
first instruments that the Lord sent to declare thq
way amongst us" says an old paper "was William
•y & Thomas Stubbs who came from the Ive-delves
ey & declared the truth about Stanbury, & Christopher
eceived them & their message, then to Oakworth hall
Did Anthony Moore received them & their message,
3 Sabbath day their was a meeting at Exley-head in
belonging to John Beanlands where many was y** day
ed. And from thence they went to Kildwick & had a
; in ye steeple-house on a week-day.
88 TORKSHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Shortly after a meeting was settled bat friends could not
carry their dead to the steeple-house to bury, & as yet a con-
venient burying-place a'wanting, William Brigg died (who
received friends & meetings) so his brother Thomas Brigg
laid his body in his own ground (where our burying place now
is) who walled a small parcell of ground off where he buried
his dead & gave leave to friends to burie their dead for the
space of 82 years. His son Thomas Brigg freely gave it to
friends as it now is & passed it to friends according to law for
the due keeping of it to future ages."
William Brigg died in 1658 and is the first name in the
Register. The burial ground was conveyed to trustees in 1690,
and fresh trustees were appointed as occasion required. In
1828 it was sold back again to the Brigg family and has been
used since that time by them as a private " Sepulchre."
The Register is a fair sized book, bound in pigskin and
in good preservation. The entries are written in various hands
and seem to have all been made at the time. Besides those
relating to births, deaths and marriages, there is a full and
complete account of all sufferings endured by the Friends at
Eeighley from the commencement to the year 1788.
The following lists contain all the names that are in the
book, with the original spelling, but re-arranged and unnecessary
matter omitted.
W. A. B.
Year. Day. Month. Births.
1654 14 4* John Brigg son of William Brigg
„ 26 10 Margaret Brigg dau. of Thomas Brigg
,, 80 10 William Brooksbanke son of John Brooks-
banke
1656 27 10 Hester Bothameley dau. of Jonas Bothom-
ley
1657 28 1 Alverey Jackson son of Alverey Jackson
[p. 28, y.n.q. Ed.]
Sara Brigg dau. of Thomas Brigg
Susannah Brooksbancke dau. of John
Brooksbancke
Robert Taylor son of Thomas Taylor
William Walker son of John Walker
Deborah Dawson dau. of Joshua Dawson,
name given 28th of same month
Jeramy Brigg son of Thomas Brigg
William Waide son of Dyonis Waide
Ellizabeth Eastberne dau. of Jo. Eastberne
Dorathy Brigg dau. of Thomas Brigg of
Coversett hill
" 4th Month would be June.
t»
17
11
If
26
11
9»
19
1
1658
26
8
1659
20
1
1660
21
10
!»
28
12
1661
26
10
1664
8
2
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, Month.
8 Denis Oockshott son of Denis Oockshott
1 Phebe Staveley dan. of James Staveley of
Kighley
9 Thomas Brigg son of Thomas Brigg the
yonger of or neare Coversett hill
1 James Staveley son of James Staveley of
Kighley
5 Jo : Bamsden son of James and Elizabeth
Bamsden
1 Mary Brigg dan. of Thomas Brigg of
Harding
4 Jeramy Bamsden son of James and Eliza-
beth Bamsden
> 12 James Bamsden ditto.
11 Joshua Brigg son of Thomas and Isabel
Brigg was borne at the Intak in Kighley
p'ish
at 8 Grace Pearson dan. of Thomas Pearson of
Fell Lone near Keighley
) 6 Bobert Smyth son of William Smyth of
Clewbanck
5 1 Elizabeth Pearson dan. of Thomas Pearson
0 8 Jerimyah Shackleton son of Richard
Shackleton
4 1 Michael Bamsden son of James and Eliza-
beth Bamsden
2 10 John Widopp son of Joh. Widoupp in
Felloone (Fell-lane)
John Shackleton son of Richard Shackleton
Josep Ambler son of Dinnis Ambler of
Oarleton
Agnes Hird dan. of Jo. Hirdof Braithwaite
Biohard Shackelton son of Bichard Shack-
elton of Harding
John Hird son of John Hird of Brathwatt
Luce Smith dan. of John Smith of Lackock
Thomas Musgrave son of Thomas Musgrave
of Intak
20 1 Hannah Taylor dan. of John Taylor of
Harding in p'ish of Bingley
2 9 Bnth Mand dau. of Timothy and Esther
Mand of Oastlefield in Bingley p'ish.
25 12 William Davie son of William and Hannah
Davie of Whitley-head
8 5 Bogger Shackleton son of Bogger Shackle-
called July, ton of Hardein
22 12 John Brigg son of Jerimie Brigg of Gard
house
7
8
;G
10
.0
9
11
9
9
9
LI
2
L6
8
Yeab.
1692
99
Dat.
28
20
Month
10
1
1698
24
27
9
6
99
5
11
99
14
10
1694
15
1
1695
12
7
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6
12
if
0
8
90 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Martha Mawde dan. of Tymothy Mawde
Alice Davy dau. of William Davy of
Whittley head
Tho: Hird son of Jo: Hird of Braithatt
Elizabeth Wilson dan. of Henry Wilson of
Braithwaite
Moses Maud son of Timothy and Esther
Mand of Castlefield in Bingley p'ish.
Thomas Brigg son of Jeremy Brigg of
Gard house
Marye Shackleton dan. of Richard Shack-
leton of Hardein
Jeremy Brigg son of Jeremy & Elizabeth
Brigg of Gairdhouse near Kighley
Mercy Maud dan. of Timothy and Esther
Maud of Castlefield
Sarah Davie dan. of William & Hannah
Davie of Whitley-head
1696 2 8 Ann Wade dan. of William & Elizabeth
Wade of Bteeton in the p'ish of Kildwick
and county of York
8 Abraham Shackleton son of Richard and
Sarah Shackleton of Hardden
9 Debora Mawd dau. of Timothy & Esther
Mawd of Castlefield
1 David Brigg son of Jeremy & Elizabeth
Brigg at Steeton
8 Hannah Mawd dau. of Timothy & Esther
Mawd of Castlefield
10 John Wade son of William and Elizabeth
Wade of Steeton
8 Timothy Mawd son of Timothy & Esther
Mawd of Castlefield near Bingley
11 Hannah Davie dau. of William & Hannah
Davie of Whitley head
1 David Waddington son of Richard and
Margret Waddington of Calversik hill in
the townshipp of Kighley
8 Thomas Wade son of William & Elizabeth
Wade of Steeton
9 Mary Mawd dau. of Timothy and Esther
Mawd of near Bingley
6 Lidia Davie dau. of Dyonis k Martha Davie
of Reedcar
12 Sarah Davie dau. of William and Hannah
Davie
10 Timothy Mawd son of Timothy & Esther
Mawd of Crossflatt near Bingley
»9
27
1697
10
1699
10
99
22
99
19
1700
27
99
20
1701
28
99
29
99
17
1702
20
99
10
1708
14
fflTH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 91
r. Month.
\ 7 John Coulings eon of Thomas and Sarah
Couling8 of Brumthwaite in the parish
of Kildwick & county of York
) 1 John Binns son of John & Abigaill Binns
of Cragg-top near Kildwick in the county
of York
) 4 Mary Wade dau. of William and Elizabeth
Wade of Steeton, in the p'ish of Kildwick
) 8 William Smith son of Robert and Hannah
Smith of Clough bank
3 5 Thomas Coulings son of Thomas & Sarah
Coulings of Braimthwaite in the parish
of Kildwick & County of York
3 6 Benjamin Bins son of John and Abigail
Binns of Farnhill in the p'ish of Kildwick
D 9 Jonathan & Rebeckali Taylor, Twins, son
. and daughter of Jonathan and Lidia
Taylor of ftavenroid near Bingley
7 10 Joshuah Brigg son of Thomas and Ruth
Brigg of Calversike hill
6 5 William Davie son of William & Hannah
Davie of Whittley head
6 10 Susanna Smith dau. of Bobert & Hannah
Smith of Clough bank in the p'ish of
Kighley
18 8 Joshuah Blaikey son of Thomas and Anne
Blaikey of Utley within the township
of Kighley (about the 11th houre of the
day)
9 8 William Binns son of John & Abigaill Binns
of Cragg-top in Farnhill near Kildwick
6 10 William Wilson son of Thomas and Ellen
Wilson of Law close, within the p'ish of
Kildwick
4 12 Buth Brigg dau. of Thomas & Buth Brigg
of Calversike hill within the township
of Kighley
SO 12 Martha Davie dau. of Dennis and Martha
Davie
28 8 William King son of Henry & Luce King
of Laoock, within the parish of Kighley
1 4 Jonas Binns son of John & Abigaill Bins
of Farnhill cragg-top in the p'ish of
Kildwick
7 9 Joseph Blaikey son of Thomas and Ann
Blaikey of Utley within the Township
of Kighley
92 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8,
Year. Day. Month.
1709 29 8 Anne Coullings dan. of Thomas & Sarah
Coullings of Brumthwaite in the parish
of Kildwick & county of York
„ 7 5 Steven Wade son of William & Elizabeth
Wade of Steeton in the p'ish of Kildwick
„ 28 11 John King son of Henry & Luce King of
Lacock
,, 2 12 Joseph Blaikey son of Thomas & Anne
Blaikey of Kighley
1710 15 8 Martha Bins dau. of John & Abigaill Bins
within the parish of Kildwick
„ 28 4 Robert Smith son of Robert and Hannah
Smith of Clongh bank in the — Kighley
1711 19 8 Joseph Binns of John & Abigaill Binns
within Farnhill near Kildwick in the
county of York
„ 4 7 Kathrine Smith dau. of David & Susanna
Smith of Kighley
„ 2 11 Peter Coullings son of Thomas and Sarah
Goullings of Brumthwaite in the parish
of Kildwick & county of York
1712 28 1 Thomas Blakey son of Thomas and Anne
Blakey of Kighley
„ 81 8 Rachell Brigg dau. of Thomas and Ruth
Brigg of Calversike hill within the town-
ship of Kighley
„ 10 9 Luce Smith dau. of Thomas and Hanna
Smith of Clough-bank in the parish of
Kighley
„ 12 7 Benjamin King son of Henry and Luce
King of Lacock in the parish of Kighley
and county of York
„ 5 12 Elizabeth Davy dau. of William & Hannah
Davy of Whitley head in the parish of
Kildwick
1718 21 2 Mary Leach dau. of Joseph & Sarah Leach
of Lacock in the parish of Kighley
1714 4 4 William Goullings son of Thomas & Sarah
Goullings of Brumthwaite in the parish
of Kildwick
,, 81 5 John Ramsden son of James and Agnes
Ramsden of Braithwaite in the parish
of Kighley
1715 6 1 Mary Smith dau. of Robert and Hannah
Smith of Clough-bank in the parish of
Kighley
„ 7 4 Ann Smith dau. of David and Susannah
Smith of Kighley
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE JOURNAL. 98
t. Month.
d 4 Henry King son of Henry and Luce King
of Lacock in the parish of Eighley
6 12 David Davy son of William and Hannah
Davy of Whitley head in the parish of
Kildwick & county of York
2 3 Hird Bamsden son of James and Agnes
Bamsden of Braithwaite in the parish
of Eighley & county of York
5 5 Hannah Blakey dau. of Thomas and Anne
Blakey of Uttley within the township
of Eighley
1 7 Hannah Lee dau. of John & Sarah Lee of
Braithwaite in the parish of Eighley &
county of York
19 7 Richard Waddington son of Thomas and
Hannah Waddington of Galversike hill
within the township of Eighley
1 8 Thomas Leach son of Joseph and Sarah
Leach of Steeton in the parish of
Eeighley
22 5 Mary Ashall dau. of James & Martha Ashall
of Shann Intak within the townshipp of
Eighley
8 4 Hannah Bamsden dau. of James & Agnes
Bamsden of Braithwaite in the parish of
Eighley
80 7 John Smith son of David and Susannah
Smith of Eighley
28 9 John Lee son of John & Sarah Lee of
Braithwaite in the parish of Eighley
12 10 Martha Blakey dau. of Thomas and Anne
Blakey of Eighley
28 10 John Asholl son of James & Martha Ashall
within the township of Eighley
2 11 Joseph King son of Henry & Luce King of
Lacock within the parish of Eighley
9 4 Sarah Waddington dau. of Richard Wad-
dington Junr. & Mary Waddington of
Eighley
2 6 Hannah Waddington dau. of Thomas and
Hannah Waddington of Galversike hill
within the township of Eighley
8 11 James Bamsden son of James and Agnes
Bamsden of Brathwate in the parish of
Eighley
8 12 Joseph Asholl son of James & Martha Asholl
within the township of Eighley
94 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Yeab. Day. Month.
1720 18 12 John Blakey son of Thomas & Ann Blakey
of Kighley
1721 1 5 Sarah Waddington dan. of Richard Wadd-
ington Jnnr. & Mary Waddingion of
Kighley
„ 25 12 Thomas King son of Henry & Lnee King
of Laoook in the parish of Kighley
1722 22 2 Agnes Ramsden dan. of James and Agnes
Ramsden of Braithwaite in the parish of
Kighley
„ 80 6 Hannah Waddington dan. of John & Lidia
Waddington of Kighley
„ 80 8 David Asholl son of James & Martha Asholl
within the township of Kighley
„ 9 12 Richard Waddington son of Richard Wadd-
ington Junr. and Mary Waddington his
wife of Kighley
1728 7 11 Elijah Lee 6on of John and Sarah Lee of
Ravenroid in the parish or near Bingley
,, 6 12 Sarah Blakey dan. of Thomas and Ann
Blakey of Kighley
1724 24 9 Elizabeth Ramsden dan. of James & Agnes
Ramsden of Braithwaite in the parish of
Kighley
1725 12 2 Mary King dan. of Henry and Lnce King
born at Oakcliff in the parish of Carlton
„ 19 8 William Waddington son of John & Lidia
Waddington of Kighley
17 12 Jonathan Ashold & Sarah Ashold eon & dan.
of James & Martha Ashold of Kighley
1726 27 8 Thomas Blakey son of Thomas and Anne
Blakey of Kighley
,, 20 5 Hannah Lister dan. of Thomas & Hannah
Lister of Oilsthead in the parish of
Bingley
1727 8 2 Esther Maud dan. of Timothy Mand Jnnr.
and Ann Mand of Oanthorp hall near
Bingley
,, 18 8 Lawrence King son of Henry & Lnce King
of Oakcliff in the parish of Carlton
„ 28 4 James Ramsden son of James and Agnes
Ramsden of Braithwait in the parish of
Kighley
,, 11 7 Robert Smith son of William and Martha
Smith of Clongh-bank in the parish of
Kighley
1729 2 1 George King son of Henry and Lnce King
of Oakcliff in the parish of Carlton
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WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 95
y. Month.
U 1 Timothy Maud son of Timothy Maud Junr.
and Ann his wife of Ravenroid near
Bingley
2 11 William Sharp son of William & Mary Sharp
of Eighley
5 12 John Smith son of William & Martha Smith
of Clough-bank in the parish of Eighley
2 1 *Deborah Brigg dan. of Thomas and Judith
Brigg of Laycock in the parish of
Kighley
9 2 Joseph Widdoop son of Daniell and Sarah
Widdoop of Kighley
.2 6 William Maud son of Timothy Maud
younger and Ann his wife at Bavenroid
near Bingley
LO 1 Dennis Ambler son of Dennis & Susannah
Ambler of Silsden in the parish of
Kildwick
27 1 Ann Holmes dan. of Joseph and Sarah
Holmes of Braithwaite in the parish of
Eighley
15 2 A child of William & Mary Sharp of Eighley
was born the 15th day of the 2nd month
and was buryed the 17th day of the same
in the friends' burying place at the
meeting house in Eighley
22 1 Deborah Brigg dau. of Thomas and Judith
Brigg of Lacock in the p'ish of Eighley
10 8 Bethiah Brigg dau. of Joshua and Isabell
Brigg of Calversiko hill within the town-
ship of Eighley
22 2 Mary Smith dau. of William and Martha
Smith of Clough-bank in the parish of
Eighley " (not sent to the monthly
meeting)"
16 7 John Ambler son of Dennis and Susanna
Ambler of Silsden in the parish of
Kildwick
6 12 Joshua Stansfeild son of John and Debora
Stansfeild of Morton in the parish of
Bingley
2 4 Lois Brigg dau. of Joshua & Isabell Brigg
of Calversike hill in the township of
Eighley "(12-15 p.m.)"
10 5 Thomas Brigg son of Thomas and Judith
Brigg of Laycock in the parish of
Eighley
i similar entry (in a hand of earlier date) gives the year as 1733.
96 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
xear Day \iqkttt
1786 16 1 Esther Stansfield dan. of John Stansfield
of Morton in the parrish of Bingley
1787 22 5 Cornelia Brigg dan. of Joshua and Isabell
Brigg of Calversike hill in the township
of Eighley
1788 6 5 Ann Stansfeild dan. of John and Debora
Stansfeild of Morton in the parish of
Bingley
1789 1 8 Paulina Brigg dan. of Joshua and Isabell
Brigg of Calversike hill in the township
of Eighley
1749 24 7 Thomas Brigg son of Joshua and Isabell
Brigg of Calversike hill in the township
of Eighley was born in Kighley
1752 25 8 Joseph Davie son of Joseph & Lidia Davie
of Layoock in the parish of Eighley
1758 21 10 William Davie son of Joseph Davie ALydia
Davie at Layoock in the parrish of
Eighley
1760 27 9 Abraham Davie son of Joseph and Lydia
Davie of Layoock in the parish of
Eighley
1761 80 11 John Aspdin son of George & Sarah Aspdin
in Eighley
1765 21 10 Cornelia Horsefall dan. of William Horsfall
of Howarth & Cornelia Horsfall his wife
at Haworth in the p'ish of Bradford
Marriages and Burials, to follow in next issue.
;o;
Beaumont Tbadition. — Do you happen to know the origin of
the following very old cradle song which has been sung, I
believe, for generations, to a traditional tune by the inhabitants
of the Almondbnry district, and probably in other parts of
Yorkshire.
" Ding dong, ding dong for Beaumont ;
Beaumont's dead and gone ;
Locked under London stone.
Ding dong, ding dong for Beaumont.1'
B.
[It formed part of the chanted sing-song at card-setting
houses in Bastrick, so late as 1850, but had become a mere
jumble of words, the meaning of which was completely lost. —
Ed.]
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Hall is one of the several old farm-houses in
ae-cum-Brighouse, dignified by the name "Hall."
3 not uncommon to find such Halls in any part of
Riding, and many of them are of very ancient date,
by their names, e.g. the numerous Laverack (Layrock,
ton,) Halls. The special distinction seems to have
I from some principle of taxation, or from being the
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
residence of its own yeoman-farmer, or statesman. As to the
name "Granny" I am unable to satisfy myself. Whether
given in derision, like its neighbour " Needless Hall," or from
some descriptive situation, as "gronny," (marshy,) I cannot
state. It is situated in a slack, near the sleads or sladts, on the
boundary line of Brighouse hamlet. It is not mentioned in
Watson's " Halifax," and all I know of its history is confined
to the present century, having passed from Mr. Mark Black-
burn, of Clifton-on-Calder, to his representative Mr. Joseph
Bayner, late Town Clerk, of Liverpool, who sold it on leaving
Slead House, to Mr. Thomas Sugden. The house has been re-
fronted and rough-casted, but the hob-nailed door, the diamond-
shaped flagstone, and a plaster coat-of-arms of Charles H.
(which is also to be found at Brookfoot-house, and probably
indicates a royalist owner,) indicate a residence of some pre-
tensions. Numerous obsolete customs hang about the memory
of the old house, especially the use of milk-sticks, or tallies,
and the fear of letting the fire go out on New Year's eve.
At the distance of a few fields' length was born, and still
resides, Mrs. Sunderland, the Yorkshire Queen of Song ; and
her husband resided, when a young man, at Granny Hall.
Miss Susan Sykes, (giving her maiden name,) is a member of
an old local family. Old Luke Settle, the harmonious member
of a race of blacksmiths, and composer of " Settle," and other
old-time favourite tunes, had a hand in teaching Miss Susan
to sing. I treasure the old "Breeches" and "Cratch" Bible
of the Settles, which from its printing in 1602 passed from
Jonas Rowlingson, 1675, Daniel Blaymires, to Samuel Settle,
of Shelf, blacksmith, to his son John, of Soutbowram, black-
smith, (died at the age of 67,) to old Luke, of Slead Syke,
blacksmith, (died Jan. 23, 1868, aged 84,) whose sons John, of
Kastrick Common, and Jubal, of Slead Syke, both blacksmiths,
are now deceased. T.
BaimstoD Ubarcb, West End.
IB'armston. The Lordship of
Berneston, so called from its Anglo
Saxon owner, is mentioned in
Domesday as belonging to Torchil,
Siward, Bonde and Alchil, who
were subject to the payment of
Danegelt. Sir Allan Monceauz, of
Norman extraction, held the manor
about 1100, and it continued in
the family until Brian de la See,
who died in 1497, the son of Brian,
left two daughters only, and the
elder marrying Sir Henry Boynton
carried the manor into that family,
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99
De la See.
with whom it has remained nearly
four centuries. The Monceaux arms
are, Or, a cross moline gules. John
Monceaux, son of Sir John, died in
his father's life time, at Barmston.
His will, dated 1881, bears this seal
with arms :
Monceaux Seal.
John Monceaux, Esq., whose daughter married Brian de la
See, made his will in 1426. It bears two seals as given here-
under :
too
YOB&8HIRE NOTES AND QUEBIUS,
™^ * nan wa8 Kreat-great-grandson of Peter de la See,
M.P. for Bavenspur Oaa, 23 Edward I. Their arms are,
Argent, two bars wavy, or.
The Bovnton arms are, Or, a fess between three crescents,
gules. The fess was formerly charged with a lion passant, or.
Church Doorway, Barmeton.
Bojnton Arms.
Sir Allan Monceaux probably built the first church, or re*
placed an older one. The above cut represents a late Norman
doorway, preserved at a more recent re-erection. It is now
within the porch. The list of incumbents begins with 1292.
The Manor House, from the most ancient times, was the
residence of the Lords. It was deeply moated on all sides,
and accessible only by a drawbridge. Our view gives the right
wing of the mansion erected by Sir Thomas Boynton, Knt.,
and his son Sir Francis, in Elizabeth's reign. From 1605, the
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
101
family mansion has been at Barton Agnes, and a century later
Barmston Manor House was mostly dismantled, and the
neighbouring farm- houses were built with the materials.
Potdson gives an interesting inventory of the various rooms
and furniture, with cash value, in 1581.
Hull Mansion House. This house in Lowgate, was formerly the
residence of Alderman Jarratt, and was so occupied for fifty-six
if v if1
Hull Mansion House.
?ears, when it was pulled down to be replaced by the present
•own Hall. T. T. W.
Hilston, near Tunstall, in the East Riding, is on the highest
point of the cliff, about eighty feet above sea-level. One of the
Storr family built a brick, octagonal tower in 1750, which
serves as a noted landmark, and from which there is an ex-
tensive sea prospect. The tower is situated a little north of
the village, and is known as Hilston Mount. The Storr family
settled at Hilston about 1600. Drogo held the manor at the
time of Domesday Survey, 1085, in succession to Murdoo.
The name appears as Heldoveston, and in 1272 as Hildofston,
evidently from an early owner.
102
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
St. Qnintin.
St. Qnintin.
Brandesbubton Church is
built of sea-cobbles and brick.
It is an ancient, decorated, per-
pendicular edifice. Torre gives
a list of incumbents from 1820.
Brantisburtone, from Brant the
original possessor, passed to
Suuen, Ulf, Ulchil, Waih,
Chilvert and Arnui in Saxon
times, and to Drogo under
Domesday. The St. Quintins
held it from 1200. Their arms
are, Or, three chevronels gules,
a chief vaire, argent and azure.
In the church is an ancient
niche, the purpose of which is
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
108
unexplained. An old
shield of the Fitz-
hughs (a chief or,
azure three chevron-
els braced,) is to be
seen on the church.
At the hamlet of
\ Moor Town are the
remains of a moat
^ indicating a former
^ mansion of some
Niche.
Fitz-Hugh.
vil
^ *
&M,. . Ou.er Bank rfC^
Finn of Moat,
pretensions. Visitors were formerly told
that Moor Town supported its own poor,
an easy affair when there was but one
Jgfe :0^ cottage in the place.
104
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 105
%\ft (Earlg Historg of |jotol*2.
By W. Palsy Baildon.
The early history of the Manor of Howley seems to be un-
usually obscure. The earliest mention I have found of the
name is in 1889, and prior to that date there appears to be
nothing on record directly concerning Howley. There is,
however, considerable reason for believing that Howley was
merely a dependency of the more important Manor of Morley,
and that the history of the one is the history of the other.
The grounds for this belief will, I think, sufficiently appear in
the sequel, where it will be noticed that from 1U89 to the end
of the sixteenth century, the two manors have precisely the
same history. I shall therefore address myself first to the
early history of Morley.
In the Domesday Survey, we are told that Dunstan held six
carucates in Morley T. R. E.,*.and that Ilbert holds them now.
Whether Dunstan continued in possession as under-tenant to
Ilbert [de Laci], or whether Ilbert had granted the Manor to
some other under-tenant to the complete dis-possession of
Dunstan and his family, or whether Ilbert held in demesne, we
have no means of ascertaining.
Here, as in most other cases, there is a woful gap between
the Domesday Survey and the next record. Early in the
Xlllth century Morley was held jointly by Ralph de Insula
[or de Lisle] and Robert de Beston (a). Ralph de Insula and
William, his son, [or brother, Burton.] gave 12 oxgangs of
land in Morley to Nostell Priory, (b). William is more likely to
have been the son than the brother, though of course the latter
is possible.
William de Insula left two daughters and co-heirs Eufemia
and Helewisia; of these, Eufemia married Nicholas de
Rotherfield, and Helewisia married Marmaduke Darel (c).
Smith gives the date 1226 for the former marriage, (d) which
is likely enough, but he gives no authority.
In 1227, there was a fine levied between the two ladies and
their respective husbands, touching lands in Morley and else-
where, (e.) This probably dealt with the partition of the
lands, and Morley went to the Rotherfields.
Hunter gives a small pedigree of the Rotherfields (e), which
he took from Gascoigne's great MS. of the Wentworth pedigree;
but Hunter suspects this to be in some points erroneous.
(a.) Smith's History of Morley, 88. • Time of King Edmund.
(b.) Burton, Mon. Ebor., S06.
(c.) Harl. MS., 797, fo. 89.
(d.) Pero27.
(e.) South Yorkshire, II., 184.
106
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
How ley— Cellar Ruins.
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107
The pedigree is as follows : —
Sir Nicholas de Botherneld=f=Eufemia, d. & co-h. of William
| de Lisle.
Albreda, d.
of=r
Sir Peter de B. =p Agnes, <
1. of Sir John
Oliver
1
1 WiUiamWallis;m.
D'Eincou
rt 1
SirWi
1 also Sir WilliamClarel
Stephen
UiamdeB. Dionysia John William,
Bector of
=^=...
m. William =
p... Dean of
the
Went worth,
York, 1278
Church
of
(more pro-
of Helagh,
Wentworth,
bablyArch-
5Edw.ni.
Woodhouse
deacon of
Bichmond
and
Treasurer
of York.
J.H.note).
a dau., m.
a dau., m.
a dau., m. a dau., m.
Sir Adam John
Giles, son
William
Thomas the son of
de B., slain
of the
Daivil.
le Pover. the Vicar
died with- by
parson of
(Constance)
of
out issue. John
Hickleton
Hickleton.
Tyas.
(Elizabeth)
I believe, with Hunter, that there are several errors here,
and I will point them out later.
In 1284-5, Peter de Botherneld is recorded, in Kirkby's
Inquest, to have lands in Hickleton, Austhorp, Sutton, and
Wilberfoss. (f) The returns for the Wapentake of Morley are
unfortunately incomplete, but he probably held Morley as well.
In 1291, Peter de Botherneld, son of Nicholas and Eufemia,
quit-claimed to the nuns of Wilberfoss all his right in two ox-
gangs of land in Newton-on-Derwent, which Eufemia, his
mother, had given them, (g.)
In 26 Edw. I., 1297-8, Peter de Botherneld, William and
Balph de Bees ton, and others, were found by the assize to have
unjustly disseised the Prior of S. Oswald, of Nostell, of the
common of pasture in Morley, which belonged to his free tene-
ment in the same town, (h.) Peter was dead apparently in 81
Edw. I., 1802-8. Albreda D'Eincourt survived him, and we
find that "Dns. Petrus de Botheresfeld " and "Dna. Albreda
" uxor ejus " were buried at the House of Friars Preachers of
Pontefract. (i.)
(f.) Snrtees Soc., Vol. 49, pp. 36, 47, 49, 87.'
(g.) Barton, Mon. Ebor., 417.
(h.) Harl. MS., 797, fo. 39d.
(i.) Col. Top. et Gen., iv., 74.
108
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
William de Rotherfield, son of Peter, died either before his
father or very soon afterwards. He got the Hickleton property,
which William Deyvile and Giles de Hickleton (see pedigree,
supra) were holding in 81 Edw. I. (j.)
John de Rotherfield, son of Peter, was holding the Sutton
property in 81 Edw. I. (k.)
The Morley estate was, in 81 Edw. I., held by Albreda de
Rotherfield, widow of Peter, probably in dower : she held 15
car. in Morley and Driglington of the Castle of Pontefract, of
which Sir Simon Warde held in Driglington 6 car. ; she also
held 2 car. in Austhorp (1.)
In 9 Edw. II., 1815-6, Albreda was evidently dead, and
John had succeeded to her property at Morley; for in that
year the Receiver of the Honor of Pontefract accounted for
1 j*'->r.rj,, it
Pg^toarf ; j
Howley— Old View.
58s. 6d. for the relief of John de Rotherfield for one half, one
eighth, and one sixteenth of a Knight's Fee in Morley, Drig-
lington, and Beeston (m.) In the Nomina VMarum, of 9 Edw.
II., also John is returned as owner of Morley (n.)
The next note I have is in 88 Edw. III., 186! when John de
Rotherfeld, who died on " Sonday next after the fest of the
Epiphany a0- 87 E. 8,n held 2 Knights' fees in Qweldale,
Sutton, Morlay, Austhorp, and elsewhere, of the Honor of
Pontefract (o.) This may have been the John above mentioned
son of Peter, but the interval seems a very long one, and I
%
.) Surtees Soc, Vol. 49, p. 282.
:.) ibid, p. 285.
,) ibid., p. 227.
(m.) Harl. MS., 797. fo. 89 d ; Smith, 28.
(n.) Snrteee Soc.. Vol. 49, p. 860.
(o) Harl. MS. 797, fo. 89.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 109
surmise that there ought to be two Johns. This view is
supported by the fact there were three John de Botheresfelds
buried at Pontefract (p.) The middle one of the three is
described as " filius p'dicti Johannis."
Whether the John who died in 1864 was son or grandson of
Peter, he was succeeded by his son Adam, who in the same
year paid £10 for his relief (q.) I cannot say if this Adam is
identical with the Adam given in Hunter's pedigree, who is
said to have died without issue. The estates seem about this
time to have descended to an heiress called (probably after her
ancestress) Albreda. I think she must have Jbeen the heiress of
the above-named Adam, but I have no direct evidence of this.
If Hunter is correct when he says Adam died childless, Albreda
was probably his sister. Smith following what is obviously
a clerical error in Harl. 797, calls her Albredus. That MS.
unfortunately does not record the date when "John Mirfield,
William Beeston, and Christopher Ward paid a relief of £5 for
a Knight's Fee in Morley, Beeston and Driglington, which
Albredus (sc. Albreda) de Botherfeld sometime held (r). But
this relief was probably long after the time of Albreda, for Sir
Christopher Ward died in 1522, and the John Mirfield may
have been the John, son of Bobert, of whom I shall have
something to say later on. I have one more note about
Albreda. In a Survey made in 19 Eliz., it is said that she
formerly held one Knight's fee in Morley, Beeston, and Drig-
lington, which was subsequently held by Thomas Gray, Adam
de Mirfield and Ralph de Beeston. (s.)
We next find that Hopkinson records a marriage between a
Mirfield and a Botherfield, and, considering that shortly after
the time at which we have now arrived, viz. in 1389, Adam
Mirfield was " of Howley," this is of the highest importance.
He says : — " John Mirfield son and heire of Willm was w^
Willm Beiston, Esq., & Sr Christopher Ward, Knt. seized of
lands amounting to a whole Knight's Fee in Morley, Beiston
& Drighlington, married daughter and coheire of Albred
of Botherfield, had issue Sr Willm." (t.) Hopkinson's pedigree
of Mirfield is hopelessly, ludicrously, incorrect in the earlier
generations, but as this marriage fits in so well with the other
known facts, I think we may assume that he is right here, and
that one of the early Mirfields married a co-heiress of the
Botherfields. But the husband of Albreda (or Albreda's co-
heiress) was certainly not the John given by Hopkinson.
(p.) Col. Top. et Gen., iv., 74.
(q.) Harl. MS. 797, fo. 39 d.
(r.) fo.40.
(s.) post, Appendix, I.
(t.) Harl. MS., 4630, pa. 402.
110
YORKSHIRE NOTE8 AND QUERIE8,
WITH YOBKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. HI
In 1389, as I have already stated, Adam Mil-field describes
himself as "of Howley," in a charter, dated 10th February,
relating to property in Shibden. (tt.)
The father of the Adam Mirfield, who was " of Howley " in
1389, was Sir William Mirfield, Ent., (u.) and he it was, as I
believe, who married the heiress of Botherfield. The date
tallies exactly, Adam de Mirfield would be called after his
uncle, Adam de Botherfield, and he would thus naturally be
the first of his family at Howley, as he would inherit it from
his mother.
Sir William Mirfield, the father of Adam, paid 20s. as a
" Ghivaler " in the Poll Tax of 2 Bic. II. and six of his servants
paid 4d. each, (v.) Adam de Mirfield at the same time was
living at Elland, and he paid 4d. (w.) He was probably in the
household of his relative, Sir John Savile, of Elland.
This Adam had a son, William, to whom Howley no doubt
descended, (x.)
William Mirfield had two sons, Oliver, and Bobert who
married the heiress of Tong, and founded the family of Mirfield
of Tong, the heiress of which married Henry Tempest. William
Mirfield appears to have settled his property (including Howley)
on his eldest son, Oliver, in tail; with remainder to his younger
son, Bobert in tail ; with remainder to his own right heirs. I
have no direct evidence of this settlement, and my reasons for
assuming its existence will appear later.
Oliver Mirfield, eldest son of William, succeeded on the death
of his father. He married Isabel, daughter of Sir John Savile,
of Thornhill, by his wife, Alice, daughter of Sir William
Gascoigne, of Gawthorpe. Oliver died in 1461, and his will is
thus given by Dodsworth : —
"First I will that all my ffeoffees, that are enfeoffed in all
my lordships, lands, tenemta, in the townes of Mirfeld, Dighton,
Egerton, Gleydeholt, Heyton, Hopton, Batley, Howley, Morley,
GUdosome, Bolton, Chekingley, Lede, Newstede, Halifax,
Wakefeld, West Bretton, with their appurtenances, make an
estate of them, &c, to William Mirfeld, my sonne, and to his
heires of his body begotten. And allso I will that my wife
have xl. markes in the name of her dower for to be taken in
the Townes aforesaid, except the mannr of Holay, which I will
my sonne have when he comes to age. Allso I will that my
daughters have eder G. markes. (y.) His wife, his cousin
Bobert Nevill, and his brother John Sothill, were executors.
I cannot explain these relationships.
(tt.) Br. Mus., add. chart 1571& ~~ "
(u.) Harl. MS. 797, fo. 38.
(w.)
(y.
Y. A. <fe T. J., vi., 287.
ibid., 291.
Harl. MS., 797, fo. 88.
Y. A. A T. J. vii., 128, 261.
112 Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Oliver's wife, Isabel Savile, survived him and married Sir
John Ashton. In the Visitation of Yorkshire made in 1612,
the second husband's name is given as "John Melton of Aston";
after the lapse of time, confusion might easily arise between
" Ashton " and " Melton of Aston." In 1478, Sir John Ashton
petitioned the King in Parliament respecting an assault made
on his house at Howley, by John Mirfield and others, in 1470.
g,.) This petition does not help us forward at all with the
istory of Howley. Sir John speaks of "his manner and
dwelling place ef "Holley in the Towne of Morley," but he had
no rights there except jure uxoris. The explanation of the
affray is I think as follows :
Oliver Mirfield, it will be remembered, laid it down in his
will that his widow was not to have Howley in dower, but that
it was to become the property of his son William as soon as he
should come of age. I do not know if William was of age in
1470, but he was probably nearly so, if not quite, as his eldest
son was born in 1480. The two principal offenders against
whom Sir John Ashton petitioned were John Mirfield and
Richard Leeds, both late of Pontefract. Now, Oliver Mirfield's
brother, Robert, had a son John, and I venture to suggest the
following explanation — Sir John Ashton lived at Howley with
his wife Isabel, Oliver Mirfield's widow, during tho minority of
her son William Mirfield ; that on William attaining his full
age, Sir John refused to give up possession in accordance with
the terms of Oliver Mirfield's will ; that William Mirfield tried
to gain possession by force ; and that as part of the scheme,
William's cousin, John Mirfield, and others kidnapped Sir
John Ashton and took him off to Pontefract Castle. I would
call special attention in this place to the words used by Sir
John in his petition, as to the terms on which he was released*
viz : — Uppon promys and affirmans by mouth made by hym to
the said Riottours in M. li. to be bounden that he should abide
the rule of such persones as they wold be agreeable unto." (The
italics are mine."
No money was extorted from Sir John ; he was simply bound
in a penal sum of £1,000 to submit the differences to the
arbitration of some persons to be agreed to by the Mirfields.
To return to Isabel. She survived her second husband, and
died in 1488. She was buried at Wakefield, where she pro-
bably removed after her son came to Howley, and Glover
records the following inscription on her tomb : —
"$ic facet Qna £**b*Ua gUljtfton vibvut tixtptr
vtvov $oi}anni0» militis, et Jftater $Pmi $ttitrf*lfc,
ntilitjg, qttcc obit ttf Me jKiati rnccccluxntiii}.
(a.) Bolls of Parliament, Vol. vi., 12 & 18, Edw. IV. The Sieges of
Pontefract Castle, Richard Holmes, p. ; see also Leeds Mercury Weekly
Supplement, Deo. 18, 1886, for a communication by Mr. Holmes.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 118
The following arms were on the tomb: — Savile impaling
Gascoigne, for her father and mother; Mirfield, and Ashton,
for her two husbands.
Administration to her estate was granted November 22nd,
1488, to William Mirfield, of Howley, Esq., and Thomas
Went worth, of Elmsall, gentleman, her son and her son-in-law.
(b.)
Oliver Mirfield had one son, Sir William, and at least two
daughters, Jane, wife of Thomas Wentworth, of Elmsall, and
one other, whose name has not been handed down, but whose
existence may be inferred from Oliver's will.
' Sir William Mirfield, of Howley, Knt., became entitled to
Howley, as we have already seen, on coming of age. He
married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam, of Aldwark,
by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas
Clarell, of Aldwark. In 1680 (so Whitaker) (c.) there was re-
maining in the north chapel, in Batley Church, which chapel
belonged to Howley Hall, the figure of a female (the figure of
the husband having perished), party per pale Mirfield and
Fitzwilliam, and behind, a daughter kneeling, with this in-
scription : —
«« njJjo cattaeb trji* nrtnbottr to be make in ttye
tjecrr of pux Sorb, tncccc*ctxi{\.'*
This, from the impalement, is clearly Sir William Mirfield
and his wife. In the window of the middle choir,
"Sttr. jjjttirfWfc* tnxcccciMCx"
This also is probably Sir William ; but, of course, before he
was knighted. In the north-west corner of the same chapel,
so Whitaker tells us, is a very fine alabaster tomb, of which an
engraving is given in " Loidis et Elmete." On the slab is a
knight in armour, and his lady, and around the sides, held up
by figures of men and women, are, or were, these shields : —
1. Mirfield impaling Savile.
2. Mirfield impaling Fitzwilliam.
8. Imperfect.
4. Eland impaling Mirfield.
This tomb is probably that of Sir William Mirfield and his
wife; and the arms thereon represent (1) his father and
mother, (2) himself and his wife, (8) (?) his son William and
his wife, (4) his daughter and her husband.
In 1604 he purchased from his cousin, John Mirfield, of
Tong, (son of Robert, brother of Oliver), for the sum of £1,000,
all his interest in the manors of Morley, Finchden, Howley,
(b.) Surtees Soo., Vol. 53, Test. Eborac, pa. 18. The learned editor of
that volume states that her maiden name was Eland. He gives no authority,
and appears to be in error. Note the arms on the tomb.
(c.) " Loidis et Elmete," 234 et seq.
T.N.Q. I
114
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Mirfield, Hop ton, Dighton, Batley, Bolton, Newstede, Wake-
field, Gildersome, Kirkheaton, and Little Smeaton, besides
other property in these places and elsewhere, (d.) It is this
transaction which leads me to suppose that William Mirfield,
the father of Oliver and Robert, settled Howley and other
property, as I have stated above. I believe it was his interest
under this settlement that John sold on this occasion ; and,
indeed, if there were no such settlement, I am not aware of
any interest in the property that John could possibly have to
sell.
Sir William died on the 80th May, 1608 (e.) The " Inqui-
sition post mortem " was held at Pontefract, and he was found
to have died seized of property in the following places : — West
Ardsley, Batley, Bolton in Bradford-dale, Ghickenley, Drigling-
ton, Gildersome, Halifax, Heton near Ossett, Hopton, H adders-
field, Kirkheaton, Laughton in the Morthing, Mirfield, Morley,
Newstede near Lede, Puknall (?>, Saxton, Smeton, Stubbe,
Wakefield, Wilmersley and Woodkirk. (e).
His wife, Anne, survived him, and at the date of the Inqui-
sition was living at Howley. She re-married with Thomas
Clifford, Esq., and was living in 1521 (f.)
It will be noticed that
Howley is not mentioned in
the list of places given
above, although it is
mentioned as being the
residence of Anne the relict;
this, I think, agrees with
my suggestion that it was
included in Morley.
William Mirfield, only
son of Sir William, suc-
ceeded on the death of his
father, at which time he
was aged 22 (g). He married
Katherine, who was, I be-
Arms od Howley. lieve,a daughter of Sir James
Harrington, (h.) He died without issue November 25th, 1520.
His will is dated October 25th, in the same year. He directs
that he shall be buried in Batley Church, "or els where
as shall pleas Almighty God I shall deperte fro this wretahid
world." The greater part of his property he bequeathed in
(d.) Feet of Fines, Mich. 20 Hen. VII. ; Yorks. Arch. Record Ser., Vol II.,
pa. 19.
' Inq. p. m., Chan., 24 Hen. VII., No. 53.
Inq. p. m. on her son, Vide post.
Inq. p.m. on Sir William, supra.
Flower's Visit, Harl. Soc., pa. 360.
ft. XV
t
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 116
trust for his wife Katharine for life, she paying all his debts.
If his heirs attempt to disturb Katherine, then his feoffees (the
trustees) are to alien the manors of Hooley (Howley) and
Dighton to the King, at ten years* purchase. If the King will
not buy them, they are to be offered to the Archbishop of York
or to the Chancellor of England for the same price. If neither
of these two will buy, the Lord Darcy is to have the offer. If
he also refuses, the feoffees are to sell at the best price they
can get, and Katherine is to have the money. All his goods
and chattels go to Katherine, and she is appointed sole ex-
ecutrix.
The will is set out in his Inquisition post mortem, which
was held at Wetherby, June 18th, 1521. ( j.)
But although William intended to make a feoffment to the
uses of his wife, it was never completed by livery of seisin,
which omission rendered it void. Accordingly Elizabeth, the
sister of William, brought an action against his widow, which
was tried at York, and resulted in Elizabeth's favour. She
thus became possessed of Howley, and the other property as
heir-at-law to her brother, subject to Katherine's dower, (k.)
Katherine, widow of William Mirfield, re-married with Sir
Thomas Burgh (or Borough), knt. ; she was again a widow in
1537, when Sir John Went worth, knt., and Joan his wife
settled on her for life the Manor of Howley ("Holey") and
three messuages with lands in Howley and Morley (1.) She is
also mentioned in a Fine in 1542 as having a life interest in
property in Howley and Scolcroft (mi; and again in 1550 as
having a life interest in property in Westerton, Earlsheaton,
and Wakefield, (n.)
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Mirfield, and heir to her
brother, was aged 40 at the time of the latter' s death, 1520 ;
and she was at that time the wife of Robert Elland (o), having
been married to him prior to 1517 (p). Robert Elland was
dead in 1522, (q), and in 1524, we find Elizabeth was the wife
of Richard Jenkinson, of Wakefield (r). As already stated she
brought an action against her brother's widow to establish her
right as his heir-at-law. She seems to have been very friendly
with her Savile relations. I find that she gave the manor of
Dighton to trustees to the use of Robert Savile, bastard son of
Sir Henry Savile, and his heirs ; she also gave property in
(j.) Inq. p.m„ chan., 13 Hen. VIII., No. Go.
(k.) Harl. MS., 4630, pa. 155.
(1.) Feet of Fines, Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.
(m.) Feet of Fines, East. 34 Hen. VIII.
(n.) Feet of Fines, Mich. 4 Edw. VI.
(o.) Inq. p. m. Snpra.
(p.) Feet of Fines, Trin. 9 Hen. VIII.
(q.) Feet of Fines, Mich. 14 Hen. VIII.
(r.) Feet of Fines, Trin. 16 Hen. VIII.
116
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
»fe
Wakefield to John Savile, of Lupset, who was son of Thomas,
brother of Isabel, wife of Oliver Mirfield.
Elizabeth Jen kin son died March 15th, 1532: she had no
issue by. either husband (s). The Inquisition post mortem was
held at " Wentbrig," May 80th, 1586. From it we learn that
Henry Sotehill (t) was seized of the manor of Hopton and
property in Hopton, Morley, Batley, Gildersome, Mirfield,
Huddersfield and Kirkheaton, which he held by charter of Sir
William Mirfield (father of Elizabeth) son and heir of Oliver,
being all the inheritance of the said Sir William except one
third held by Isabel
his mother in dowerr
in trust for the said
Sir William and the
heirs of his body;
«_in default to go to
? the heirs of the body
rjrjof Oliver, in default
:to the heirs general
i of the last named
■ William. John
[Wentworth, of Elm-
Jsall, was found to
I be her next heir,
jviz: — son of Jane
{ Wentworth, sister
| of William Mirfield,
[knt., father of
[Elizabeth, which
5 John was then aged
no.
Richard Jen kin son
^survived his wife,
'and was living in
-1542, when he had
a life interest in
part of his late
wife's property in
Howley— Gateway. Kirkheaton (u.)
We must now go back to Jane, daughter of Oliver Mirfield.
She married Thomas Wentworth, of Elmsall, by whom she had
five sons, John, Roger, Thomas, Oliver, and William. Jane
and her husband, it appears, were both dead in 1582.
Sir John Wentworth was aged 40 at the time of the death of
Elizabeth Jenkinson in 1582 (v.) He was twice married. By
!s.) Inq. p.m., Exch., 28 & 24 Hen. VIII., William Mansell, Eacaet., No.18.
t.) Oliver Mirfield called John SothilThis brother, supra.
u.) Feet of Fines, East. 84 Hen. VIII.
y.) Inq. p.m. on Elizabeth Jenkinson, supra.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 117
his first wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Creyke, of Beverley,
lie had issue, John, Philippa, Dorothy, and Joan. By his
second wife, Joan (or Jane), daughter of Boger Appleton, of
Dartford, county Kent, he had issue, Thomas, Christopher,
Hector, Elizabeth, Bridget, and Frances, (w.) On the death
of his cousin, Elizabeth Jenkinson, he became entitled to the
Mirfield estates as her heir-at-law, and amongst the rest
Howley, but subject to the life estate of Eatherine Brough. (x).
In 1541 Sir John and his second wife joined with his eldest
eon John in settling part of the Mirfield estate on some of the
daughters. The estate settled consisted of the manors of
Morley, Howley, Batley, Mirfield, Hopton, Dighton, and
Gildersome, besides other property, and the limitations were to
Elizabeth and Bridgett Went worth, and Joan, wife of Robert
Triggott, of South Kirkby, and the heirs of their bodies, with
remainder to Sir John in fee. (y.)
This settlement was revoked the following year, and fresh
arrangements were made. A new settlement was made of the
manor of Howley, and property in Howley and Scolcroft, to
Sir John and Joan, his wife, for their joint lives and the life of
the survivor; remainder to Thomas Wentworth (the second
son) and the heirs of his body; remainder to Christopher,
Hector, Bridget, Frances, and Philippa Wentworth, Joan
Triggott, and Margaret Eyddall, the younger children, and the
right heirs of Sir John (a.) This Margaret Kyddall is stated
to be a daughter of Sir John's, but her name does not occur in
the pedigrees, and I cannot say if she was a child of the first
wife or the second.
Sir John Wentworth died in 1544 (a), and his second son
Thomas became possessed of Howley, according to the last
mentioned settlement.
Joan Wentworth survived her husband, Sir John, and re-
married with Sir Thomas Gargrave, of Nostel, the father of
Sir Cotton Gargrave. (b).
One of the first proceedings of Thomas Wentworth on coming
into Howley and Morley (for he had Morley as well as Howley,
although the former only was included in the settlement of
1542), was to improve his estate there, by the purchase from
Ralph Bees ton, of Bees ton, clerk, and Ralph Beeston, Esq.
(son and heir-apparent of the said Ralph Beeston), and Mary,
his wife, of their interest in the two manors, (c.) What this
interest was I do not know ; but as the price paid for it was
(w.) Glover's Visitation, Foster, pa. 378.
(x.) Feet of Fines, Trin. 29 Hen. VIII. ; East. 34 Hen. VIII. ; and Mich.
4 Edw. VI., snpra.
(y.) Feet of Fines, East. 33 Hen. VIII.
(a.) Inq. p.m.. Chancery, 36 Hen. VIII., No. 87.
(b.) Glover's Visitation ; Foster, pa. 69.
(c.) Feet of Fines, Mich. 38 Hen. VIII.
118
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE JOURNAL. 119
£800, it must have been considerable. It dated, at any rate,
from early times, for we have already seen that Adam De
Mirfield and Ralph De Beeston jointly held property in Morley,
and the fact that the Beestons now sold an interest in Morley
and Howley, I think, materially strengthens my suggestion
that Howley was formerly included in Morley, and that the
early descent of Howley must be taken from that of Morley.
In 1565, Thomas Wentworth sold the Manors of Morley and
Howley to Sir Francis Leek. The conveyance is dated the 4th
of March, and is expressed to be made "Between Thomas
Wentworth of Assheby, in the Gountye of Lincolne, Esquier,
of th' one partye and Sir Frauncys Leek, of Sutton-in-le-Dale
in the Countye of Derb* Knyghte of th' other partye." Went-
worth, in consideration of £2,000, conveys "all those his
manors of Morley and Howley wyth th' apprtennanoes in the
Countye of Yorke," " and all and singuler other his landes
tenementes and hereditamentes rentes proffytts and comodytyes
in Morley, Howley, Soddhouses, Fynchden, Woodkyrk and
Battley or ells where in the said Countye of Yorke." The
vendor's covenants are very curious and interesting, which i&i
my excuse for giving them at some length : — A covenant that
the manor of Morley and the other property in Morley, Wood-
kirk, Sodhouses, and Batley are now and henceforth shall
continue of the yearly value of £55 10s. over and above all
outgoings and deductions. That all the said manors and
premises are now, and after the death of Dame Jane Oargrave,
mother of the said Thomas, of the yearly value of £115 lis. 4d.
over and above all outgoings and deductions. That the
property is free from all encumbrances, except leases not
exceeding eighteen years in length, or for life or lives, where-
upon the accustomed rents are reserved ; and except also " th'
estate for terme of lyfe of the said Dame Jane Oargrave,
mother of the said Thomas, of and in the landes, tenementes
and hereditamentes in Howley, and th' estate and interest of
Hector Wentworth, brother unto the said Thomas for terme of
his lyfe, of twoo parcells of grounde beinge parte of the said
premisses, th' one called the Tynge Lawe* of the yerelye rente
of eyghte poundes eyghte shillinges, and th' other called the
Parrocks of the yerelye value of foure pounds foure shillinges."
That Wentworth will pay or cause to be paid to Leek, during
the life of the said Dame Jane Gargrave, the sum of £26 IBs.
4d. yearly, and during the life of Hector Wentworth £12 12s.
yearly, these sums to be paid by two equal portions at the
feasts of Pentecost and St. Martin the Bishop, (d.)
# [Hence Tingley, formerly as here and in the Wakefield Manor Bolls —
Thinglawe, or hill where the Wapentake Court was held.— Ed.]
(d.) Close Boll, 7 Eliz., pt. 7. ; Feet of Fines, East. 7 Eliz.
120
YORK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
In 1579 Sir Francis Leek sold Howley and other property to
Robert Savile, bastard son of Sir Henry Savile, of ThornhilL
The property sold comprised the manors of Morley, Oildersome
and Howley, and houses and land in those places, and in
Sodhouses, Finchden, Woodkirk and Batley. (e.)
Robert Savile himself lived in Lincolnshire, and I am not
aware that he ever resided at Howley. He may have com-
menced to build the hall, but he is always described as of the
county Lincoln. He was knighted in 1588, as " Sr Robert
Savell de com. Lincoln., nothus Henrici Savell equitis."
In 1566 he is described as of Pullam, (f.) co. Lincoln, Esq.;
and the same description is continued up to 1588.
Howley Ruins.*
He died in 1586. He was succeeded by his son, Sir John,
who seems, like his father, to have lived in Lincolnshire. In
1585 he was living at Doddington, in that county ; and after
his father's death, when living at Pullam, he purchased the
Mano* of Doddington for £5,000, from Thomas, Lord Burg, of
Gainsborough. In 1588 he is described, for the first time, as
of Howley, from which we may conclude that the Hall was
then finished and he was residing there.
(e.) Feet of Fines, Hil. 21 Eliz., pt. 2.
(f.) I cannot find any place in Lincolnshire called Pullam, PooUam,
Pulham, Pollom, Ac., (all these spellings occur). There is a place called
Pilham, near Gainsborough.
•We are indebted to Mr. Smith, Morley, for the use of the illustrattaBS
that accompany this article. — Ed.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 121
I. — Knights' Fees in Yorkshire, 19 Eliz.
MORLEY, BEESTON, DRIGLINGTON.
Albreda de Rotherfeld formerly held one Knight's Fee in
these villes ; afterwards Thomas Gray, Adam de Mirfeld and
Ralph de Boston, held that Fee; lately the wife of William
Mirfeld and Ralph Boston ; now Ralph Beston, Francis Leke,
knight, William Broke and John Broke hold the said Fee.
[Duchy of Lane, Class 26, Bund. 42, No. 8.]
II. — Knights' Fees in the Honor of Pontefract, 19 James I.
MORLEY.
John Savile, knight, for his lands and tenements there,
formerly belonging to Thomas Gray, afterwards to Adam de
Mirfeild, lately to Francis Leake, knight, and Ralph Beeston,
and afterwards to Robert Savile, knight, held by the service of
one tenth part of a Knight's Fee, and a rent of 7d. per annum.
[Duchy of Lane, Glass 26, Bund. 81, No. 4.]
Feet of Fines, Yorkshire, II Hen. III., No. 58.
Between Nicholas de Rithereffeld and Eufemia his wife,
plaintiffs, and Marmaduke Darel and Helewisa his wife, ten-
ants, of half all the lands which belonged to William de Insula,
father of Eufemia and Helewisa, in Broddeswrth, Quendal,
Sutton, Morle, Neweton, Beston, Cottingle, Cherlewell, Hansee,
Puntfreit, Eusthorp, Dritlington, Gildhus, Poles, Pikeburn,
Bukethorp, Squalecroft, and Finchden. Nicholas and Eufemia
io have all the lands in Quendal, Sutton, Morle, Neweton,
Puntfreit, Eusthorp, Beston, Cottingle, Cherlewell, Dritlington,
Gildhus, Fincheden, Squalecroft, Poles, and Hansee, except
the homage and service of Hugo de Langetweit of the land of
Diglandes.
Marmaduke and Helewisa to have all the rest, i.e., Broddes-
wrth with the advowson, Pikeburn, Buggethorp, and the
aforesaid service of Hugo de Langetweit.
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Assize Boll, Yorkshire, 1 -8, m. 60., 7 Edw. I.
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Nicholas de Langton of York complains against Peter de
Rotherfeud, executor of the will of William de Rotherfeud, that
whereas he (Nicholas) in 1219 sold to the said William de
Rotherfeud 16 ells of blue cloth for 46s. , and whereas the said
William de Rotherfeud had appointed the said Peter his ex-
ecutor, and William's goods and chattels had come to Peter's
hands, the said Peter refuses to pay for the cloth. Peter
denies that he is William's executor or has his goods. The
Jury find a verdict for the defendant.
122 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Congregational <Jlmrclj*s.
I well remember the scorn with which an aged lady treated
the words " Lightcliffe Church/' as applied to what she had
always known as " Leetcliff Chapel." She had attended it for
seventy years and it was never anght else than "Leetcliffe
Chapel " till the new vicar came, (now forty years *go.) With
similar doggedness, the old race ot nonconformists insisted on
retaining " Independent Chapel," instead of (to their idea) the
new-fangled " Congregational Church." A " church " is not a
material building, they argued; but what a "chapel" was they
never stopped (stooped, I might have written,) to consider.
Meeting-house began to be too quakerish to adopt, and of the
Roman Catholic origin of Chapels they had never heard, or they
would have spurned it even more than the word "Church,"
which was universally synonymous with a " National Establish-
ment." As for the architecture, the nearer they got to the
barn-like structures of their forefathers, and the further from
the church spire and gothic style of the Establishment, the
more they were gratified. Forgetting that their illustrious
founders had no objections to the venerable buildings from
which they were ejected, nor serious difficulties with the main
portions of the liturgy and music, they denounced such Church
tendencies as anti-scriptural. But during the present reign,
and especially since 1850, a new order of things has obtained,
which is well worthy of passing attention in these transitional
days. It is proposed to give a couple of articles which will
speak more appealingly by picture than by pen, and the first
of these papers must be devoted to the designs of Mr. J. P.
Pritchett, of Darlington, who has led the van in Yorkshire and
other counties. There is little need to give details of archi-
tectural descriptions, and I shall content myself with the
barest recitals, as the " Congregational Year Books " may be
consulted by those who have need of further information. [We
are indebted to Mr. Pritchett for most of the views, but ac-
knowledge our obligations to Mr. Stanoliff, Memorial Hall,
London, for six blocks ; and to Mr. Clapham, for Dkley. — Ed.]
Mr. Pritohett's Yorkshire work began about 1861-2, with two
Wesleyan Chapels at Leeds — Sheepscar, costing £8,987,* and
Headingley remodelled for £1197. Hillhouse Congregational
Church, Huddersfield, seats 950, cost £8,118 ; opened February
16th, 1865. In 1865, Knaresborough Congregational Church,
seating 600, was erected for £2,080, and Pudsey, seating 700
adults, for £2,566 ; and Selby for £1,010. Next year, besides
remodelling Benton Park (Rawdon,) for £1,211, he erected the
Established Church at Fulford for £8,926, and Rhodes Street,
(Halifax,) Wesleyan Chapel and School for £5,878. Saltburn
" These figures do not include the cost of the sites.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 128
Established Church followed about 1868, at a cost of £8,776;
and, about the same time, Beeth Congregational Church (cost-
ing £881), Drighlington Congregational Church (£1,171), and
Whitby Congregational Church (£8,590 , were reared. Ilkley
Congregational Church, with School, cost £4,55p ; Ravensthorpe,
with School, £4,060; Shelf (or Buttershaw) £1,900; Bipon,
£8,640; Holywell Green, near Stainland, erected by Messrs.
Shaw, £7,400; Ossett, £6,200. To these he has added Es-
tablished Churches at Spofforth (£1,250), Snape, Sandhutton,
Ainderby (£2,000) ; a Wesleyan Chapel at Bingley (£11,400),
and several cemetery chapels and schools. Of mansions and
public buildings this article does not treat.
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#£otias af &ein Uoohs.
The History of the Old Parish Chubch of All Saints,
Wakefield, now the Cathedral Chubch of the Diocese of
Wakefield. By John W. Walker, f.s.a., m.r.c.s., l.b.cp.
Wakefield, W. H. Milnes, 1888. pp. xv., 856. Demy 8vo.,
price 21s.
Dr. Walker's volume is a complete success. Few books have
given us so much satisfaction, in subject matter, illustrations,
printing, paper, binding, and index; all are excellent. The
minuteness of the description of the fabric and its furniture;
the exactitude in tracing the history of the Church from Saxon
times, and the social reminiscences clustering around it ; the
wealth of genealogical and biographical notes ; the promptitude
in setting off the new Cathedral, with time-hallowed associ-
ations, on a long journey of futurity; the excellence of the
numerous woodcuts and folding plates that illustrate the work,
and also the typographical excellence ; these qualities call forth
from us, as they will from all the happy possessors, the highest
encomiums. In justice to many Yorkshire bibliophiles and
antiquaries, we must say that the book was not well advertised
or their names would have appeared in the subscription list,
which numbers only a hundred. By the authors leave, we add
specimens of the many arms that are given of the historic
families of " Merrie Wakefield."
1. Argent, a chevron, between three crosses formee fitchee
gules, (Woodrove) ; impaling, Argent, a saltier gules, (Neville).
2. Argent, a cross patonce voided gules, (Pilkington).
8. Arms of the See of Wakefield.
4. Three crowns, or. Assigned to Edmund the Martyr,
King of East Anglia ; but see Hull Arms in Yorkshire Notes and
Queries, Folk-lore section ; with coronets varied.
6. Azure, three mascles or, a chief indented gules, (Challoner);
impaling Ermine, a saltire engrailed gules, (ScargiU).
6. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Barry of six, argent and azure in chief
three lozenges gules, (Fleming) ; 2 and 8, Barry of six, ermine
and gules, three crescents sable, (Waterton).
7. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, fretty sable, over all a label
df three points gules, (Middelton, of Ilkley;) 2 and 8, Argent a
cross patoncee sable, (Copley;) impaling, Argent, on a bend
sable, three spout pots of the field, (Sewer.)
8. The Percy Badge (as given also in " Ilkley, Ancient and
Modern,") is carved on a seat or misericord.
9. Argent, on a bend sable, three owls of the first, (Savile;}
impaling, Argent, on a pale sable, a conger's head, erect and
couped or. (Gascoigne, of Gawthorp.)
10. Gules, on a less, or, between three crosses patee argent,
a lion passant guardant of the field, (Staynton.)
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 187
188
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Ryedale and Nobth Yobkshibe Antiquities* By George
Frank, author of "A Guide to Ryedale," (8rd ed., 8th thousand)
with fourteen wood engravings. York, Sampson Brothers,
1888. Demy 8vo., pp. xxi., 286.
Mr. Frank treads historic ground with due reverenoe, and
the historical student, and the tourist, who traverses the forks
that feed the Derwent, will feel safe in so careful a guidance*
The first few chapters comprise a brief, general description of
Yorkshire remains, particularly runic inscribed stones of the
West Riding. These notes we appreciate, but the rest of the
volume we heartily welcome as a standard work of Yorkshire
topography. The book is very well printed, and the illus-
trations though small are neat. The price to subscribers was
7s. 6d.
The Book of Sun-Dials. Collected by Mrs. Alfred Gatty.
New edition, enlarged by H. E. F. Gatty and Eleanor Lloyd;
with appendix on the construction of Dials by W. Richardson*
London : Geo. Bell & Sons, 1889, sm. 4to., pp. viii., 519, with
illustrations.
We rejoice in the possession of this valuable, beautiful, in-
structive volume, which we may fully claim as a Yorkshire
production, and which teems with Yorkshire antiquarian learn-
ing. Price to subscribers, 10s. 6d., and we vouch for a capital
investment. We hope to give the long list of Yorkshire dials,
that our readers may furnish any case of omission. Engrav-
ings of two Anglo Saxon dials in Yorkshire, Weaverthorpe and
Kirkdale, are given, but as that at AHbrough, East-Riding, is
not illustrated, we add a block of our own, with description
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 189
from Mrs. Gatty's Book. " The dial in the south wall of the
nave of Aldbrough Church, in Holderness, is circular, and
divided into eight equal parts, with a hole in the centre for the
style. In one of these divisions is a fylfot, but here marking
the beginning of the first tide, 7-80 a.m. The inscription is on
the outer circle, and runs as follows : + VLF H ET /E R I E R AN
CYRICE FOR HANVM AND FOR GVNWARA SAVLA.
It is not unlikely that this was Ulf Thoraldsen, who gave his
lands to the Minster at York, and whose horn is still preserved
there amongst the treasures of the Church. (See Y. N. Q.
Vol. I., 281, for engraving.) The inscription is a curious
instance of a mixed dialect, Old English and Scandinavian.
The dial is 15} inches in diameter."
In Praise of Alb, or Songs, Ballads, Epigrams, and Anec-
dotes relating to Beer, Malt and Hops, with some curious
particulars concerning Ale-wives and Brewers, Drinking Clubs
and Customs. Collected and arranged by W. T. Marchant.
London : G. Redway, Covent Garden, 1888. pp. viii., 682.
Nearly twenty years ago we contributed a series of articles
on * 'Ancient Drinking Customs,*1 to a couple of temperance
newspapers, and the subject has not lost one whit of its interest
to abstainers or non-abstainers. The material brought together
and so well-arranged by Mr. Marchant, and published by Mr.
Bedway in beautiful style at a very reasonable price, is exactly
the work we were anxious to see accomplished. Although we
advocate Temperance principles more strictly than Mr. March-
ant, we fail to find a dull page in this portly volume ; nay, we
even welcome the side he has taken as affording materials for
^ full history of the long- vexed question. We do not know any
class of readers who may not consult this book with profit and
glee.
Yorkshibe : Its Scenes, Lobe and Legends. Elaborated from
a Prize Essay written for the Bradford Geographical Exhibition,
1887. By M. Tait, with maps by F. D. King. Leeds, E. J.
Arnold, 1888. pp. v., 100 ; ten maps, ten engravings.
Of the ten illustrations, only two — Jennet's Force and North
Yorks. Coast Scenery (?Runswick), are at all passable. The
maps are good, though small copies of well-known large ones
by Newton and Davis. The book is seven inches square, with
small type, and is neatly bound ; and the price is haJf-a-crown.
The letterpress is crowded with gazetteer matter, but lacks
originality. We fail to see any purpose in the book as a
handbook for elementary teachers ; less still for scholars. It is
a book of cram, utterly devoid of scientific treatment. The
child should be led from the known to the unknown ; and the
home and school should be the central starting point of observ-
ation. To pester either teacher or scholar with a hundred
pages of mere cram is criminal. On the other hand, as a book
140 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
of reference we find little fault with it, except that most of the
matter is more readily come-at-able in Murray's YorkMrt.
The purpose of the Geographical Conference and Exhibition is
still to be accomplished so far as this essay, to which was
accorded the second prize, is concerned. " Yorkshire " is a
confused, feltered, unravelled skein, and what teachers most
require is a tangible or digested series of lessons suitable for
2nd and 8rd Standard children. Twelve such Notes of Lessons
would be a boon to all young teachers.
From this standpoint alone, and not as a Yorkshire book,
we judge the work.
Westmorland Chubch Notes : being the Heraldry, Epitaphs,
and other Inscriptions in the Thirty-two Ancient Parish
Churches and Church-yards of that County. Collected and
arranged by Edward Bellasis, Lancaster Herald, Barrister-at-
Law. Vol. I. Kendal : Wilson, 1888. pp. xii., 281.
We commend this volume, not only to those interested in
Westmorland families, but to our Yorkshire readers, who may
easily spare a few hours in warm weather in copying the
monuments and gravestones of our own ancient churches*
Many would do this if assured that their labours would not be
lost, and therefore we promise space in our pages for such
contributions. We notice Yorkshire people mentioned on
some of the Westmorland stones. In printing the memorials
there is no space lost in mere verbiage. Our early correspond-
ent, the late Mr. Hamerton Crump, receives constant ac-
knowledgments.
Old Bibles: An Account of the Early Versions of the
English Bible, by J. B. Dore. 2nd edition, with preface to
1611 version added. London : Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888.
pp. xvi., 895, with 17 pages of facsimiles added.
Mr. Dore, of Huddersfield, has honoured the town in which
he resides by his marvellous collection of Old Bibles, and the
exhaustive treatise, most worthily printed and bound at the
small sum of five shillings! will make the bibliophile's eye
glisten with delight. It is a book that will be treasured by all
classes of readers as long as books endure.
Old Wild's. The original, complete, and only authentic
story of " Old Wild's," a Nursery of Strolling Players, and the
celebrities who appeared there, being the reminiscences of its
chief and last proprietor, Bam Wild. Edited by "Trim."
Beprinted from the " Halifax Courier." London, O. Vickers;
[printed by W. Byles and Sons, Bradford.] 244 pages, paper
covers, Is.
Old James Wild, the pioneer of provincial, travelling theat-
rical managers, was laid in the graveyard at Trinity Church,
Huddersfield, as the year 1888 went out. He had reached the
age of 67. His sons, Tom and Sam, especially the latter
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE JOUBNAL. 141
carried on the concern until near their death, which happened
on the 19th and 17th of May respectively, 1888 ; Tom aged 709
and Sam aged 67. What shouting and joy there was, when
the lumbering caravans and waggons entered the West Biding
Villages at the annual feasts, few will need be reminded.
Though we never entered their theatre, unfortunately probably,
we have read these reminiscences with avidity. Besides
furnishing materials for a history of village-feasts and old-time
customs, either the editor (whom we recognise as a Bradfordian,
W.B.M.) or old Sam, or both, have supplied us with a most
amusing and racy memoir. The reading has been delightful;
we wish the end of the struggling strollers had been more
prosperous.
Smxthson's Northallerton Almanack for 1889. 26th year of
publication. Northallerton, W. B. Smithson.
The local matter contains a list of the public officers and
institutions, an instructive article on "Northallerton fifty years
ago," and two local poems.
Cockbubn's Ossett Almanack and Yeab Book, 1889. 25th
year of publication, 20 local views and portraits, Id.; or in
scarlet cloth boards, Is. Ossett, S. Cockburn and Son.
Nothing passes in Ossett, Horbury, Dewsbury and neighbour-
hood but is faithfully chronicled in these pages year by year.
It is wholly printed at home, and the local information alone
fills a hundred pages. The editor works con amove. Baring-
Gould's David Turton appears among the illustrations.
Wilsden Almanac, 1889. Id. Second year of publication.
B. Binns & Son.
There are only seven leaves of local matter, a third of which
are in rhyme.
The Yorkshire Beoistries Acts, 1884 and 1885, with Rules,
Forms, Introductions, Notes, and Index by Reginald J. Smith,
LL.M., Barrister-at-Law. Bevised edition. London, W.Glowes
and Sons, Limited, 1885. pp. xx. 88. [Printed by Leader,
Sheffield.]
Of legal value, and not without Antiquarian interest.
Hand-Book to the Bobough of Leeds, 1889. First year of
publication, price 8d., or in cloth, 6d. Leeds, J. Robinson,
Bond place. 82 pages.
The Libraby, a Magazine of Bibliography and Literature.
Organ of the Library Association. No. 1, Jan. 1889. London,
£. Stock, for the proprietors. 8d. monthly.
Amongst the several valuable articles of this first issue, is
one on the Appledore Private Press, U.S.A., the property of
Mr. W. J. Linton, Hamden, New Haven, Conn, who started in
1851 the English Republican, a monthly magazine, first printed
at Leeds. After a while he set up his press at Brantwood,
now Mr. Buskin's residence, but in 1867 removed to America.
142 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
The patronage, the standing of its contributors, and the style
of its production ensure success to " The Library."
Fulneck School Magazine, No. 1, Oct. 1888* No. 2, Feb.
1889. 16 pages each, price 4d.
The seal bears the words— "Vicit Agnus Noster Eum
Sequamur. Founded a.d. 1758/' and in this religious and
antiquarian spirit we welcome all productions of the Moravian
press. Bishop Taylor gives a simple, entertaining story of his
boyhood's travel from the West Indies to Fulneck fifty yean
ago, and Mr. F. Ellis describes a similar journey forty-five
years ago. The rest of the sheet is filled with school news,
missionary report, and the story of the great balloon of 186—.
Outlines of the Histobt of Saddlewobth. By Morgan
Brierley. Beprinted from the Manchester City Press. Price Is.
small 4to., 20 pages, double columns.
We called attention to this essay as a supplement to the
" City Press" Notes and Queries, and we have pleasure in doing
so again as a separate reprint, hoping that it will be speedily
followed by Mr. Morgan Brierley's History of Saddleworth.
Yobkshibe Pamphlets. Since last issue we have received—
1. Forty-five Predictions of the Old, with the Fulfilment of
them in the New Testament. By the late Bear Admiral Henry
Gage Morris. London, Groombridge, 1855. 84 pages, un-
numbered.
2. Questions on the Pentateuch, with lessons from Matthew
Henry's Commentary . . . No. 1. Genesis. By an Officer
of the Royal Navy [Bear Admiral H. G. Morris.] London,
Painter, [1889] 152 pp.
8. The Yorkshire Hymn Book. By Rev. F. 0. Morris, B.A.,
Bector of Nunburnholme. York, Sampson, 1860. [ Coultas,
printer.] 122 pages.
4. Comfort for the Contrite. By Bev. F. 0. Morris. London,
Groombridge. 1854. pp. 26.
5. The Precepts of the Bible. By Bev. F. 0. Morris. 1855.
pp. 71.
6. The Maxims of the Bible. By Bev. F. 0. Morris. 1855.
pp. 119.
7. A Plan for the Detection of Thefts by Letter Carriers,
read before the British Association at York in 1844, by Bev.
F. 0. Morris, B.A. London, Groombridge, 1850. [Bellerby,
printer, Gazette Office, York.] pp. 8.
8. The " Bitter Cry " of Children Harrowed to Death under
Code upon Code. By a County Magistrate, Manager of his
Parish School. [Bev. F. 0. Morris.] London, Poole. [York,
printed by Ben Johnson.] 2d. 18 pages ; also 10 pages of
advertisements of Mr. Morris' books.
9. Account of the Siege of Killowen, now first published (as
printed in " Blakestone's Monthly Magazine ") by the Bev.r.
WITH YORKSHIBE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 148
Orpen Morris, from the original MS. in the Library at the
King's Inn, Dublin. London, Groombridge, 1854. 8 pages,
double columns.
10. Account of the Battle of the Monongohela River,
[America, 1755,] now first published from an original docu-
ment. By Bev. F. 0. Morris, B.A., Beotor of Nunburnholme.
London, Groombridge, 1854, 8d. 10 pages.
11. Experiments on Living Animals. 4 pages. F. 0* M.
12. A Hundred Seasons against the Lakd Craze. By the
Rev. F. 0. Morris, B.A. London, E. Stock. Id. 10 pages,
with 6 pages more giving a list of Mr. Morris* works.
18. The Ghost of Wesley. By the Bev. F. 0. Morris, B.A.
London, W. Poole, Id. 16 pages, with 8 pages more of adver-
tisements. Our worthy Yorkshire Beotor is not only a volum-
inous and learned author, but a trenchant satirist.
14. Is Smoking Tobacco Injurious ? No. A Short History of
Tobaooo, with its effect upon the general health and its in-
fluence on the teeth. By Chas. F. Forshaw, Doctor of Dentis-
try, Bradford. Clegg and Tetley, 1887. 24 pages.
15. Ditto., 5th edition, with reply to " Is Smoking Tobacco
Injurious ? Yes." Stanningley, Birdsall. 1887. Id. 16 pp.
16. An Account of Miss Hannah Dale, the Staffordshire
Giantess, [born 1881] , by Dr. C. F. Forshaw, Dental Surgeon.
8 pages, no place or date.
17. Alcohol, its influence on the body and mind, its uses, &c,
shewing its poisonous effects when used as a beverage. A
Lecture by Dr. Forshaw, Dental Surgeon, Id. Stanningley,
Birdsall, 1887. 16 pages.
18. A few Bemarks on Stammering by Dr. Forshaw, Dental
Surgeon. Stanningley, Birdsall, 1887. Id. 8 pages.
19. The Teeth, by Dr. Forshaw, Dental Surgeon, Bradford,
Woodhead, [1885.] 87pp.
20. Eventide, a collection of Original Poems by J. Gaunt.
Bradford, T. Brown, 52 pp.
21. The 66th Beport of the Whitby Lit. and Phil. Society,
1888. Whitby, Newton, 16 pages.
"Inactivity," with abundance of money, and a first-rate
museum, grates on our ears. Arise !
Yorkshire Abohjeoloqical & Topographical Journal. Issued
to Members only. Part XL. completes the 10th Volume of this
invaluable series. The volume contains pp. he, 592 ; a reason-
able quantity for the two years' subscription (one guinea), but
the quality raises the pecuniary worth at least double. The
Index to Paver's Marriage Licenses appears under Paver, but
an intimation of this arrangement should appear at the head
of the Index. These Licenses with Mr. Norcliffe's Notes afford a
rich genealogical hunting ground. Mr. Brayshaw completes
his Yorkshire extracts from Leland's "Itinerary;" and Mr.
144 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Eskelby his Notes on the Eskelby family, of Exelby and Dish-
forth. Both papers are exceedingly valuable and suggestive.
Mr. Fowler next treats ns to twenty pages, of rich Latin, with
English Notes on " Cistercian Statutes.'* Mr. Richard Holmes
follows with Dodsworth's Osgoldcross Notes, and a history of
Foulsnape Hospital. More valuable contributions could not be
printed.
Moravian Chapels and Preaching Houses in London and
Di8tbict. 28 pen and ink sketches in 12 plates by an Amateur,
March, 1889, 2s. 6d. With a short sketoh of the work of the
Ancient Episcopal Moravian Church, or United Brethren, in
London and District, from 1728. 12 pages. Leeds, Goodall
and Suddick, for the Author.
This portfolio forms No. 18 of the series, and completes the
sketches of Moravian Chapels, Residences, &o. in England and
Scotland. We congratulate E. M. C. of Upper Wortley, Leeds,
on the splendid work he has accomplished. For twenty yean
we have expressed a desire to see the materials for a history of
the Brethren gathered, and now to our gratification find it
fairly accomplished by one anonymous writer, who has added,
what we never expected to see, the whole of the historic views.
The thanks of the Synod, full as they must be, can scarcely
exceed those of the local historian and topographer. Our next
desire is to see the early Diaries of the Brethren as preserved
at Herrnhut, Ac, made public, and also to possess the Register
of Yorkshire Burials, &c. to 1800.
Mr. John Nicholson, Hull, Author of "Beacons of East
Yorkshire," has in the press a work on the " Folk Speech of
East Yorkshire." A work of this kind was needed, for the
East Biding dialect is slowly but surely disappearing, and it
has had a very scanty literature to perpetuate it. Mr. Nicholson
has not compiled a Glossary only, such as are published by the
Dialect Sooiety, but deals largely with the every-day expressions
of the people. Words relating to fighting and quarrelling, such
as—bray, bunch, skelp, &c. are dealt with, and the rather
lengthy Glossary that is given is illustrated by quotations from
old writers, to show that dialect words are not necessarily
wrong, but only old. There are several original dialect stories,
and a Bibliography of dialect pieces and publications.
Chxjbgh Plate. Several Members of the Yorkshire Archaeo-
logical Society are engaged on a description of the Church Plate
of Yorkshire. H any reader knows of vessels that have been
sold, or strayed away, descriptions would be acceptable. We
notioe also that the Bev. Andrew Trollope, B.A., Edith Weston
Bectory, Stamford, has a 4to. volume of 600 pages in the press
on the Leicestershire Church Plate, with account of the Donors,
and profusely illustrated in the best styles, with coats of arms,
Ac. To subscribers the price is 80s.
WITH YORKgHTBE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 145
%*tgbl*g (Qiutktr fUgisttr*
Continued from page 96.
[Note : On p. 89 read "Bogger Shackleton, son of Richard S."]
Mabbiaoeb.
[Note : Many of these are recorded at full length, being in
fact copies of the Marriage Certificate usually drawn up among
Quakers. The majority have also the names of the .witnesses
attached, but for brevity's Bake they are omitted.]
Yeab. Day. Month.
1661 21 2 Dyonis Gockshutt & Ann Smith dau. of
Robert Smith
1666 24 12 William Clayton of Stanbury & Sarah Smith
dau. of Christopher Smith of Stanbury
in Haworth parish at the house of Joseph
Smith of the same
1670 28 2 Thomas Brigg of Coversett hill in Eeighley
(according to the p'ish the younger & Xsabell Bothamley
English account) of Wilsden at the house of Joshua
Dawson at Jackfield (Intention to marry
published on the 2nd day of the month
at the house of John Brooksbank of
Lacocke)
1671 27 6 William Jowett & Jane Shawe at Stubbin
house
1677 2 7 Robert Hudson and Mary Hombler (or
(or 1679). Ambler) of Steeton dau. of Henry Ambler
at the house of Will. Clayton near
Stanbury
1679 11 11 Thomas Eastburae (or Eastber) of Swathes
in Kighley p'ish, clothier, and Sarah
Sugden of Heaton-roads in p'ish of
Bradford, spinster, at the house of Tho :
Taylor of Laioock
f, 24 2 Thomas Pearson of Keigley<fc Grace Vipond
the dau. of John Vipond of Britcliffe in
Burnley p'ish in Lankishire at the house
of John Vipond
„ 9 8 William Smith of Clow-banke and Susana
Smith dau. of Jonas Smith of Stanbery
at the house of Jonas Smith of the same
place
1680 9 11 John Wade of Steeton in p'ish of Kildwick
clothier, and Margrett Brigg the dau. of
Thomas Brigg of Calversike-hill at the
house of Thomas Brigg, yonger
y.n.q. x
146 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Ybab. Day. Mokth.
1682 last 9 Richard Shackleton of Harding in the
p'ish of Bingley, Bachlor, and Sarah
Brigg dau. of Thomas Brigg of Caher-
sike-hill, spinster, at the house of the
said Thomas Brigg
1685 18 10 John Hird of Braithwaite in the pish of
(called December) Kighley, Batchlour, and Ann Briggs of
the p'ish of Kighley, dan. of Henry
Briggs of the p'ish of Sladebern co. York
spinster, at the house of Will : Claiton
of Btandberry in the p'ish of Haworth
1687 15 11 John Smith of Clough-bank, Batchlour,
and Mary Taylor dau. of Thomas Taylor
of Lacock at the house of Thomas Brigg
of Calversike-hill near Kighley
1688 2 6 Thomas Musgrave of Brathwate in the
(called p'ish of Kighley, Batchlour, & Hannah
August.) Gockshaw of Clough-bank in the same
p'ish at the house of Robert Hudson of
Steeton
1690 28 10 Jerimie Brigg of Calversick hill in the p'ish
of Kighley, Bachlour, & Elizabeth Davy
the dau. of Will: Davei (or Davy) of
Whitley-head in p'ish of Kildwiek,
spinster, at the house of Richd. Shackle-
ton in Harden *
,, 5 12 William Davie of Wittley-head in the p'ish
of Kildwiek, & Hannah Roberts dau. of
Lawrence Roberts of Cunendley in the
p'ish of Kildwiek, spinster, at the house
of Henry Wood at Grange Wood-side in
the p'ish of Kildwiek
1694 24 4 Zachriah Yewdall of Idle, son of Zacriah
Yewdall of the same, (within Yewdall
sic Bawdon, meeting), & Martha Pearson,
(within Kighley meeting,) of Close head
near Thornton in Bradford p'ish, at the
house of Timothy Maud at Castle field
near Bingley, within Kighley meeting
1695 28 4 William Wade of Steeton or Steven in the
(called June) p'ish of Kildwiek, Batchlour, son of
Dennis Wade deceased & Agnes his
wife, & Elizabeth Atkinson of the p'ish
of Kildwiek & dau. of Robert & Agnes
Atkinson of Ringston hill in the p'ish
• [Marriage Certificate in my possession.]
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE JOURNAL. 147
Yeab. Day. Month.
of Couln & county of Lancaster, a
young woman at the house of Richd.
Shackleton in Harden
1696 2 5 Richard Thompson of Emsey near Skipton
in the county of York, widdow, & Mary
Hudson of Brathwait in the p'ish of
Kighley, widdow of Robt. Hudson of
Bteeton at the house of Henry Wood
near Eildwick
„ 9 12 John Wildman son of John Wildman of
Mewith in the p'ish of Bentham & co.
of York, & Mereoie Mann of Greenhouse
in the p'ish of Kighley, young woman,
at the house of Henry Wood, near
Eildwick
1698 18 6 James Hustler of Bingley, yeoman, &
(called July). Elizabeth Rawson of Stubbin-house
near Bingley, widdow; at the Public
Meeting-house at Rawden. (Intention
published at Brathwaite)
1701 5 1 Dennis Davie of Reedcarr in the p'ish of
Eildwick, & Martha Bell dan. of Adam
& Mary Bell of Wirersden near Thorn-
ton in the p'ish of Bradford at the
house of Henry Wood near Eildwick
1702 28 8 Thomas Brigg Junr. of Calversike-hill &
Ruth Hopwood (agreed to)
„ 17 10 David Davie a member of this meeting &
Mary Sutcliffe a member of Trawden
meeting & Marston monthly meeting in
Lancashire (Intention to marry pub-
lished)
1708 20 4 Robert Smith & Anna Taylor (agreed to).
1704 24 8 Jonathan Tayler a member of this meeting
& Lidia Tennand a member of Fairfield
meeting (Intention to marry published)
1706 2 8 Thomas Blakey a friend of Fairfield nieet-
ing living in the town of Silsden & p'ish
of Eildwick & Ann Hird a friend of
Kighley meeting, living at Uttley, in the
p'ish of Kighley, at a meeting at Steeton
(Intention to marry published at the
last monthly meeting at Askwith the
28th of the 1st month, commonly called
March)
148 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Year. Day. Month.
1706 9 4 James Ramsden son of James Ramsden of
Braithwaite in the p'iah of Kighley,
yeoman, & Agnes flird, dau. of John
Hird of Braithwaite afsd. yeoman at the
house of John Hird at Braithwaite
(Marriage certificate in my possession)
1707 80 2 Henry King son of Henry King of Oakcliff
in the p'ish of Carlton belonging to
Thornton within Settle monthly meet-
ing, & Luce Smith dau. of John & Mary
Smith of Lacock in the p'ish of Kighley
at the house of John Binns at Farnhill
Cragg-top in the p'ish of Kildwick
1710 18 7 Joshua Walker son of John Walker of
(called September) Bowling in the p'ish of Bradford,
clothier, a member of Bradford meeting
& Isabell Bothomley one of the daus. of
Jonathan Bothomley of Wilsden in the
p'ish of Bradford at the public meeting-
place in Kighley
1712 4 4 James Wilcock of the parish of Calverky
(called June) & county of York, Broad clothier, son
of John Wilcock of Maningham in the
p'ish of Bradford, Broad Clothier, and
Phebe Heaton dau. of Jeremiah Heaton
of Ravenroid in the p'ish of Bingley,
Kersey-maker, at the public meeting-
place at Kighley
,, 10 6 Joseph Leach of Lacock in the p'ish of
Kighley and Sarah Hustler dau. of
Jeremiah Hustler of Steeton, at meeting
house, Kighley
1718 29 8 Wm. Hustler a member of this meeting 4
Jane Jowett a member of Bradford
meeting (agreed to)
1714 2 12 Robert Walker of Healey in the p'ish of
Batley & county of York, a member of
Bridge-house meeting, and Ruth Maud,
dau. of Timothy Maud of Crossfiatts in
the p'ish of Bingley at the house of the
sd. Timothy Maud
1715 28 1 Thomas Waddington, mason, son of
Richard Waddington of Calversyke hill
in the township of Kighley, & Hannah
Blakey dau. of Thomas Blakey of
Silsden in the p'ish of Kildwick, yeoman
at the Meeting-house in Kighley
WITH YORKSHIBE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 149
Yeak. Day. Month.
,, 9 9 James A6holl son of John Asholl within
the township of Kighley & Martha
Graven dau. of Joseph Craven of Keigh-
ley at the meeting-house in Kighley
,, 9 9 Wm. Lister of this meeting & Ellinore
Dickinson a member of Leeds meeting
(agreed to)
1717 17 1 William Waddington of this meeting &
Beatrice Overend a member of Bradford
meeting (agreed to)
20 12 Richard Wadington & Mary Prockter
(agreed to)
1718 9 8 John Wade of Steeton in the p'ish of
Kildwick, widdower, & Mary Holms of
the same, young woman, at the meeting
house in Kighley
1721 26 5 Joseph Blakey a member of this meeting
& Mary Elam a member of Hallifax
meeting & Brigg-house monthly meeting
(Intention to marry published)
1728 4 12 Thomas Procter of Sherburn, son of
Stephen & Sarah Procter of Tadcaster
in the county of York, members of
Weatherby meeting & York monthly
meeting, & Margarett Waddington,
younger dau. of Richard & Margarett
Waddington of Kighley meeting and
Knaresborough monthly meeting at the
meeting-house in Kighley
Henry King & Timothy Maud, 4 or 5 mo :
1725, wanting (on a slip of paper)
1725 26 8 Timothy Maud Juni. & Ann Walker
(Intention to marry published)
1726 9 4 William Smith son of Robert & Hannah
Smith of Clough-bank in the pish of
Kighley & Martha Riley dau. of Benja-
min Ryley of Lower Holm-house in the
p'ish of Kighley afsd. at the meeting-
house in Kighley
1727 Samuel Grimsha, son of Edwd. Grimsha
of Rawdon & Mary Wade dau. of Wm.
& Eliz. Wade of Steeton in the p'ish of
Kighley at meeting-house in Kighley
(on a loose slip of paper)
1729 Thomas Foster son of Christopher Foster
of Rilstone, & Mary Lister dau. of Wm.
Lister of Bingley (on a Ioobo Blip of paper)
150 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Ybak. Day. Month.
1782 4 4 Thomas Brigg son of Jeremiah Brigg of
(called Jane) Laycock, yeoman, & Judith Hardcastle,
dan. of Thomas Hardcastle of Hard-
castle-garth in Hartwith, p'ish of Kirby-
Malzeard, county of York, at the public
^ meeting-place at Daker pasture in the
township of Daker-cum-Burely, p'ish of
Bippon, (from marriage certificate in
my possession)
», 26 5 William Lister Junr. & Elizabeth Jackson
dau. of Henry Jackson and a member
of Woodall meeting and Pontefract mo:
meeting (agreed to)
9, 29 1 Dennis Ambler, son of Dennis & Dorothy
Ambler of Silsden in the p'ish of Kild-
wick & Susannah Wardale of the same,
dau. of James Wardale of Sorby-bridge
in the p'ish of Hallifax at the meeting-
house in Kighley
m 7 10 Jonas Adcock son of John & Mary Adcock
of Wroaae in the p'ish of Calvcrley &
Ann Denbigh late of Kighley, dau. of
William Denbigh of Windale in the
p'ish of Calverley at the meeting-house
in Kighley
1783 8 5 Jonathan Hardcastle son of Thomas k
Lidia Hardcastle of Hardcastle-garth in
the township of Buerley & p'ish of
Bippon, & Elizabeth Davie, dau. of
William & Hannah Davie of Whitley
« head in the p'ish of Kildwick at the
meeting-house in Kighley
I* 28 8 John Stansfeild son of Joshua Stansfeild
of 8andbed8 in the p'ish of Bingley &
Deborah Maud dau. of Timothy &
Esther Maud of Gauthorp-hall near
Bingley at the public meeting-place at
Spring-head near Bingley
jt 7 12 John Boulton of Elslack in the p'ish of
Broughton & co. of York, & Mary Leach
dau. of Joseph & Sarah Leach of
Steeton in the p'ish of Kildwick at the
meeting-house in Kighley
„ 24 July Joshua Brigg son of Thomas Brigg of
Calversike-hill parish of Kighley, yeo-
man, & Isabel Dryver dau. of John
Dryver of Weatley , within the monastery
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 151
Ykab. Day. Month.
of Sawley, county of York, yeoman, at
the public meeting-place at Newby,
parish of Gisburn. (From marriage
certificate in my possession)
1786 27 8 Abraham Millner a member of Bawdon
meeting & Isabell Lister a member of
this meeting (agreed to)
1738 22 8 Richard Hoyle of Leeds meeting k Mary
Hobkins of this meeting (agreed to)
1742 20 12 David Davie k Mary Wadkinson of Went-
worth Woodhonse a member of Baulby
mo : meeting (agreed to)
1748 24 5 George Adkinson of Hull & Sarah Blakey
a member of this meeting (agreed to)
1749 22 8 George Aspdin & Sarah Blakey (agreed to)
1751 21 2 David Davie & Frances Atkinson of Sauley
Grange (agreed to)
1758 17 12 Thomas Webster a member of Brighouse
mo : meeting & Sarah Slater a member
of this meeting (agreed to)
Caleb Stansfield & Ann Riley (agreed to) -
Joseph Jowet & Bethiah Brigg (agreed to)
Richard Jowet of Brighouse monthly,
meeting & Paulina Brigg (agreed to)
1766 26 8 William Aldam a member of Balby meet-
ing & Mary Davie (agreed to)
1772 15 8 Abraham Stansfield and Sarah Wilson
(agreed to)
It
22
10
1761
22
11
1768
The following, taken from the Minute Book of the Eeighley
meeting, are those who were testified against and expelled from
the Society for marrying against rule, i.e. with a priest or with
one outside the Society : —
Yeab. Day. Month.
Mary Ambler & Elizabeth Wilson
Thomas Masker
William King
Ruth Whitley, formerly Buth Walker
Luce Smith
Ann Lister
Henry & Joseph King 6ons of Henry
King
Hannah Garnit late Lister
Hird Ram8den
Thomas Brigg son of Thomas &r Judith
Brigg
1724
8
10
1785
26
9
1786
28
5
it
29
11
1737
23
8
1788
23
5
1743
1748
18
7
1752
21
1
1759
19
8
152 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Yj&ab. Day. Month.
,, ,, „ Ruth late Cooper
1792 6 6 Grace Davy dau. of Joseph Davy
,, „ „ Ann Davy dan. of William Davy
1798 10 8 William Davy of Whitley head (2nd
marriage)
,, 1 12 - Abraham Davy
Deaths.
[Note : The most part of the burials took place at Calver-
sike hill in Kighley, being the burial ground already referred
to : but a few occurred at the meeting-house yard ; & some at
friends' burial grounds at Grossflatts near Bingley; & at
Stanbury. The items marked Q.B.Y. are obtained from an
extract furnished by the Officials at York of the Interments at
Galversike hill.]
TH.
William Brigg
Anthony Moore (of Oakworth, p'ish of
Kighley, Q.B.Y.)
Ellen Smith
Suzanna Staveley dau. of James Staveley
Bobert Taylor, son of Thomas Taylor
Alice Walker, dau. of John Walker of
Steeton
Agnes Tayleor dau. of Thomas Tayleor
William Taylor son of Thomas Tayleor
Elizabeth Byns, dau. of Abraham Byns of
Oakeworth in the p'ish of Kighley
Isabell Taylor dau. of Thomas Taylor
Isabell Bothomley the wiffe of Jonas
Bothomley of Wilsten (Wilsden)
Dynis Gockshott the faither late of Laicoek
Dynis Gockshott son of the said Dynis
Gockshott (of Kighley, Q.B.Y.)
Isabell Moore late of Oakeworth
Bobert Smith of Cleugh bank
Ann Waide dau. of Dyonis Waide
Jennet Moore late of Oakworth in Keigh-
ley p'ish
Agnes Clough, widow, late of Keighley
Michaell Bamsden (of Galversike hill,
Q.B.Y.)
„ 14 1 Elizabeth Smith, dan. of Bobt. Smith of
Cleugh bank
1678 19 10 Luce Smith, do. do.
Year.
Dat.
Month
1658
26
7
1660
22
11
$9
26
10
1661
8
5
.»»
8
6
>>
81
5
»»
6
6
>>
18
11
1662
9
1
1665
14
10
1667
29
9
»>
18
1
166A
19
1
1670
25
8
ft
8
6
9*
20
2
»9
26
8
99
18
6
1671
22
6
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 158
"Yeab. Day. Month.
1675 5 6 John Dawson son of Joshua Dawson of
Jackfeild in Bingley p'ish, b& at Cover-
sett hill on the 7th
„ 9 11 Joseph Smith of Stanberry, b^ in the
burying place at Stanberry on the 21st
„ 9 Ann Bamsden (of Calversike hill, Q.B.Y.)
1677 12 2 Jonas Bothamley son of Jonas Bothamley
of Willston, bd- at Caullversik-hill on
the 14th
,, 25 1 Grace Wade of Steeton
, , 18 8 Mawde Barraclough wife of Averrey Barra-
clough (of Harrogate Q.B.Y.)
1680 5 7 John Brookbank of Laicocke, bd-atCau-
versike hill on the 7th
„ 20 11 Henery Ambler of Steeton \fi- at Cauver-
sike hill on the 22nd
„ 12 1 John Brigg son of Thomas Brig seiner, of
(called July) Calversick-hill, b*- at Calversick-hill on
the 14th
1681 (the month Agnes Hird of Braithatt
called April)
1682 21 (Nov.) George Millner, son of John Millner of
Harding, b*- at Calversick-hill on the •
23rd
1684 17 11 John Widdopp, son of John Widdopp in
Felloone, bd- on the 18th
,, 18 1 Susanna Smyth, the wife of Willyam
Smyth, b* on the 16th
1685 15 12 Ann Eastbouren, the wife of John East-
(or 8) bouren, bd on the 17th (of Swaths near
Kighley, Q.B.Y.)
1686 6 Jennet Laicock, wife of John Laicock of
Kighley
1687 6 Martha Judson dau. of James & Agnes
Judson of Kighley
1688 19 2 Sarah Eastburn the wife of Thomas East-
burn, bd on the 21st (of Kighley Q.B.Y.)
1689 2 „ 9 Anthony Browen of Harding in the p'ish
of Bingley b4* at Calversik-hill on the
5th
1690 4 2 Thomas Brigge 'the anohan t' (of Calversike
hill Q.B.Y.) b4- on the 6th
„ 16 6 Mary Talyer the wife of Thomas Talyer
of Lackock b4 on the 18th
„ 27 6 Mary Smith, dau. of Robert Smith of
Cleugh bank (who died 1670)
154 YORKSHIRE MOTES AND QUERIES,
Tkab. Day. Month*
1690 17 2 John Brigg, son of Jeremiah, of Laycock
(Q.E.Y.)
,, 15 4 Jo : Walker of Steeton
„ 16 4 Jo : Eastburne of Kighley (of Swaiths nr.
Kighley Q.R.Y.)
„ 17 10 Robt. Hudson of Steeton in the p'ish of
Kildwiek
,, 29 10 Joshua Dawson (late of Addingham,
Q.R.Y.)
1691 17 or 24 1 James Judson of Kighley, b*- on the 24th
„ 5 ' Dennis Wade of Steeton
1692 9 2 Mary Dawson wife of the said Joshua
Dawson (late of Addingham, Q.R.Y.)
„ 2 or 12 1 William Davie son of William & Hannah
Davie of Whitley-head in Kildwiek p'ish
„ 8 2 Thomas Wade of Steeton in Kildwiek
p'ish, bd on the 6th
Thomas Talyer of Lacock, b* on the 10th
Mary Clough of Brathwait in the p'ish of
Kighley, bd- on the 81st
William Roulson of Kighley, bd on the 11th
John Laicock of Kighley
Moses Mawd, son of Timothy & Esther
Mawd of Castlefield near Bingley
1696 80 5 Lace Smith of Clough-bank, widdow of
Robert Smith, supposed to be near one
Hundred years of age, for she lived to
the fourth generation
„ 22 7 Agnes Wood, wife of Henry Wood of
Cragg-top near Kildwiek
„ 25 10 Rose Walker of Steeton, widdow of John
Walker
169? 2 11 Joshua Brigg, son of Thomas & Isabell
Brigg of Calversik-hill, bd- on the 5th,
aged 18 years, 1 month, 4 days
1697 80 1 Isabell Brigg wife of Thomas Brigg of
Calversike-hill, b*- on the 2nd of the
2nd month
1699 16 1 Jonathan Mann (of Greenhouse, p'ish of
Kighley, Q.R.Y.)
„ 80 1 Elizabeth Brigg, wife of Jeremy Brigg of
Steeton, bd- on the 1st of the 2nd month
„ 25 6 Hannah Mawd, dan. of Timothy & Esther
Mawd of Castlefield, near Biqgjey, b4-
on the 27th
1698
6
6
1694
28
8
»?
9
8
»»
8 or 2
11
1695
6
8
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 155
Yeab. Day. Month.
1609 26 6 AgnesWaddington,a.of Richard & Margaret
Waddington of Calversikehill, bd* on the
28th, aged about 1 year & 8 months
,i 20 12 John Bothomley son of JohnathanBothom-
ley of Wilston in the p'ish of Bradford,
bd- on the 24th
1700 8 2 Elizabeth Shackleton of Harden, widdow,
b* on the 12th, an aged woman
27 2 Agnes Judson, widdow of James Jndson
of Eighley, b*- on the 29th Aged
19 4 Ann Wade, widdow of Dennis Wade of
Bteeton, b*- on the 28rd Aged
4 6 Margrett Jndson, dan. of James & Agnes
Judson of Eighley, a young woman
12 7 Elizabeth Widdoop, wife of John Widdoop
of Felloan (Fell lane, Q.R.Y.) in the
p'ish of Eighley, b*- on the 15th In years
14 or 2 8 Susanna Brooksbank, widdow, of Swaith,
b*- on the 10th Aged
28 10 Timothy Mawd, son of Timothy & Esther
Mawd, of Castlefield near Bingley, b*-
on the 27th at Calversike hill (aged 2
months Q.R.Y.)
1701 last 2 Sara Davie dau. of William & Hannah
Davie of Whittley-head, in the p'ish of
Eildwick, bd on the 2nd of 8rd month,
(aged 6, Q.R.Y.)
» 18 5 Robert Wright of Lacock in the p'ish of
Eighlev, bd- on the 21st A young man
,, 29 9 Mary Mawd, child of Timothy & Esther
Mawd, aged 11 days. First that was
buried at Crossflatts
708 11 12 * Grace Estbern, dau. of Thomas Estbern
of Eighley, b*- on the 18th in friends'
burying place at the desire of her father
„ 15 12 * Thomas Estbern aforesaid, b*- in friends'
burying place on the 19th at the desire
of his son
„ 26 1 * Christopher Wilsha "who had formerly
gone among friends, but going out to
the priest for a wife & having been
severall years maintained by the parish
box, he dye the 26 of the first month.
His son-in-law desired to bury him in
friends' burying ground, and said it was
his mind to be buried there "
* " These buryed at the request of relation, bo not recorded in y« monthly
meeting book."
156 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Year. Day. Month.
1708 8 2 Mary Brigg, widdow of Thomas Brigg, the
antientest of Calversike-hill, b4, on ike
7th Aged
,, 28 2 Sarah Shackleton, wife of Richard Shack-
leton of Harden, in the p'ish of Bingley
b4- on the 2nd of the 8rd month, aged
45 years, 5 months
,, 2 4 John Taylor son of John Taylor of Hill-
end in Harden, in the p'ish of Bingley:
was buried on the 6th in a p'cell of
ground belonging to Timothy Mawd at
Cross-flatt, near Bingley, about 28 yean
of age
1704 24 10 Richard Shackleton son of Richard k
Sarah Shackleton of Harden, in the
pish of Bingley, b4- the 28th at Cross-
flatt near Bingley 16 years of age
1705 15 4 Sarah Davy dau. of William & Hannah
Davy of Whitley-head, b4- on the 17th
(Aged 2 years, 4 months : Q.R.Y.)
„ 29 1 Richard Shackleton of Harden in the p'iah
of Bingley, b4- on the 1st of the 2nd at
Cross-flatt, near Bingley, above middle
age
„ 18 9 Agnes Atkinson, widdow, of Calversike-
hill, in the township of Kighley, b4- on
the 20th, in friends' burying place at
Calversike-hill About the 71st year of
her age
„ 19 11 Isabell Wright of Hollins in the p'ish of
Kildwick, b4- on the 22nd, a young
woman
,, 9 12 Stephen Wade of Steeton in the p'ish of
Kildwick, b4- on the 12th
1706 29 2 Jonathan Taylor son of Jonathan & Lidya
Tayor of Ravenroid near Bingley, b4 on
the 2nd of the 8rd month at Crossflaftt
near Bingley, about 82 years of age
„ 9 4 Elizabeth Bothomley, dau. of Jonathan k
Mary Bothomley of Wilsden, in the p'ish
of Bradford & coy. of York, b4- on the
12th at Calversike-hill, a young woman
„ 11 11 Jonas Bothomley of Wilsden in the p'ish
of Bradford b4- on the 16th at Calversike
hill, about 97 years of age
1707 80 1 Thomas Brigg of Calversikehill, in the
township of Kighley, b4* on the 3rd of
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 157
Yzab. Day. Month.
the 2nd month at Calversikehill, 74
years of age
1707 24 8 Jonathan Taylor of Ravenroid near Bing-
ley, b*- on the 28th at Crossflats, about
82 years of age
8 5 William Leach of Lacock, within the p'ish
of Kighley, bd- on the 6th at Calversike-
hill, being aged
Michael Pighels, child, of Ha worth, was
bd* on the 16th day of the 8th month at
Calversike-hill
22 6 Mary Brooksbank of Calversik-hill, near
Kighley, b4- on the 25th at Calversike-
hill
12 7 John Smith of Lacock, within the p'ish of
Kighley, bd- on the 16th Aged
6 12 Mary Coats, widdow, of Croos-moor in the
p'ish of Kildwick, b*- on the 9th Aged
170« 9 1 Hannah Town, dau. of Henry & Grace
Town of Silsden, bd* on the 11th, about
8 years of age
1708 5 4 Mary Wilman, widdow, of Kighley, b4 on
the 9th, about 72 years of age
„ 5 5 Dennis Ambler of Silsden, within the p'ish
of Kildwick, bd- on the 8th
„ 24 10 Mary Thompson, widdow, late of Kighley,
bd- on the 27th Aged
1709 22 1 Joseph Blaikey son of Thomas k Ann
Blaikey of Utley, in the township of
Kighley, b4- on the 24th (aged 4 months
Q.R.Y.)
,9 A child of Robert & Hannah Smith of
Clough bank, within the p'ish of Kigh-
ley, was born the 27th of the 3rd month
& dyed the 80th. Buried the 2nd day
of the 4th month
,, 25 7 James Hustler of Bingley, b4 on the 28th
Aged
„ 7 8 Hannah Smith of Clough bank, in th&
p'ish of Kighley, bd- on the 11th A
young woman
1711 6 2 Elizabeth Green, wife of John Green, of
London, departed this life with her
daughter at Car-head in the p'ish of
Kildwick, b*- in the meeting-house yard
at Kighley on the 9th, about 54 year*
of age
158 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8,
Yeab. Day. Month.
„ 16 2 Thomas England of Lees in the p'ish of
Bingley, b** in the meeting-house yard
at Kighley on the 19th Aged
,, 19 6 Martha Davy, wife of Dennis Davy of
Clayton heights, in the p'iah of Bradford
b*- at Calversike hill
,, 80 5 Henry Wood of Button in the p'ish of
Kildwick, bd- on the 2nd of the 6th
month at Calversike hill Aged
„ 7 11 William Smith Dr. of Clough bank, in the
p'ish of Kighley, b*- on the 10th at
Calversike hill, 80 years of age or up-
wards
1712 5 1 Mary Asholl wife of John Asholl of High-
field near Kighley, b*- on the 9th in
friends' burying-place in Kighley
„ 1 Adam Bell of West Scoles in the p'iah of
Bradford, b*- on the 21st at Calversike
hill, aged, (of Thornton Q.R.Y.)
„ 19 2 Frances Myers, widdow, of Crossflatts
near Bingley, bd- on the 23rd at Cross-
flats Aged
,, 24 2 Mary Millner, wife of John Milner of
Harden, in the p'ish of Bingley, b4- on
the 27th at Calversike hill Aged
,, 6 4 Bachell Brigg, dau. of Thomas & Both
Brigg of Calversike hill in the township
of Kighley, b*< on the 7th at Calversike
hill, seven days old
„ A child of John & Sarah Lee of Braithwat
in the p'ish of Kighley was buried on
the 22nd of the 4th month at Calversike
hill, being still-born
„ 21 4 Mary Anderson of Hollins in the p'iah of
Kildwick, bd- on the 24th at Calversike
hill
1718 17 2 John Brigg son of Jeremiah Brigg of
Lacock in the p'ish of Kighley, b*- on
the 21st at Calversike lull, aged 21
years, 1 month
„ 14 4 Thomas Blaikey son of Thomas & Ann
Blakey, within the township of Kighley
b*« on the 17th in friends' burying-
ground at Kighley
„ 24 7 Samuell Lister son of William Lister of
Bingley, bd- on the 27th in friends'
burial-ground at Kighley, 9 months old
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 159
Year. Day. Month.
„ 9 12 Jeremiah Brigg, son of Jeremiah Brigg, of
Lacock in the p'ish of Kighley, bd- on the
13th in friends* burying ground at Calver-
sike hill In the 18th year of his age
1714 2 8 Susanna Ambler, dau. of Dennis & Dorothy
Ambler of Silsden in the p'ish of Kild-
wick, b3- on the 6th in friends' burying-
place at Calversike hill
„ 8 2 Hannah Davy, dau. of William & Hannah
Davy of Whitley-head in the p'ish of
Kildwick, b* on the 6th at Calversike hill
„ 2 8 Samuel Ambler of Silsden (Q.R.Y.)
,, 5 4 Sarah Crossley of Steeton in the p'ish of
Kildwick, bd- on the 8th at Calversike
hill, a young woman
„ 10 11 Elizabeth Bamsden of Braithwait in the
p'ish of Kighley, widdow, bd on the 14
at Calversike hill Aged
,, 17 Dennis Davy of Law-close in the p'ish
of Kildwick, b*- on the 4th at Calversike
hill, about 46 years of age
„ 16 7 Mercy Sharp of Kighley, M- on the 17th
in friends' burying-place in Kighley, a
young woman
1715 20 8 Susanna Smith, dau. of Robert & Hanna
Smith of Clough bank, in the p'ish of
Kighley, bd on the 24th in friends'
burying-place in Kighley
1716 20 4 Sarah Bothomley dau. of Jonathan
Bothomley late of Hainworth in the
p'ish of Bingley, bd on the 24th at Cal-
versike hill
„ 27 9 Margrett Wade wife of John Wade of
Steeton in the p'ish of Kildwick, bd- on
the 80th at Calversik-hill, aged 62 years
1717 6 6 Hannah Town dau. of Henry & Grace
Town, of Silsden in the p'ish of Kild-
wick, b4- on the 8th in friends' burying-
place in Kighley <
„ 80 8 John Wade, son of William & Elizabeth
Wade, cf Steeton in the p'ish of Kild-
wick, bd- on the 3rd of the 9th in friends'
burying-place in Kighley
1718 1 4 Benjamin Ambler son of Dennis & Dorothy
Ambler of Silsden in the p'ish of Kild-
wick, bd- on the 3rd at Calversike-hill,
15 years of age
160 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Yeab. Day. Month.
I „ 12 8 Mary Smith, widdow, of Lacock in the
| p'ish of Kighley, b* on the 16th at
| Calversike-hill Aged
1719 2 8 Ruth Brigg dau. of Thomas k Ruth Brigg
of Calversike-hill in the township of
Kighley, bd- on the 5th at Calversike-
hill, aged 11 years, 2 months
„ 29 1 Thomas Hopwood late of Calversike hill
within the township of Kighley, b*- on
the 1st of the 2nd month at Calversike
hill, aged 82 years
„ 8 7 Esther Bothomley, dan. of Jonathan &
Mary Bothomley of Hainworth in the
p'ish of Kighley, b*- on the 11th at Cal-
versike hill, a young woman
„ 10 8 Sarah Waddington, dau. of Mary &
Richard Waddington of Kighley, b*- on
the 12th at the meeting-house in Kigh-
ley, aged 4 months
„ 80 8 Martha Blakey, dau. of Thomas & Anne
Blakey of Kighley, bd- on the 1st of the
9th month in the burying place at
Kighley, aged 10 months
1720 24 8 Thomas Leach son of Joseph & Sarah
Leach of Steeton in the p'ish of Kildwick
bd- on the 26th in the burying place in
Kighley, 8 years of age
„ 8 6 John Widdoop of Kighley, b*- on the 10th
at Calversike hill Aged
1721 28 12 James Ramsden, child of James & Agnes
Ramsden of Braithwaite in the p'ish of
Kighley, bd- on the 2nd day of the 1st
month at Calversike hill, aged 7 months
„ 12 6 Ann Hird of Braithwait, widdow, in the
p'ish of Kighley, bd- on the 16th at Cal-
versike hill, aged 66 years
9> 80 11 Thomas Couling of Broomthwaite in the
p'ish of Kildwick, bd- on the 2nd of the
12th month ; b** at the meeting-house
in Kighley, of middle age
1722 6 7 Sarah Waddington, dau. of John & Lidia
Waddington, of Kighley, b*- on the 8th
in friends' burying-place in Kighley, 8
years & 8 months of age
To be continued.
Scarborough Congregational Cjmrtl).
J. P. Pbitchett, Archt.
J. P. Pbitchktt, Abcht.
Dtllbous* Congregational <£bttrcb.
J. P. Pbxtchett, A»CHT.
•<fio%tbam Congregational Cljjurc^.
J. P. P&XTCHETT, ABCHT.
Howley : Errata.
P. 105, Note *, for Edmund, read Edward.
„ Note (e), add, See App., Xo. HI.
115, line 15, for wife, read will.
121, line 18, add, Xo. 111.
„ „ for II Hen. Ill, read 11 Hen. III.
„ 84, add, Xo. IV.
„ 87, for 1219, read 1275.
168
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Sarille
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
169
Fbee Tradb Tract. An esteemed antiquary forwards this
rare tract of four pages, small 4to., for publication. As it bears
the signature K, it seems to have formed part of a volume of
tracts. Mr. Sykes was a Leeds merchant, and ancestor of the
Baronets of Sledmere. He died in 1652. Besides its local
interest, the pamphlet is of value as the earliest advocacy we
have seen of the principles of Free Trade.
To the Eight Honorable the high Court
of Parliament.
The humble Remonstrance of William Sykes
Merchant, for free Trade in transporting & importing
of lawfull and ncedfull commodities.
WHereas of late the Remonstrant, and Thomas Johnson
Merchant, for themselves, and on the behalfe of all
the free-men of England, did petition botli Houses of
Parliament for Free Trade; which they are confident is the
Common-wealths BIRTH-RIGHT, and reparations for
wrongs done by tJiose Ingrossers and Monopolizers, who by vertue of
Patents, have been, and are sellers of that heredi table right, as
the Company of MercJiant- Adventurers have done to Citizens for
100. 1. a man, and to Countrey people for 50. 1. a man. The
like may be said of the Company of East-countrey Merchants,
Muscovia Merchants, Turkie Merchants, and other Companies of
Merchants, who have for a long time practised this way of trade-
selling, and Monopolizing, to the great grievance of the people,
* and detriment to FREE TRADE, both at home and abroad.
^ Which Petition was presented to most Members of both Houses.
fend dispersed into the several Counties of England, that this
honorable Court may no longer delay the discharge of their
ist, but speedily improve their power to rescue FREE
IADE from such Liberty-destroyers and Trade-ingrossers, and
it the people may the better know for what end and purpose
By have adventured their lives and estates in these present
rres.
let the said Petition is not so much as publickly read in
ier House of Parliament, far lesse debated or answered,
ragh the Common-wealth be so much concerned in it, as in nothing
Ore, if the people knew their right and freedome, which this
esent Parliament hath confirmed, by the confirmation of
170 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Magna Charta, and by the executing of justice on the Earle of
Strafford for his exercising arbitrary government against the freedom
of England ; therefore the Remonstrant doth conceive, that hee
is bound in duty to follow the said petition with this Remonstrance,
which he was emboldned to present for these two ensuing
reasons, and to answer some objections, referring the conclusion
to a serious resolution.
Reas. 1. The first reason is drawn from tJie second Table of Gods
law, which commands us to love our neighbour as our selves:
This BIRTH-RIGHT OF FREE TRADE being as well
our neighbours right as our oicn, therefore we petitioned as well
for our neighbours, as for our selves.
Reas. 2. The second reason is drawn from the intent of the Pro-
testation, which we solemnly took in the presence of Almighty
God, To maintain the right and pnriledge of the people with our
lives and estates; this Free trade being all mens rigltt and pririledge
as well as our own, upon that ground we were moved to petition
as well for their right of Free "Trade, as for our own.
Obj. 1. But these Companies have been of long standing.
Ans. So have the Prelats, and so much the more wrong done
to the Common-wealth, and therefore so much the greater need
to be put down. For although robbing and taking of purses upon
the high way, be of ancient standing, yet it doth not thereupon
follow that such a practice is ever the lawfuller.
Ob. 2. But Magna Charta doth continue Bishops. (But I say,
Magna Charta doth not establish Bishops, but onely the liberties
and rights of the Church of England : and what those are, the
Scripture doth best tell us. And although BishopB be taken away,
yet the liberties of the Church established by Magna Charta, to
this very day remain,) And admits transportation of wooll.
Ans. It is one thing to pull down Bishops, and make an Act
against transporting of wool, being the desire and for the good of all;
but it is another thing to take awag the peoples BirtJi~right9 FREE
TRADE, without their consent, and to their prejudice, yea and
against many petitions of many thousands in many Parliaments
preferred for the rescuing of that right, and reparations for the
countries wrongs.
Obj. 8. But Free trade will be destructive to ilie Common-wealth.
Ans. It will bee no more destructive to Eastland, Muscoria,
Turkie, the Low-Countnes, and other places, then it is for France,
Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Scotland, which is none at all.
Obj. 4. But C loath is of another and better nature then Wine,
Ac. which are forraigne commodities.
Ans. The greater is the wrong, it being the grand inland com-
modity, so that all other Patents and Monopolies may bee better
renewed, then this continued.
Obj. 6. But Clothiers, and the like men, have not knowledge
to manage this Free Trade.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 171
Ans. If it were bo (as it is not) yet the same is occasioned by
these themes and robbers, that cunningly and secretly by a faire
but unjust and deceitfull pretence, steale the Common-wealths
right, so as they are deprived of that opportunity to educate
their children and servants, which may enable them to manage
that priviledge of Free Trade.
Obj. 6. But they are against government, and would walk
disorderly.
Ans. No, we would have both government and order in a solid
and just way, but we are against hellish oaths, unlawful fines,
sin full orders, fake imprisonment, law and right sellers, all
which are practised by these Trade-ingrossers, as will appeare by
good testimony.
Obj. 7. But no man hath followed the petition.
Am. Is it not the duty of every Trustee in the House of
Commons to prosecute the Common-wealths light, and peoples
priviledge ? But if that be the hindrance, it is the humble desire
of the Remonstrant, that Mr. Rigby, and Mr. Martin may be ap-
pointed to draw up a full Ordinance without delay, that hee or
they, whosoever they be, under what pretence or fraud soever,
may bee accursed that removes his neighbours land-mark (his Birth-
right, or Free trade) and that the Commons house may approve
themselves faithfull, and worthy the Common-wealths trust, and
according to the solemne protestation, to bring to exemplary
and condigne punishment, those who have been theeves and
robbers in this kind ; and according to an order made this pre-
sent Parliament, it is earnestly desired, that the House may be
purged of all such as are Patentees, Monopolizers, Trade-
ingrossers, Sellers of peoples right, and destroyers of the Free
Trade.
And also out of all other places of publick trust under the Par-
liament, whether in the Custome-house, Commission of Excise,
Committees in City or Countrey, Soldiery, or other government, as
Sheriffs, Treasurers, Mayors, Aldermen, and the like, who are not
worthy to be continued in any Common-wealtlis trust ; & so much
the more, by how much the longer they have practised such de-
ceitfull robbery, and to let all such as have been wronged by these
kind of men, have freedom with respect and countenance, to
prosecute against these Caterpillers, for due reparations, ac-
cording to the wrongs done by them and their Predecessors.
And if the Parliament would have the free people to fight for
them, as they have willingly done, by venturing their liveB and
estates freely, to maintain their power and priviledge against the
common enemy ; then let that power bee improved and laid out
again for tJie right and priviledge of tlie said people, to rescue and
recover their Birth-right (Free Trade) out of the hands of those
rj reedy and subtile spoylers, yea and grinders of the faces of tlie poore.
172 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
If any farther objection be made against Free trade ; then it
is earnestly desired that the House of Commons would answer it
themselves, as parties in behalfe of the free people, who have called
them to tliat trust for tJiat end ; or otherwise let the mind k sense
of the common people in every County and Corporation (all England
over) be produced, and let it go upon that, in which way the
Remonstrant is perswaded, that a hundred to one will bee for
Free Trade.
So hoping this high and Honorable Court will have due respect
to the premises, in all dutifull acknowledgement ; the Remonstrant
shall desire to prove himselfe the Common-wealths servant,
March 20. 1645. William Sykes.
FIXIS.
Old " Strikes."— Hull.—
Kingston upon Hull,
1st of March, 1798.
WHEREAS for some Days pa6t, there has been tumultu-
ous Assemblies of Seamen belonging to the different
Ships fitting out for the Greenland Seas at this Port, and by
their threats have deterred the well-disposed from doing their
duty,
Xotice is hereby given,
That if they do not instantly disperse, and repair to their
respective Stations, proper steps will be taken to preserve the
Peace, and punish the Offenders.
«J. Sykes,
MAYOR.
Printed by W. Bawson, Printer of the Hull Advertiser.
A1
HULL,
1st March, 1798.
T a Meeting of the Owners of the
GREENLAND
SHIPS,
held this oat, it was unanimously resolved, THAT if the Boat-
steerers and Line-Managers do not immediately repair to their
respective Ships, and fulfil their Engagements with Government
and their Owners, their Bonds will be put in foroe, and their
Protections will no longer secure them from the Impress.
Printed by W. Bawson, Printer of the Hull Advertiser.
C. Dack, Peterboro*.
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178
WLintsttab Cljtrrrlj.
reproduce, as a valuable contribution to local archaeo-
logy, the following speech of Sir Albert E. Rolliti
vI.P., delivered at the opening of the Bazaar in aid of
cl for the Restoration of Winestead Church.
212 ing the proceedings
Mr. J. T. Hildyard said that at the earnest request of
lay friends, and of none more so than himself, his friend
3rt Rollit had very kindly consented to open that bazaar
say a few words. He thought he might dare to predict
The Chinch of St. Germaine, Winestead. (Present condition, 1888.)
i not only would the eloquent words of their friend touch
r hearts, but what was far more difficult, would loosen their
ses, so that those who had laboured at that work, as they
Id see by looking around, so industriously and with all their
rts, would not only be rewarded for their labours, but that
restoration of the church of Winestead, of what he might
1 dear old Winestead, might be a success far beyond their
st sanguine hopes. (Applause.) Ho then introduced Sir
>ert Bollit.
Sir Albert Rollit said that he appreciated very much
ving been asked, in so complimentary and kindly a manner,
174 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
by Mr. Hildyard to open the bazaar, and, having regard to his
own family's association with Winestead, it was a great pleasure
to him to undertake that duty. Naturally his first expression
on such an occasion was one of regret that the rector, the Rev.
Mr. Mellish, who had taken so devoted an interest in the object
they had in view, was absent owing to indisposition ; but be
was glad to hear that his health was improving, and he hoped
that improvement would be increased by the news which his
family would be able to take him that the bazaar was a great
success, and conducive to the object which he, and all of them,
had in view. (Applause.) It was not necessary to endeavour
to add to the enthusiasm and interest of those who were present ;
that interest was evidenced by the admirable collection of stalls
and the articles upon them. It was, indeed, a beautiful and
tasteful scene which surrounded them, but the drama would not
be complete until the transformation scene, in which he hoped
the goods now before them would be transformed into the pre-
cious metals. (Laughter.) The fair alchemists who presided
at the stalls were quite capable of effecting this change without
any help from him, but he would remind them of an incanta-
tion of the alchemists of old, who under similar circumstances,
cried 'silvertudine-gold-if-you-can-di-bus' — a charm which he
hoped might not be without effect on the present occasion.
(Laughter.) But, great as was their enthusiasm, it was neces-
sary to add to it on the part of others, and he should, he thought,
best serve the interests of the bazaar by recounting some few
reasons why they might fairly hope that the people of Hall
would lend them their help to achieve the object they had in
view. And the help they required was that of practical
sympathy — not the help of such philanthropists as the one who
boasted that what he gave to the poor was "nothing to nobody'*
— (laughter) — or such help as that of those who gave nothing
to charity one year and doubled it the next — (laughter) — not
such help as the letter-writer who expressed every sympathy
with a benevolent cause, and then concluded the page with the
words : " I beg to subscribe " — and on the next leaf: " myself
your obedient servant." (Laughter.) What they needed was
gold and silver; the "oil and twopence;" and, though they
trusted in Providence, they did not trust so far as to think
Providence would do the work for them. His first claim for
help, then, was based upon the religious character of their
object. He should of course say no single word politically, bat
they might depend upon it that, in perhaps even the near future,
their Church would be judged by the work which it was doing
and had done for God and for the people, and, without this, no
antiquity, no authority, no prestige, and no Establishment
would save it. For the object of a State Church — though not
to make the Church political— was to make the State religious,
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 175
3 it subserved this end it would be judged — and fall,
moment was one in which he might warn them that
to deal much with irrehgion in various forms. In
ligion was designed and thoughtful ; in more it was
t of carelessness; and in many even of affectation.
it might be true that, in one sense, there were as
igions as there were thoughtful minds, this was a broad
sh often ended in irreligion— in irreligious nihilism.
the present moment, a more dangerous attack than
L, he thought, been made upon revealed religion. In
Elsmere " there was a book marked by very great
>y the charms of language and of literary style, and by
;ight into human character ; yet this book, from its very
>ns, was, he thought, an insidious attack upon their
that it sought to strengthen religion by the destruction
hief evidences. He did not for a moment say that, for
son, they were not to read it ; for he had no sympathy
oughtless faith ; but it must be read carefully if at all,
eemed to him to mark an epoch in the irreligious ten-
of modern life — to which one of the best answers and
es was the completion of such a work as that in which
ere engaged. (Applause.) And, perhaps, the chief local
. upon which help might be claimed, was that Winestead
I was at once a religious and historical memorial. Her
tes were the glory of Holderness. Patrington, that
id specimen of the Decorated style, had, by the efforts of
of them, been restored to its former self, and its spire,
had been for ages one of the landmarks of mariners
Lg for Hull — one of the signs of haven, and home, and
would endure again for centuries to come. (Applause.)
same the turn of the more lowly Winestead. And here
was indeed need of new work. They could hardly fail at
to think with pride of the great architects and masons of
ast, who had spread such splendid monuments of work and
free throughout the land ; yet, just as they saw the Monu-
in London — even the work of a Wren — gradually falling
pieces, so the more ancient edifices must even more require
vation. At Winestead the south aisle had wholly gone, and
irehes were embedded in the present external wall. And
ywhere decay was obtrusively evident. What they proposed
a really conservative restoration, the literal reproduction
II that was good in the ancient edifice, and the introduction
lothing which was not consistent with the former fabric—
4 19th Century Gothic " which was not in accordance with
best architectural skill and taste. They had the guarantee
iliis in the architect, Mr. Temple Moore, and affairs were so
leful that of the total cost of about £1,800 the committee had
eady secured more than £1,000. But there were other and
176 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
even stronger local claims. Winestead Church was the mother-
church of the Marvels. The parish register recorded the induc-
tion of the father as rector, and the baptism of the son — Hull's
greatest son — (applause) — and the font in which he was
baptised, and which had served as a horse-trough, had been
recovered and would be restored to its original position and
purpose in the church. The church was thus the monument of
Marvel, the poet ; of Marvel, the political satirist who influenced
the morals of an immoral age ; and of Marvel, the statesman,
who was incorruptible in corrupt and venal times. He remem-
bered that, in preaching the Jubilee sermon before the House
of Commons, the learned and eloquent Bishop of Ripon had
illustrated English statesmanship by two Hull names — Marvel
and Wilberforce — the names of men who were great in states-
manship because they placed before themselves the noble aim
of the greatest good of their country, and the welfare of the
poorest and humblest of their fellow-men. (Applause.) These
were the remembrances of Marvel which they could not too
often recall, but he was reminded, as a. member of Parliament,
that there were incidents in the times of Marvel which were
unfortunately beyond recall — for instance the early hours' of
which Marvel lamented that the sittings of the House of Com-
mons were so protracted that they sometimes rose so late as
six in the afternoon, — (laughter) — and some of them, Marvel
among them, were paid for this— (laughter). Again, the history
of church was the history of the Hildyards — a family who were
helping them that day, and one which well illustrated the con-
tinuity of English history. For they had been associated with
the church since at least the reign of Henry V. — for some four
centuries and a-half, and even earlier, through the Hiltons,
with whom they intermarried and who went back nearly to the
Conquest. There was a brass effigy in the church of the hero
of one of the most attractive stories of English history — of that
Hildyard, who, as Eobin of Biddlesdale, fought well in the
Wars of the Roses, and even sheltered his sovereign, Queen
Margaret ; another recumbent statue, that of Christopher
Hildyard, was one of the most perfect and beautiful examples
of renaissance art ; and there were alao memorials of other
members of a family, some of whom distinguished themselves
in the Civil War fighting for their King ; some of whom lived
in Hull in the Lowgate Palace of the De la Poles ; others of
whom married daughters of the Mayors of Hull ; and one of
whom stepped forth from the English army at the challenge of
a Scotch giant, and like one of the Horatii or Curiatii put the
fortunes of two armies to the touch of single combat, and, like
a David, slew his man and returned a victor and a knight
banneret to the English ranks. (Applause.) Others of the
same distinguished family had been antiquarians and authors,
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e tilings bad been one of tbe inducements to bimself
rs to help to make tbeir cburcb a worthy memorial of
g, lusty, and learned lineage. (Applause.) Might he
just one word to remind them that he and others had
• claim upon them, and as great an inducement, in the
b those whose memories were dear to them had also
ociated with Winestead Church ; that there were lying
cue who represented the modern, as others the ancient,
English progress, some in whom they took pride for
borious ascent, as others were rightly proud of their
scent, of the ancestors who had gone before them?
se.) Lastly, there was a claim for help which was at
'he Church of St. Germaine, Winestead. (Proposed Restoration.)
local and general. There was no more remarkable scene
istory than that one in the market place at Eome, when
9 Gregory asked who were those fair-haired captives that
been carried into slavery? To the reply, "They are
;lish," he returned: " Non Angeli, sed Angli," — ("Not
rlieh, but Angels ;") and when he was told they were from
ra— " Not," said he "from Deira, but de irk — saved from
wrath of God to the salvation that is to come." Hence
ang the mission of St. Augustine, and so the evangelisation
England, and through England of the world. Aid it was
ibably from our own Holderness that such captives had been
f.N.Q. M
178 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
taken. Surely such a history merited some return ; surely it
called for some memorials in the very cradle of English Christ-
ianity ! (Applause.) One such they now sought to restore in
Winestead Church. And for this they asked their aid, they
begged even the smallest aid, from all. The Christian Legend
told of the reward of such humble help. An Emperor built his
church— the great memorial of his life. The inscription of his
name was to tell this to all time. But all in vain. Amid the
blast of trumpets and the march of men, one name blazed forth
in letters of golden light— Euphrasia. The whole city had to
be searched to drag to light the poor widow whose name had
thus supplanted that of Justinian, and her contribution to St.
Sophia was found to be only this — that she had cast one 6traw
before the oxen which had dragged the marble to the temple.
So here, and in all such works, the humblest offering was ac-
ceptable to God, and, though many had done much, and while
he himself had been asked to put the final and the smallest
touch to others' labour, they begged the many to open their
hearts, and to take their part with them in the great and good
work of restoring a memorial and memorable church. (Load
Applause.)
The Bazaar realized its object, and secured the Restoration
of the Church.
The Restoration Committee consists of the following gentle-
men:
WALTER S. BAILEY, Esq., D.L. J.P.
J. B. T. HELDYARD, Esq., J.P.
REV. H. MAISTER, M.A.
WALTER MARSHALL, Esq.,
REV. W. J. MELLISH, M.A.
SIR ALBERT K. ROLLIT, LL.D. M.P.
REV. C. J. WALL, M.A.
CAPTAIN T. C. DOUGLAS WHITMORE.
[Reprinted by permission from " The Hull Christmas Annual, I888.'n
Hull, Tutin.
Winestead, near Hull, was held ten generations by the Hiltons,
until by failure in the male line it passed by a coheiress to the
Hildyards, temp. Hy. V. The arms of the Hildyards are azure,
three mullets, or. The crest was originally a reindeer proper
on a wreath, but now it is, On a wreath, a cock, sable, beaked,
legged and wattled, gu., which is said to have been granted for
bravery at Cockbridge, or Towton. A long and interesting
account of the family is given by Poulson, (Holdtimess, Vol. H.l
The Hiltons bore two bars azure, Argent. These will be found
on the magnificent monument and windows. Near Sir Chris-
topher Hildyard's altar tomb is a mutilated stone effigy of an
Winestead Church, 1820.
Hildyard.
Hildyard.
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Effigy, at Winestead.
A. Marvel, M.P.
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^^W ^^B^^_ d -
ecclesiastic, both his hands
clasped in prayer, and a
crockelled canopy over his
head.
The great Andrew Marvel
was born here; his father
being Rector, but removed in
1624 to become Eeader at
Trinity Church, Hull.
As will be seen by the
names of the Committee, the
old families are still to the
fore.
Rollit Crest.
Jltxttbtimljolttu Cross.
I send you the following account of a very curious and most
ancient cross, which I have had recently set up in the Church
yard here.
The history of it, as far as I am concerned, is this —
It consists of two portions, and I think there may have been
a third, now embedded somewhere in one of the walls of the
Church.
I could not but be aware of its previous existence from the
first day I came here, for one portion of it was built side-ways
into the then antique-modern tumble-down Porch, and the
second was found in restoring the walls of the Church when I
had it restored by Mr. Gilbert Scott (his father's son,) and
thoroughly well done, with new roof, solid oak pews to the
nave, choir* stalls, pulpit, reading desk, communion table, etc.
Mr. Charles H. Wilson, of Warter Priory, kindly had it set
up for me, on a good basement stone, by his masons, then
working at the Priory, and the son of one of them being very
clever at drawing made me the copies which I enclose herewith.
I send the letters of three clergymen, all of them being learned
in such matters. F. 0. Morris.
Cambridge,
September 8rd, 1887.
Dear Sir,
I looked at the sketches before reading your attribu-
tion of the subjects. We agree as to Aaron and the Virgin Mary.
It occurred to me that No. 2 with the fully developed pair of
horns might mean Moses, but the Virgin's hair is almost as
much like a pair of horns; and (remembering a remarkable font
near Mr. Mant's) that the seated figure might mean Herod
drawing his sword for the slaughter of the young child. If the
182 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
numbers 1, 2, 8, and 4, correspond to successive faces, yon
would then have the usual arrangement, Christian subjects on
two opposite faces, and other subjects on the other pair of faces.
I do not know what the traditional belief of Coifi's appear-
ance in sacerdotal vestments may have been in your neighbour-
hood ; possibly No. 4, represents the pagan and priest, and No.
2, may have some characteristic feature which the draughtsman
has missed, with a pagan reference : in that case 8 would be
the Virgin and Christ, and one might be Edwin. One natural-
ly looks for some local reference. I should suspect the thing
in the arch above the head of the un-characteristic figure in No.
2, of being a dragon lying on its back ; if that is so the pagan
reference on No. 2 and 4, would be rather strong, perhaps not
strong enough to upset Aaron.
If the scrolls and trumpets (?) in the spandrils are correctly
shewn, the work looks late and the bosses on the pillars and
arch and ties in No. 2 look like the period of Anselm's work at
Canterbury : I have however found bosses in earlier work than
that, and I think that Anglian sculptors used them sometimes.
The scrolls in the head of 8, with the birds, ace probably not
correct ; they should be more continuous, wrapping round the
wings and passing on unbroken. This particular piece of
work would probably help to the date as well as any other part.
Mr. Collins referred some questions on his K. Burton cross
to me some time ago. I have written a good many papers on
the subject of these long stones, and I have no doubt that some
at least were originally preaching crosses. But yours looks to
me decidedly later than that.
Canon Raine has a good many fragments in the Hospitium.
It is very interesting to learn that there is such a stone on
your side of York. When Ooodmanham Church is restored, I
quite expect they will find very interesting Anglian remains.
When I drove a year or two ago to Goodmanham and on to
Pocklington, we passed a church with its roof off, Skelton— I
think, where they had found remarkably massive early corbels,
built into the walls. But I know of no sculptured stones in
your sector of the circle round York. The Wharfe abounds
in them.
I do not understand whether the drawings you sent are of
one only of the pieces you have. Next time I come to York, I
I must try to get over. The upper parts of No, 1, 2, 4, are un-
like all of the large number of stones I know.
Yours truly,
G. F. Bbowke.
The Rev. R. Collins, Kirkburton, concurs in Mr. Browne's
statements.
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Wbeay Vicarage, Carlisle,
September 25th, 1888.
I send you my interpretation of the carvings as I gather
their meaning from the drawings you have sent me. I take
the subjects in the order you give*
No. I. — The seated figure represents S. James the Great to
whom the Church is dedicated. After his murder by King
Herod Agrippa, his body was miraculously conveyed to Spain,
and enshrined at Compostella, which from that circumstance
became a great resort of pilgrims. He is generally depicted in
pilgrim's weeds, flapped hat, wallet, bourdon or staff, and scallop
shells, and as a young man, with thin beard and a family like-
ness to our Lord. Here we find him as a young man, with thin
beard, large flapped hat, his short pilgrim staff between his legs,
and the sword of his martyrdom in his left hand. The tight-
fitting trousers, cocked hat, and sturdy stick remind one of a
picture of a pilgrim in Erasmus's " Mora Encomium."
The sides of the compartment are formed by pilgrims' staffs
and shells, and at the top we have a combination of shells and
staffs foreshortened so as to fit the space.
No. II. — In accordance with the subjects on Nos. VI. & Vlf.,
I take this to be a representation of S. Margaret of Antioch.
Why she should be here, I know not, possibly because her
festival (July 20th) fell within a week of S. James1 Day. She
was a very popular saint, and very many Churches are dedicated
to her. Long Marten in Westmorland is to her and S. James'
the Less ; and both saints are indicated in the carvings on the
Tympana of two Norman doors there. The interpretation of
these stones I laid before the Cumberland and Westmorland
Antiquarian Society in January, 1881. A portion of the legend
of S. Margaret will be found under VI. & VII. The horse-shoe
nimbus is found on Scottish stones and has recently been
discovered on a Hog-back stone in Lowther Church-yard, West-
morland. Over the arch which surmounts the figure, in
a horse-shoe shaped compartment, we have, I think, a repre-
sentation of the hydra or water snake emerging from the jaws
of the crocodile. Ancient Bestiaries say that in the Nile there
is deadly feud between these two. The hydra rolls itself in the
mud, and enters the sleeping crocodile's jaws, who unconsciously
swallows it. Then the hydra bursts the crocodile asunder and
comes forth alive. This is a parallel story to S. Margaret's
escape from the Dragon. Both may be regarded as parables of
our Saviour's bursting the bonds of Hades at His resurrection.
No. III.— The Virgin and Child. The Virgin's Head is sur-
mounted by a nimbus similar to that in No. II. Over the arch
are two bird-like figures. These may represent the two turtle-
doves offered at our Lord's presentation in the Temple. If the
186 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
figures are compound, birds* beads and serpentine bodies, they
may signify tbe christian character combining the wisdom of
the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. Possibly photos,
or better drawings might enable one to speak more certainly on
this.
No. IV. — This may be intended for Aaron ; but why he
should be here I cannot tell, unless it be that he was the first
High Priest of the Old Covenant, as 6. James was the first of
the Apostles to die. Shells and bourdons are in the spandrils.
No. V. — S. James in sacred robes, not pilgrim garb. From
his neck is suspended a " Rationale " or " Pectoral " — a square
plate of gold or silver, jewelled and enamelled, sometimes worn
by Bishops on the breast over the chasuble at Mass, till the
14th century. It is found in Bishop Gyffard's effigy at Worcester,
and in that of Laurence St. Martin, Bishop of Rochester, a.d.
1274. It took the place of the Jewish High Priest's breastplate.
It is still used in the Holy Eastern Church. Eusebius tells us
that S. John wore the plate of gold, and Epiphanius says the
same of S. James. Below the Pectorale hangs the pilgrim's
wallet with pendent scallop shells. Between these last appear
a curious article which I am inclined to think is a "Monstrance."
On an incised 12th century slab at Marrick in Yorkshire, we
have a similar object combined with Chalice, Book, and Corporas
Case or square Patten. It appears again between the feet of
the cowled figures in No. VIII.
The lower half of this compartment represents a scene from
the 2nd and 3rd Lections for S. James's Day in the York
Breviary. There we are told that Hermogenes, a Magian, sent
his disciple Philetus to dispute with S. James the truth of the
true Sonship of our Lord. The apostle converted Philetus to
the Faith; and Hermogenes in consequence bound him, and
said to him " Let us see if thy James can loose thee from these
bonds." News of this reaching S. James, he immediately sent
his " sudarium " by means of which Philetus's bonds fell from
him, and he was released. The dexter naked figure represents
Philetus, the sinister clothed one, S. James, between them is a
desk on which a copy of the gospels is displayed, and over the
figures appear the bonds of Philetus curling away in the air.
The two insect looking figures in tbe lower corners may be
intended for the demons whom Hermogenes afterwards sent
against James and Philetus ; and who were bound by an angel
and tortured.
No. VI. — Here again we have S. James, as a pilgrim, sitting
in a chair, holding the book of the gospels in his hand. In
front appears his staff, longer than in the other instances, and
his wallet partially appears on the margin of the compartment.
The figure below is intended to represent S. Margaret of
Antioch bursting out from the Demon who had devoured her.
See No. II. The story is continued in the next panel.
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No. VII. — The lower portion gives us another phase of the
Margaret legend. We see her sitting in prison (whither she
had been committed by the tyrant Olybrius) ; and the devil is
appearing to her as a dragon, but cannot frighten her. She
overcame him by the power of the cross. One version of the
story makes him swallow her, and she bursts forth from his
body, as pictured on No. VI. After sundry tortures S. Margaret
was decapitated and her soul escaped from her body in the form
of a dove. This accounts for the bird in the upper portion of
this panel.
No. VIII. — Two cowled naked figures sitting opposite each
other on stools, and each holding an inverted pastoral staff in
his hand. Above are three short staffs. Between the feet of
the figures stands, what I have supposed in No. V., to be a
41 Monstrance."
Here we have, I think, an allusion to local history. I take
the figures to be intended for S. Chad and S. Bosa, both natives
of the district, who held in turns the see of York in the absence
of the turbulent Wilfrid. Each in turn on Wilfrid's return from
exile, was stripped of the Bishopric, and this is indicated by
their being represented naked with reversed staffs. Chad be-
came ultimately Bishop of Lichfield, and Bosa resumed York.
These changes may be indicated by the Crosiers which seem to
be floating in the air.
I trust, my dear sir, you may find this or some portion of it
a satisfactory explanation of the venerable relic.
Thomas Lees.
November 29th, 1888.
The last of. the series which the mason represents as two
naked cowled Monks, Mr. Hall renders in such a way as to
make it look like the temptation of Adam. This is a common
subject on such crosses. I take the work to be 12th century,
and of the time when the Church was appropriated to Wartre.
Possibly the original Church was dedicated to St. Margaret;
and St. James was added as being the Patron of the Monastery.
Thomas Lees.
Cattail's |tark Coins*
A Catalogue by Richard Gough, Esq., (4 to., 23 pages,
London, 1777, with folding plate,) gives the following Yorkshire
particulars. He says, " Mr. White has six or seven coins of
Canute ; of which five varieties on both sides are ranged at the
bottom of the annext plate. He has communicated to me the
mint-masters and places on others which have passed through
his hands. Mr. Bartlett* has two. The Puke of Devonshire,
i — •
*A celebrated numismatist of Bradford, Yorkfl. — J.H.T.
188 Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
thirty-eight. Dr. Hunter, twenty- eight. The British Museum
has fifteen." "A Danish medallist has observed that no coins
of Canute are to be met with of any other than English mints,
notwithstanding he reigned two years longer in his own country
than over England, which he governed nineteen years. He
sometimes used Rex Anglorum, to court the good-will of his
new subjects, and he also engaged more mint-masters and
places than any other King, probably with the same object."
Mr. Gough gives engravings of about fifty coins, which in-
clude the following York specimens.
9. 10. 9 CRINVLF ON E-OF [The letters in It-
11. * IFVLNOTfl ON EOFE alios we have sub-
12. |J< OTjHIN ON EOFERJFI stituted for Saxon
18. ^ tfODMAN ON EORC characters.]
On the title page is the engraving of a coin bearing Canute's
head and sceptre : ►£< CNYT R EOFE ; and at page 10
is another engraving : >$< CETELM - OEFRJPIC ; annulets in
centre, to form the usual cross.
In 1774 a large number of Canute's coins were discovered
near Kirkwall in Orkney, amongst which were found 87 York
examples: EOF. (24). *RE0X
(1) COLfflRIM)^ Wn .
(2) CRVCAN |Dr- Hunter
(8) CRINVLF
(1) EEWINE
(5) EGELT^INE
(2) ELFJFINE q. Elfnan mo Eofr., Drake 88.
REECX (1 ) FERjTH EIN Farthein mo Eofr., Drake 82.
REC'X (1) RODMAN
REX (7) NILDVLF
(1) THEOR&IGE
Earngrim on Eo ) also given by Keder,
Outhgrim mo Eof) Drake, Spelman.
EOFE. (29). CNVT R [EOFE] J
(2) COLGRIM
(1) RODMAN
RECX (1) EtfELTFINE
(1) VBITHCOL
REX (8) GRVCAN Recx A
CRVCA mon Eofe., weight 16 gr.
in the possession of Francis Smith,
Esq., York, (a numismatist of re-
pute,) and of Duke of Devonshire.
(2) NILDVLF
♦CNVT is given each time before REX.
\ King of York is too good ; it is probably a mere repetition of the place of
mintage, as in the following one EORC. — J.H.T.
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189
BECX
BECX g|
BEECX £l
(7)
(1)
&}
NLDVLF
BEFEN
RINVLF Dr. Hunter gives
Ti/VRIN
TtfVRtfRIM
WYL-mTH
CINVLF ON
[EOFE.
BE CX
BEX
BECX
BEX AN
Sunolf mo Eofr., Drake 81.
(one has BECX A)
Keder, 149.
„ 186-
Roefen, Drake 84.
EOFEB (25) BECX (4) BEORN
(2) GODMAN
(5) cRVCAN
(2) OTtfAN
(2) OTHW
(4) OTHTHIS
(1) BEFEN
(8) VGEDE
(2) WVLNOT/f Wulfnoth, Drake, &e.
Bedrn on Eofr. Edinburgh.
Getel o Eoferw. Ketel.
Cetel mo Eofrwic, wt. 16J gr.
Mr. Smith of York; Gross of
Annulets.
Grinan mo Eofr. Devonshire,
Drake.
Grimolf mo Eofr. Eetel.
Hildulf on Eofer. Bodleian
Hildulf mo Eofer. Wormii
Wulstan mo Eofr. Late Mr.
Fleming of Wakefield.
EOFEBTKI (8) BECX (1) 0THI8
(7) BEFEN
EOBC (1) CNVT B[EOFE] GODMAN
Leodmer on Rue, noted by Spelman, may be Line, Wine, or
Richmond. Mr. Thoresby had the coin, Due Lead, p. 847. It
is now in Mr. White's collection.
The Duke of Devonshire has one of Canute's coins, . . . Bipo.
Withrin mo Eofrw. Gnut Bex Angl.
Yulemer on Eofr. Gnut Bex Anglor.
Arncetel o Eo.
Wulnoth mo Eoferw. Gnut in field of Corn.
Beported in Lane-
rent z en's Jacob*
Mus. Begium.
Hob* (tote (Sill or Itotohir (gill (ftatrcrtt.
Thinking my description of this cave which appeared in the
"Kendal Mercury and Times" of the 27th of April, 1888, might
interest your readers and be an addition to the former notices of
the kind, I take the liberty of forwarding it with slight altera-
tions. Not being aware of any prior publication noticing it, I
should be pleased by information on this point.
190 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Though not possessing the greater sublimity of its larger
brethren, Dove Cote Gill affords the most imposing specimen
of its kind in the district. — Two or three smaller ones are -with-
in a mile of it, but of much inferior ffimensions ; one or two
may be found in Dent.* I do not remember any within the
strict boundary enclosing the Lake District. That these remarks
may lead to approximate correctness of idea I give my measure-
ments, which if taken by another would vary very little. This
cavern of carboniferous limestone formation is about three miles
distant, in an easterly direction, from Sedbergh Station, on
the London and North Western Railway, and two miles beyond
the ancient market-town of Sedbergh. Dove Cote Gill Farm
is in the Sedbergh hamlet of Dowbiggin, a mile up the left
hand lane which joins the Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen high-
way at the bridge (Straight Bridge) over the River Rawthey, a
tributary of the Lune. " Leaving the hard beaten track the
traveller is amply repaid for his labours, &c," is the registered
phraseology used in sketches of this kind. I do not apply it to
the present case, yet my imperfect account must nevertheless
suffice to form a judgment from. A small stream finds its
way through this underground curiosity, and for a quarter of a
mile below its exit, traverses most interesting scenery of well
wooded gill, rocky waterfall, and dell, before amalgamating its
waters with the Clough, otherwise the Garsdale stream which
joins the Rawthey a little below Straight Bridge. The course
of water before entering the cave for a much shorter distance,
commencing at Baugh Fell Common, is an irregular rocky
gulley. This end of the cavern whether viewed from its
interior, or from edge of precipice far exceeds in picturesque-
ness the lower extremity. Before entering, notice the
tower-like portions of this rocky cavity, one covered with fern,
moss and ivy, on the left ; the foliage of overhanging trees
above gully and well of entrance ; and the almost perpend-
icular sides of cave, coated with moss and lichen, beautify the
Dantesque grandeur of the massive entrance. This opening is
some 82 feet in height and 12 to 15 feet in width. For 190
feet these dimensions lessen almost imperceptibly, and the
floor of cavern gradually slopes. The two passages in this
length will be noticed later on. Declevity of outlet is not so
sudden, and two or three times longer ; the bed of stream, less
confined, here and there is a large detached piece of rook which
have apparently fallen from the rock face round entrance, into
the stream or on its banks. The usual hazel bushes, &c, are
not wanting for completing this choice picture. At the foot of
•Of these one is at Hebblethwaite Hall, some (scarcely deserting the name)
are on the banks of the Clough where it joins tne Frostbrow Common. Be-
yond the mile radius of Dove Cote Gill is one of little moment at Gibbs Hall,
in Dent, I believe.
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an almost vertical narrow face, composed of rock, shale and
earth, this outlet appears. From here for the sake of ease, and
other end exhibiting the more pleasing exit, will determine the
order of particularizing its internal arrangement, also for conven-
ience my description will be in three sections. The total length
of this limestone cavern is (roughly) 820 feet, and those willing
to submit to the uncomfortable position it occasionally affords,
will, I imagine, be gratified by its picturesqueness. What
extra difficulty is caused in traversing the confined central
chamber will give a relish to the superb effect of the ending.
Fibst Section,
Of 145 feet in length, has a gravelly base, its rocky bottom
shewing to a trifling extent ; now and then the rounded corners
of sides abruptly protrude, their surfaces occasionally covered
with incrustation, though the stalactitic pendants and pillars
are wanting. Bather nearer outlet than halfway is a skylight
(or series of lights when a cavity at the ground above is clear
of debris) on left hand side, 15 feet to outside. The sloping
bottom of this opening permits creeping to the open air (being
oblique, the distance is 35 feet). (When facing the two apert-
ures, above cavity is the left-hand one as viewed from the
outside. In clearing this cavity, which goes about a dozen feet
into the rock, a quantity of bones were found deposited in the
damp soil of its floor, and intermixed with loose fragments of
rock. Chiefly being those of domestic animals and game, it
pointed to the surmise that at some period it had been the
habitat of one of the smaller carnivora.) About 112 feet from
entrance is a gently slanting rock on left hand side. From this
point of vantage, rays of light can be seen coming into the
cave, through opening of roof on each side of this position, and
also from entrance. The direction of this, 145 feet is almost
straight, making allowance for a little meandering, and only
occasionally the slightest stooping is necessary.
Second Section,
This is the least tempting portion to venture through, and
from its confined nature, and difficulties to be surmounted,
most people decline continuing their explorations and return
the same way as they came. From right hand light which
terminates last section, the present one takes a direct line to
to the left, at a little less than a right angle to first section.
The commencing 27 feet is an extremely limited rocky gallery,
with smooth sides, &c, not sufficiently high to stand upright
in, its slanting sides make the water-way narrow, and oblige
the use of shoulders and arms to prevent getting the feet wet,
as well as aiding in locomotion. Towards its termination, or
rather at ending of the 27 feet, is a large piece of rock across
lower part of cavity, the water at its foot is slightly wider and
192 YORKSHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES,
of increased depth. It varies from a foot to 4 feet 6 inches or
so. After not a little stretching to get over the rock, yon enter
a 12 feet gravelly passage, in which things do not much im-
prove, the feet being released is compensated by less room for
body. This passage terminates in a sanded np crevice, similar
to others in cave. On right hand side a yard or two from the
end the last section begins.
Thibd Section,
After a search at a right angle to above, the unenticing
escape from its enchantment presents itself. In availing of
this escape the explorer finds it necessary to all but creep the
first yard or two, as the roof is low and gravel accumulated.
This section is about 180 feet long and 19 feet from creeping
place, the cavern separates into two passages. The left hand
and larger one at midway has a sudden step in its floor with
pool at base, making it not so suitable for exit as the smaller
passage, the end of which rises possibly as much as the step,
but dispenses with pool and is more gradual in its ascent. At
the conclusion of junction of these 80 feet long passages com-
mences the admirable effect mentioned in the earlier portion of
this article. Some 85 feet to 40 feet farther on the right hand
is the outlet for finishing this journey. Its use was formerly
very incommodious, as the greater portion of the opening in
the 12 feet thickness of rock was barely sufficient to allow a
person to squeeze through.
Permission to see the cave can be obtained from Mr. 8. Udale
at the farm-house. By his instructions the exit has been
greatly facilitated, and to get outside a little stooping is all
that is necessary. Mr. G. Nelson, stonemason, Sedbergh, took
the contract for making this improvement. After working with
his men for some time, blasting the rock proved rather tedious
so he threw the job up, but his son James with the able aid of
his uncle James exhibited the proverbial Yorkshire pluck and
energy by carrying out Mr. Udale's instructions to a successful
issue. The cavern makes a most peculiar turn in its last two
sections as found by comparing inside by outside measurements.
From skylight dividing first and second sections to renovated
exit, the inside is some 140 feet long, while the outside is only
88 feet. The general contour is in a south-westerly direction
This interesting curiosity is in a district celebrated for the
romantic beauty of its natural features. The present one
would quite hold its own by the side of Stock Gyll Force or
Dungeon Gill.
Another type of refreshing scenery in this locality is Cantley
Scarr and Waterfall, which are within easy distance of
Sedbergh.
T. Hbwetson, Weabdale, Ravenstonedal*-
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SOME ACCOUNT OP THE
PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY'S, HONLEY;
By Mbs. Mary A. Jagger.
" The decent Church, that topt the neighbouring hill."— Goldsmith.
Antiquarians have been accused of making something out of
nothing, and sauce to it. Perhaps what often passes for truth
may only be conjectures ; but the suppositions cf a thinking
and penetrating mind may in time become undoubted truths.
Even if wonderful traditions are now accepted with reserve,
they are helpful in forming our opinions ; and though we live
not in the dark ages, when people " held each strange tale de-
voutly true," yet traditions and superstitions are like the dragon
— hard to kill, and when supposed to be killed still crawls on.
As far as possible I shall endeavour not to stumble upon many
errors ; nor quote from mythical authorities. Even with these
precautions, mistakes may occur ; and acute people, who are
now more rank than those whose ancient faith knew no guile,
may pounce down upon me.
The Jews kept the registers of their genealogies, — the pedi-
gree of the house of their fathers ; and if every family had done
the same, what a halo of romance would rest over those old
chronicles ! what a grand biography of the past and gone ! Did
not the Jews write down each detail relating to their temples,
and forms of worship ? Almost every girl and boy in my village
could tell me something about the building of Solomon's
Temple, with its vast army of labourers — hewers of stone and
wood, skilful artificers in precious stones, gold and brass. Are
not the cedar and fir trees of Lebanon used in its construction
as familiar to them by description, as the trees of their own
hill-sides ? Have they not read of that great and solemn feast
— the Dedication of the Temple to God's worship and glory ?
Could they give me an outline of the history of their own
Temple, — the village Church — under whose shadow they first
drew breath ? I trow not, for we are apt to look upon things
that daily life has made familiar to us with indifference. It is
only when like the aged prophet we say —
" But as for me
I would that I were gathered to my rest,"
that we, too, think of the past, that now out of reach misty be-
hind. How many a weary Pilgrim repeats the request of the
aged Jacob — " Bury me with my fathers ! "
The history of a Church is the history of a place ; for the
associations that cling around an ancient edifice, are closely
interwoven with the lives of the people around it. Those who
worship one Master, though they cannot consent to do so in
company, must agree with me on this point.
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We will take a retrospect of those old memories that entwine
themselves around our own Church.
St. Mary's Church has not that mellow tint npon its walls
that old age alone can bestow. No hanging ivy, or many
coloured lichens creep around the tower. No storied windows
of dead and gone heroes cast their opal lights upon the aisles
below ; nor are banners and gauntlets, once trophies and chal-
lenges of chivalrous combat, suspended from its walls. A
stranger, on entering the 9acred edifice, would at once know
that the present Church is a comparatively modern building,
whose architecture is of a plain but pure style. What history
then can this modern erection possess ?
Is there not a " tale in everything ? "
This is the third edifice built upon the old foundation, that
has looked down upon the changes of the village.
In Domesday-book (Bawdwen's Translation) we read— "In
Haneleia and Meltham (Honley and Meltham) Cola and Suuen
held four Carucates of land to be taxed, where three ploughs
might be employed. Ilbert now has it, but it is waste. T.R.E.,
value forty shillings. Wood-pastures two miles long, and a
mile and a half broad."
Suuen was a Thane; a term signifying one of the Saxon
nobility. He appears to have been deprived of his lands at
Honley by the Norman invaders. The Ilbert named was the
great and powerful Ilbert-de-Laci, unto whom Suaen's lands
were given.
As the village had not a tribe like unto Zebulun who " handle
the pen of the writer" my information of Honley about this
time is very scanty. Unless I quote from self, the reader must
take a leap to the time of Edward III. We then read of a
Richard Waley, the Lord of Honley. He joined in the rebellion
against Edward III, and followed the most powerful nobleman
of that period, — The Earl of Lancaster. The latter wan be-
headed in his own Castle at Pontefract ; but Richard Waley,
Lord of Honley was pardoned. His life, however, was only
spared on condition that he became a faithful and obedient
subject. Richard Waley had all his lands confiscated, and was
fined 2,000 marks.
If Honley came under the critical survey made by William
the Conqueror, it must have been of some importance ; and no
doubt a religious edifice of some kind stood in the village. The
highways leading into the place, still designated as " gates/* all
point to the Church as the common centre to which they led ;
also the field-paths leading from some isolated house, fold, or
hamlet, now merged into public roads, — " rights of way M for
ever to the inhabitants. Honley Feast whose origin was the
festival of the dedication of the Church, is still faithfully
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honoured by the inhabitants. During the time of the Com-
monwealth it was not discontinued; though bo many wakes
and feasts were then prohibited.
The origin of the earliest Chapel dedicated to St. Mary, is
however lost in the mist of antiquity. It can be proved that it
existed before the Eeformation, and was then an Oratory, or a
place for private devotion. The first document relating to this
structure is a Latin Faculty, granted by Archbishop Savage,
Primate of England. The following is a translation of this
quaint faculty, originally written in Dog-Latin.
"Faculty for the Celebration op Mass in the Chapel of
Honley, 18th Year of Henry VII, A.D. 1508.
"Thomas, by Divine permission Archbishop of York, Primate
of England, Legate of the Apostolic See, to the beloved children
in Christ the natives of the Villages or Hamlets of Houndsley,
Meltham and Crossland, (Honley, Meltham and Crossland) in
the parish of Almondbury, in the Diocese of York, to the
inhabitants greeting, in our Saviour's embrace. Since we have
had lately information from true source, that the real Parish
Church of Almondbury aforesaid is far distant from the
places or hamlets aforesaid, and that there are natives or in-
habitants of the Villages and Hamlets, broken down with age
and held with various diseases, moreover women labouring
with child, and several others of them being far distant, are by
no means able to be present to celebrate Mass on Holy and
other festivals of the Saints, and at the Canonical hours in the
said Church, in the Parish of Almondbury. We desiring to
relieve such persons, and other inhabitants of the Villages and
Hamlets aforesaid from a great and heavy labour of continually
visiting the aforementioned Parish Church of Almondbury,
hoping to maintain, that they may more frequently offer the
accustomed offerings at the Divine Services, and for the rest
may be free to attend the offices. In order that in the Chapel
of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Houndsley aforesaid, founded
and erected of old, the Mass, the Canonical hours, and other
Divine offices, may be freely and lawfully celebrated in a low
voice by some proper Chaplain or proper Chaplains, the various
vestments and expenses being furnished and found, ye may
have power, and such man may have power, while however
from thence there shall be no injury to the Parish Church
of Almondbury aforesaid. To you and your children and
servants for the hearing, and to the Chaplain, or Chaplains
aforesaid, that the Celebration of the Mass and other offices
may be carried out, Licence by the tenour of these presents
we grant. May it be confirmed by commendation to our
Spiritual Benediction. Given under our Seal in our Castle of
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Cawood on the last day bat one of March in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Five Hundred and Three, and the Third
Year of our translation."
This building sufficed for the spiritual needs of three town-
ships, viz: — Honley, (which then comprised Netherthong),
Meltham and Grassland. It was known in the village as " the
three-nooked Chapel," and was a plain flat building with three
corners. One corner pointed towards Meltham, the other in
the direction of Crossland, and the remaining corner signified
the claim of Honley along with the other two townships, to its
worship ; at least these three angles suggested that idea to the
villagers.
The late Canon Hulbert in his history of Almondbury, says,
" that from a MS in the British Museum, these verses were
formerly written in painted glass under the Kayes' arms in
this Chapel : "—
" I John Eaye, Esquire, and Justice of the Peace
The ground of this Isle doth freely release,
To joyn to this Chapel for ever and aye
That the people may have the more room to praye,
Iff wicked laws come to pull the Chapel down
Then witness I give to the poor of the town.
The Following is Anotheb Copy fbom an Old Parish Ac-
count Book. The Book beabs Date 1778.
" I John Eaye, Esquire, and Justice of Peace
The ground of this Chappell I do freely release,
This I do give for ever and aye
That people may have more room tp pray.
Iff wicked laws do pull this Chappell down
Then witness I give to the poor of the town."
Even after the Reformation penance was performed in this
Chapel. An old person still living in the village and now close
upon ninety years of age, has heard her father-in-law give an
account of his flight to London, rather than submit to the or-
deal of penance in the old Oratory. Then the distance to
London was considered of more importance than a journey
to the Antipodes would be to day. Another account is also
given of a young woman who had proved frail. To escape the
indignity of public penance on the Sunday, she left the village
on the previous Saturday evening, and walked to York Castle,
(where her father was incarcerated) with her illegitimate child
strapped upon her back.
It is interesting to know that after the Reformation, the
Roman Catholics of Honley retained their Chaplain, and met
together for worship in a building situated behind the present
row of shops, erected on the left side in Church Street going
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towards the Church. Images stood upon the mantle-shelf in
the room where they assembled, as well as other tokens of
Boman Catholic worship. There are many people yet living,
who will remember the massive old buildings that were used for
the business of tallow-chandling, before the present modern
erections took their place. To many will also come a memory,
that the overhanging gabled fronts of those old buildings, and .
their general architecture, gave unmistakable proofs of having
once been a noble Hall. The buildings were formerly occupied
by the Nettletons, one of the family of the Thornhill Nettletons;
and great benefactors to Almondbury and Honley. There was a
tradition handed down in the family of the late owner of the
property, that a petty "King had once occupied the house. I
should say that it might have been the residence of the once
Lord of Honley — Richard Waley ; or perhaps further back, the
simple wooden dwelling of Suuen the Saxon Thane stood upon
this place. At one time the Hall must have held a command-
ing situation, and overlooked a valley of rare beauty and sylvan
repose.
The old chapel also must have looked down outside upon
scenes of violence and sometimes bloodshed. Imagination can
picture those perilous times. Only a mile across the valley (as
the crow flies) stands Castle Hill. Here are the remains of an
ancient fortification. A grim Castle once frowned down upon
the little hamlets lying at its feet ; and tradition says that dark
and cruel deeds were performed in its underground dungeons.
This Castle was burnt down in the wars between Ceadwall
the Briton, and Penda the Mercian. Afterwards a castle was
built by King Stephen who gave it to Henry Lacy.
Almost a stones-throw from the old chapel would be Cross-
land Hall, where the feud between Beaumont and Elland had
such a tragic ending ; (the present Hall stands not far from the
original site).
In the still night when Elland of Elland had led his retain-
ers to Crossland Hall, the cries of warfare would be wafted over
the unenclosed wood that only intervened between the old
Chapel and the Hall.
The wide open upland known as Honley Moor, was, until
the year 1788 an unenclosed moor covered with mountain fir
trees. Cultivation does not always mean improvement ; and
its original romantic beauty, was preferable to the present un-
picturesque stone walls; set out with chess-board monotony.
Formerly, Honley Moor was a thick forest, tenanted only by
wild animals. In the time of Edward III, both red and fallow
deer were hunted there. Wolves also inhabited the moorlands,
•Hugh de Quarmby, slain by Sir John de Eland, is now spoken of as the
Xing of Quarmby.— J.H.T.
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for their haunts are still pointed oat like those of the stags ;
and kept in memory by their names.
The freeholders of Honley claimed the privilege, or right, of
cutting timber for house-boot, hainboot, plough-boot, cart-boot,
and fire-boot ; and also the getting of stones and slate, from
these moorlands until the year 1788. For this privilege, they
were required to keep the mill-dam, and dam-stakes of Honley
old water corn-mill in repair ; (better known as Honley Mill).
In 1788, the Freeholders were exonerated from making any
repairs to the mill, on condition that they abolished their rights
in respect to the cutting of timber in the lands of the Lord of
the Manor. They were however allowed to get stone and slates
in the Delf-spring, and the old Wood ; better known to the
present generation as Scot-gate-head quarries.
On the heights around lies many a brave warrior ; and over-
topping all, like grim sentinels, are the huge stones, supposed
to be the remains of Druidical worship. I say supposed ; for to
me nature appears to have been the sculptor of those massive
stones; and cycle after cycle of time, with fierce action of
storms and winds, their labourers. Whatever conjectures have
been formed about them, generation after generation have pass-
ed away, and on the conspicuous moorland known as West
Nab, are still laid these huge stones.
Not far away from West Nab, overlooking the neighbouring
valley, is the supposed ruined Temple of the Druids, with its
wonderful rocking-stone.
Pestilence, famine, and war, have gathered about the walls
of the old Chapel. We may be sure, that in the great strife
between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, many of the staunch
yeomen of Honley would not hold themselves aloof. White-
gate, an ancient bridle and pack way, tradition says, was once
held by the followers of the White Rose.
Again in the great civil warfare between Royalists and
Roundheads, when kindred were slain by kindred ; the village
would send many a sturdy volunteer to take part in these
bloody battles. As at present, the fringe of Whitley woods was
in view of the old Chapel ; and the brave Beaumont, who fought
so gallantly for his King, must have had many a Honley youth
in his train. Charles Nettleton of Honley, who was a compan-
ion of Captain Horsfall of Storthes Hall, was in Sir John
Ramsden's regiment. He fought for the Royal cause at the
battle of Marston Moor. Those who took the side of the
Parliament, would fight as nobly in its cause. We could fancy
how the village folks, all more or less akin, as they are to this
day, would watch the departure of their warriors; wishing
them God speed and victory. Then we can imagine the sor-
row and silence of the welcome back to those defeated cavaliers,
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perhaps many of them who had set out, left dead on the battle-
field of Marston Moor. And many a good yeoman's family,
would welcome back their Roundhead son who bad been spared
to them ; or mourn over one also left dead on Marston Moor ;
the summer's moon shining down upon the white upturned
faces of both Cavaliers and Roundheads. I cannot think that
the sturdy yeomen of Honley, who took part in the great civil
strife, either sung many battle- psalms, or sported any love-locks.
Again dismay and consternation would fill the minds of the
village people, when it was known that the Scotch Pretender
intended marching down upon them. The furthest point
to which the Army advanced is still pointed out ; and known
as Scot-gate head ; and the defile below is named the " sentry "
because it was guarded by sentries during that unquiet period.
According to history, the followers of the Scotch Pretender
did not advance so far. Probably some stray soldiers might
have been seen in the neighbourhood, and thus give rise to this
belief. As Honley is not rich in historical possessions ; I have
no wish if history has, to rob it of this little joy ; but " facts
are stubborn things/1
It is said that in fear of the invasion, bags of wool barricad-
ed this still precipitous road known as the " Sentry " that
extends to the church-doors. On the heights above the defile,
watchful sentries scanned the approaches to the village.
I feel great admiration for the practical characteristic nature
of those old Honley clothiers ; who brought their bags of wool
for such a purpose. The writer, when a child, once saw 6ome
dilapidated military garments worn by one of those who ans-
wered to the call of the constable to help to defend his village.
The coat was of red cloth of a now antiquated pattern ; and
trimmed with brass buttons. A band of yellow lace adorned
the hat.
If the times were perilous tho inhabitants had their pastimes
and recreations. What crowds of people would press up the
village street, on their way to the scene of bull-baiting and
other sports ! These sports took place every Honley Feast in
Thirstin ; until made illegal by law.
(In all old documents Thirstin is spelt Thurstan.)
The merry village maidens would dance around the May-pole,
that stood on the Village-green. This open space in the centre
of the village, has, I am sorry to say had its old name modern-
ized to " Town -gate." Amongst the old inhabitants it still
retains its original name of " May -pole-hill." I hope that its
proper title may neither be forgot nor ignored by the present
inhabitants.
During the disturbed period when King Charles was behead-
ed ; it speaks well for the religious zeal of the neighbourhood
that a Church was erected at Meltham. The erection of this
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Church (or more properly speaking Chapel) in the year 1651,
caused the withdrawal of its inhabitants from the worship at
Honley Chapel. This structure at Meltham was built through
the influence of the mother of William Woodhead. This old
lady had a dread of Popery. Her great age prevented her from
coming to Honley Chapel by a foot-road across Harden Clough,
still called " Chapel-gate " ! It is said that this old lady on her
way to Honley was occasionally pelted with sods by the youths
of Meltham.
Godfrey Beaumont of Crossland, gave to Honley and Melt-
ham Chapels, certain lands by will dated 81st March, 1672.
He was of that noble class of Yeomen now so fast dying out ;
a class that answered to the name of " free born Englishmen."
Such as these, have handed down to us our hearths and homes,
our faith and fatherland. But to return to Honley.
The old Oratory had no doubt beeu frequently altered to
meet the needs of Divine worship. There are deeds to prove
that both alterations and additions took place in 1507 and 1660.
In the year 1760 the Chapel had been entirely rebuilt, bat
most of the old material had been used in its re-construction.
Though dedicated like its predecessor to the Virgin Mary, it
was known to the inhabitants as the " Old Peg."
I have never been able to gain any correct information why
it should lay claim to this appellation. Some people say be-
cause of the cracked tone of the old bell that hung in the
cupola.
This building was a plain structure without a tower. There
was a small cupola at the West end, in which the bell was
hung. In the interior was suspended a large brass chandelier.
This was considered a magnificent piece of workmanship ; and
was only required when the short winter Sunday afternoons
closed in early ; and tallow dips were then inserted in its scones.
This chandelier has a little history of its own. It was form-
erly suspended in Huddersfield Parish Church. After some
alterations there, it was purchased by the late Miss Armitage,
and given to Honley Church. It was hung both in the old
Chapel and the present edifice. When gas was introduced at
Honley, the chandelier was sent to Brockholes Church. After
gas was put into Brockholes Church the chandelier was sent
back to Honley ; and is now suspended after having been divid-
ed, in the central room at the National 8chools.
On the North and West walls of the Chapel were two life-size
oil paintings of Moses and Aaron. When the old building was
pulled down, these pictures were removed to the National
Schools ; but at the last enlargement of the School, they were
destroyed. This is to be regretted, as they were not only very
ancient but of great merit. How many a grey-headed man
and woman who have passed the time meted out to man, will
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think with a sigh of regret about those two well known pict-
ures ! In their long past youth, have they not whiled away many
a tedious sermon by holding imaginary conversations on the
merits of the nose of Moses, and the beard of Aaron ? The
Royal Coat of Arms was in front of the East gallery. The pews were
of black oak ; of an antiquated pattern ; and adorned with the
signs of ownership. Many of them were in the " three-nooked
Chapel/' as it was named by the inhabitants ; and on many
were carved the initial letters of the names of the owners, with
dates of an early period. At that time, the bindings of books
were too precious to be handled ; and the books laid in the
corners of the old pews, protected with their various coloured
coverings of Kersey cloth or other materials. These coverings
were of home-manufacture, and made by the Honley clothiers
with the intention of never wearing out. The old Bibles, Prayer-
books, or Version of the Psalms, contained homely entries of
births, marriages, and deaths, — date of purchase, — poetry as to
the ownership of the books, generally of a threatening character.
We then could boast of a local poet of no mean name, — William
Crosley of Honley.
The pulpit was long and upright, commonly called a " three
decker." It was covered by a huge carved oak canopy, or
" sounding-board." At that time Honley must have been far
in advance of the times, for an organ stood at the east end of
the Chapel. The mother Church of Almondbury was behind
her daughter, for she could only lay claim even until the year
1826 to a bass viol. We know that organs were both rare and
expensive in earlier days. According to the entries in the old
Parish book, this organ not only cost a large amount of money;
but was always out of order ; and required much attention. It
was like an ailing patient, and different kinds of physic were in
constant request.
The Chapel had three galleries, or lofts, as they were named
by its worshippers. These were known as the red-loft, white-
loft, and singing loft. The red-loft was situated over the East
end, the white-loft over the North, and the singing loft over the
Communion table. There was no gallery over the South side.
Still the old Chapel was in the midst of unrest. Napoleon
threatened to invade England, — the great Napoleon, — the
gloom of whose glory says Lord Byron —
" Arose, and o'ershadowed the earth with her name."
The writer has often heard old people tell, how on each
evening, their parents were wont to go to the end of the village,
and watch with trembling hearts for the lighting of the beacon-
fire on Castle Hill. Its blaze was to be the signal, that
Napoleon and his army had already landed on English soil.
The flare of the late beacon-fire, lighted in honour of our
Queen's jubilee, must have caused very different feelings from
what existed then. To be continued.
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Burning Women. — A Newspaper of the last century contains
the following announcement of the burning of a woman at
York:—
York, March 29, 1757. Yesterday, Mary Ellah, who was
convicted of the murder of her husband, Thomas Ellah, was
burnt, pursuant to her sentence. She confessed the crime for
which she suffered, and died penitent.
The last woman burned alive was Catherine Hayes, for
murdering her husband. The rope intended to strangle her
was burnt, and she was actually burnt alive. Thackeray's
" Catherine," was founded on this event.
C. W. S., Northallerton.
Register Wants : Baoe. I offer £10 for baptism certificate
of Joseph Bage, born 1748-8, or marriages of George Bage,
senior, 1720-45. J. D. Whyte, M.A.
Benson. Robert Benson, bap. 1744-5, Wharfedale or Airedale.
Horsfall. Abraham Horsfall, bap. 1675-88, Calder or Colne
Valleys. * * *
Hargreaves. Wanted the Certificate of Birth, of John Har-
greaves, born at Bowdish, or Rawtenstall about 1798, fine
Cotton Spinner by trade, married a Miss Barrett, of Yorkshire,
both died at Manchester about 1848.
F. Hilditch, 16, Parfitt Road, South Bermondsby.
Yorkshire Chap-books. Mr. H. Speight has again forwarded
a batch of Chap-books for which we are very grateful. The
following is the list.
1. The Bloody Tragedy, or a dreadful warning to disobedient
children ... an account of John Gill, of Woborn, Bedfordshire.
. . . [ending with 'dying speech at his execution'] . J. Eendrew,
Printer, Collier Gate, York. 8 pages on very coarse paper.
2. Moll Flanders, printed at Burslem. 8. Jack the Giant
Killer, part I, 24 pages only, title lost, (see No. 6).
4. A Pious Exhortation delivered in a prison by an Innocent
Sufferer. Huddersfield, J. Brook, (about 1800), 8 pages.
5. The Village Tragedy, or Murder upon Murder, written
.... against Seduction which proved so fatal, a few weeks ago
to a Young Woman near York, who .... murdered her new
born child, and .... drowned herself in the Foss Navigation.
York, J. Kendrew, Collier Gate, Id., 8 pages of doggerel verse.
6. The History of the Marquis of Salus, or Patient Grissel,
(Vignette, a nosegay.) Wakefield, Rowland Hurst, at the Star
Office, 23 pages. On the 24th page we read " Shop-keepers
and Hawkers supplied at the Star Printing Office, Wakefield,
with all sorts of Testaments, Beading Easys, Spellings, Battle-
dores; also Godly Books, Songs and Histories, viz: Fair
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Rosamond, Sleeping Beauty, A Groats Worth of Wit for a
Penny; the King and Cobbler, Parts I and II; Robin Hood;
Robinson Crusoe ; The Old Woman of Ratcliffe Highway ; Jack
the Giant Killer, Parts I and II ; Mother Bunch, Parts I and
II ; The Gipsy's Fortune Teller ; The Fortune Teller by Tea-
Cups; Bateman's Tragedy, &c, &c."
7. Cobbler and Parson, printed by Appleton, Darlington.
8. Collin and Phoebe, Spiritualized. By a Blind Man,
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale.
9. A. Groatsworth of Wit for a Penny, or the interpretation
of Dreams.
Printed and sold in London, 24 pages. This seems older issue
than Hurst's, see No. 6. It treats of signification of Moles. "A
Mole on the neck, he shall become rich ! but behind the neck it
demonstrates that he shall be beheaded, except God, thro1 ear-
nest prayers prevent the same." Born under the 12 Signs.
Drawing blood. Comets. Night Spells. Colour of Hair.
Shape of the head, forehead, nose. Eyes.
10. A similar book, two leaves missing, matter differs con-
siderably.
11. A Good Wife .... and Persecuting Butcher. 8pp,
London, Evaus. Id.
12. Three True Stories, Murderer, &c. 8pp. London, Evans,
Id.
18. Singular Sufferings of Two Friends who had lost them-
selves in an American Forest. 8pp. York, C. Croshaw,
Coppergate. Id.
14. Scientific Astrologer, or Universal Fortune Teller,
Charms, Ceremonies, Cards. York, C. Croshaw. Id. 8pp.
15. A Parallel between Alex, the Great and a Highwayman.
York, Croshaw. Id. 8pp. [Alex, is the greater rogue.]
16. A Visit to a Witch, (Moll White). York, Croshaw. Id.
8pp.
17. Pathetic Sufferings of Louisa Harwood who was seduced
by Lieut. Harris, &c. York, Croshaw. Id. 8pp.
18. Holcome Monster, ( an Otter.) Printed at Bury.
19. Ducks and Pease, or the Newcastle Rider. A Farce of
One Act. Founded on Fact. Scene Harrogate. Stockton, J.
Appleton. 16 pages.
"-O
j&otifts of Jhta Snoks. *
A List of Parish Churches retaining Special Mediaeval
Features, glass, vestments, plate, &c. Compiled by H. Little-
hales. London, Bivingtons, 1889. Is. 48 pages.
The Compiler asks for additional instances, so we print his
short Yorkshire list that our readers may favour him and us
with a more elaborate one. It is a neat brochure, and worthy
204 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
of an enlarged edition. Yorkshire plate is being attended to,
but lists of piscinas, sedilias, curfew-bells, pancake-belle, and
similar customs, garlands, hatchments, effigies, font-covers,
sun-dials, church-yard crosses, Easter-sepulchres, &c, ad infin.
may be well recorded.
Hazlewood. Ancient Roman Catholic Church.
Kildwick. Glass Shields from Fountains and Bolton.
" Lang Church of Craven."
Sprotborough. Ancient bier.
Bolton-by-Bolland. Font.
Aldneld cum Studley. The font is a copy of the Stonp at
Fountains.
Fishlake. Alms-dish, fifteenth century. Fragment of a
processional cross (?)
Harewood. Tombs ; one of Judge Gascoigne.
Thornhill. Glass.
Beswick. Chalice, c. 1500.
Patrington. Ancient steps of altar. Easter-sepulchre rest-
ing place. Pendant for a light. Western aisles to transepts.
Hood moulding to transept entrance.
Hedon. Sculpture.
Tanfield. Confessional (?). Herse.
Bedale. Herse. Altar.
Hinderwell, Chalice, c. 1490.
Aysgarth. Rood screen from Jervaulx Abbey.
Eirkdale A Saxon sun-dial.*
Goathland. Chalice, early fifteenth Century.
Almondbury. On the walls of the Nave are some very
beautiful verses of the sixteenth century.
Beverley (Minster), -f Sanctuary seat. Stalls. Staircase.
Tombs ; one of a priest, with the amice drawn over the head.
Parapets.
Beverley (St. Mary's). Minstrels' pillar.
York (St. Martin's). Glass.
Bridlington. Stone offertory box.
Campsall. Rood-loft, with inscription.
The Lost Towns op the Humber ; with introductory chap-
ter on the Roman Geography of South East Yorkshire. By J.
R. Boyle, F.S.A. Hull, A. "Brown & 8ons, 1889. Map and
folding pedigree of the De la Mare, or Atte See family ; pp. xii,
102. 400 copies, demy 8vo.; 100 copies, royal 4to.; 25 copies,
royal 4 to., hand-made paper.
It has been a blessing to Yorkshire topography that Mr.
Boyle has had a residence (alas ! too short, for he now resides at
Gateshead,) in Hull. " The Lost Towns of the Humber'' will
be a work sought after for ages, as it is replete with information
•Part XV, Y. N. & Q. t Vol. I, Y. N. <* Q.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL.
culled from all available sources. The work fills a place
hitherto vacant in Yorkshire topography and history, and we
are delighted to see that a twin-volume is promised on the sub-
merged villages of the Holderness Coast.
An elaborate index consummates our indebtedness to the
author and publisher of this useful and beautiful volume.
Bacon* s Yorkshibe. Map on 4 sheets, each li X 1 ft., divided
into five-mile squares, and coloured to shew the present Parl-
iamentary Divisions. London, Bacon, Strand.
The map may also be had plain ; or the four sheets may be
mounted on canvas, with roller. The roads and names are
well defined.
Rochdale Parish Registers. 1617-1641. Edited by Henry
Fishwick, F.S.A. Rochdale, James Clegg, 1889. Privately
printed for subscribers. (10s. 6d.). pp. iv., 864.
We gladly hail the second volume of Rochdale Registers, and
have nothing but praise for the editorial and publishing labour-
ers. Three or four pages from the earliest found Todmorden
Chapel Registers are appended. The index covers fifty pages.
Birthday of the State of Connecticut. Celebration of
the 250th Anniversary of the Adoption of the First Constitution
of the State of Connecticut, by the Conn. Hist. Soc, &c, Jan.
24, 1819. Hartford, Conn., 1889.
This beautiful memorial volume, of 98 pages, stirs our Puri-
tan proclivities, and gives us a longing to be American as well
as English, as the story unites England and America. It
augurs well for the States that the inhabitants are proud of the
Fathers and Founders thereof : we are proud to own the kinship.
The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire. By John Nicholson,
Hull. Printed by Thomas Holderness, Driffield. Ded. to Wm.
Andrews, Esq. 8vo., pp xii, 110. 8s. One hundred copies 4to.
with rubricated title, have also been printed ; 5s.
Paper, printing and binding are admirable ; and Mr. Nichol-
son's original labours are conspicuous on every page. The
work is not a mere glossary, for the author has coupled the
modern dialect-word and phrase with the customs and literature
of a by-gone age. Scarcely a word is given that is not accom-
panied by an early use, culled from such works as the " York
Mystery Plays," "Havelok," "Hampole," &c. We congratu-
late the author on the production of one of the best Yorkshire
dialect works, in beautiful garb, at the lowest possible price.
A Series of Papers prepared for the use of the Bradford
Historical and Antiquarian Society, on the occasion of their
visit to Pontefract. July 18, 1889. By Thos. Wm. Tew, J.P.
and Richard Holmes. Printed by B. Holmes, '/Advertiser
Office," Pontefract. 1889. 108 pages. Frontispiece, Bubwith
House.
206 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
A more delightful half-day we have scarcely ever enjoyed,
and it was marred only by the brevity of time. Mr. Tew'a
princely entertainment of about 150 persons, mostly strangers,
will never be effaced from our memories. Kindness met the
visitors at every turn.
Index to the Fibst Volume of the Parish Registers
of Gainford, in the County of Durham. Part I. Baptisms,
1560-1784. London, Elliot Stock, 1889.
This title is misleading, for the volume consists of the Gain-
ford baptisms for two centuries, arranged in the form of an index,
and a very capital arrangement we regard it. The late Vicar
of Otley compiled a similar transcript of his Parish Registers,
which, at our suggestion, he offered to the Yorkshire Archae-
ological Association for publication. The copy is now at the
Parish Church, with the rest of the Registers. The Gainford
volume bears no name of editor, but we are pleased to see in the
preface that the Yicar offered to print the work at his own ex-
pense. Well done ! we have met with vicars who would neither
do this, nor allow anyone else to do it. Of the work under re-
view we note with pleasure that it is carefully edited, clearly
arranged, beautifully printed on hand-made paper, neatly bound,
and is to be followed by " Marriages," now in the press, and
"Burials," ready for the press. The price is not stated. Pp. iv.
184.
The P. P. Index. A Monthly record of Leading Subjects in
Periodical Literature. No. 2, June 15th, Is. London, Triibner
& Co. This is now to be issued as an annual.
A New Religion, called " Undenouinationalism." A
Sermon preached at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, by Charles Har-
grove, M.A., July 21, 1889; being a reply to certain remarks
made by the Bishops of Chester and Wakefield, at York Convo-
cation, July 17. Leeds, "Express Office," 1889. pp. 11.
The Bishops were wrongly informed, for it is not true that
" the moral tone of Board School children was surely deterior-
ating." So much and no more, in the pages of our Quarterly.
The Eiffel Toweb, and other Poems. By C. W. Craven.
Eeighley, E. Craven. 1889. 15 pages.
These are French reminiscences, a short poem being " On
Querol's Bust of Mr. H. I. Butterfield, [of Keighley,] in the
Paris Exhibition of 1889." We notice a slip in one line :
" Tis but a poorish substitute of lie who lives."
Old Bradford. Mr. Scruton, West Bowling, has added to
the numerous illustrations promised, a fine series of portraits,
including Mr. Forster, Mr. Seebohm, Lord Cranbrook, and eight
or nine others. The volume is nearly ready, and will be soon
out of print.
Vestiges op old Newcastle and Gateshead. ByW.H.
Knowles, and J. R. Boyle. Newcastle, Andrew Beid. 4to. 1ft
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 207
of the 22 parts are now ready at Is. 6d. each. Each part con-
tains three artistic plates, with other illustrations, by Mr.
Knowles, and twelve pages of history from the able pen of the
Rev. J. B. Boyle, formerly of Hull. The whole will form a
most delightful volume. Artist, author, and typographer alike
deserve the highest praise.
Brown's Illustrated Guide to Hull. By Edmund
Wriggles worth. Is. Hull, Brown & Sons. 224 pages of
clearly, closely-printed matter, profusely illustrated. This
wonderfully cheap book is a picture gallery, as well as concise
guide and terse history ; and therefore is a book that should be
in the hands of every Hull visitor and inhabitant, and also in
the library of all Yorkshire collectors. Mr. Wrigglesworth
knows his ground thoroughly, and possesses the enthusiasm
and ability of a wise cicerone. Besides a plan and four insert-
ed plates, there are views of all the public buildings, &c, of the
town.
Salem Chapel and Independency in York. A Retrospect,
by J. Viokery. York, Ben Chapman, Blossom Street. Price
4d. 68 pages.
In choice and vigorous language, Mr. Yickery not only tells
the story of York nonconformity since 1662, especially the life
labours of James Parsons, but with a masterly hand delineates
the inner religious experience of last century and the advanc-
ing theology of the present. The pamphlet is a history of
religious thought, and therefore of wider interest than the
title indicates.
List op the Writings of John Eglington Bailey, F.S.A.
By Ernest Axon. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Lane-
ashire and Clieshire Antiguanan Society. Manchester, 1889. 22
pages.
We do not know which to admire most, Mr. Bailey's versat-
ility or Mr. Axon's bibliographical omniscience. Amongst the
420 items are : John Dawson of Sedbergh ; Andrew Marvell, a
Botanist ; Wakeman at Ripon ; Harrogate Spa ; Oliver Hey-
wood's works ; Visit to the Rev. John Watson, Stockport ; Jo-
seph Moxon ,F.R.S.; Rev. Edmund Brooks ; Jer. Horrox and
Wm. Crabtree; Marvell and Greatraks ; Wm. Meek's Diary,
Skipsea ; Archdeacon Goodman, Richmond.
Model Relief Map of Yorkshire. Mr. Reynolds, Thack-
ley, Bradford, has issued an excellent Map, primarily intended
for elementary Schools, but of great service to all teachers, and
a useful ornament for public and private libraries. Every care
has been taken to give true notions of the contour of the
County, and we believe its accuracy is as near perfection as it
is possible to attain. Having traversed the whole Yorkshire
coast line and pedestrianized the West Riding dales particular-
ly! we speak the more confidently, but any one who sees this
208 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
work of art will be struck with its merits, while the price
(16/6) is very moderate indeed. The Map is composed of
fibrous plaster, without brittleness, comparatively light and
therefore portable, and neatly framed. Its dimensions are
2ft. 9in. by 2ft. 2in.
Antiquarian Jottings relating to Bromley, Hayes, Keston,
and West Wickham, in Kent. By George Clinch, of the
Department of Printed Books, British Museum. Printed for
the author, Addiscombe, Surrey, 1889. 5s. Illustrated ; pp.
191, small 4to.
We have been delighted with this neat volume, for it is full
of local antiquarian jottings that illustrate the general history
of the country, and the style is finished yet not pedantic.
There is not a dull page in it, and it is sequentially arranged
without betraying formality. Amongst the uncommon items,
we note a church-yard umbrella to shield the clergyman on wet
days at funerals. The Rev. Francis Fawkes, M.A. was Rector
of Hayes from April, 1774, to his death, August 26th, 1777.
His works were, Translations of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion,
Moschus, Musseus, Theocritus, and Apollonius Rhodius; The
complete Family Bible, 1761 ; Original Poems and Translations,
1761 ; Partridge Shooting, an Eclogue, 1767; Poetical Calendar,
1768.
Another Yorkshire item is from a brass in West Wickham
Chancel :
IOHN LANG BORNE AT RICHMOND IN YE COVNTY
OF YORKE Was afterwarde one of the Fellowes of St. Iohn's
Col : in Cambridge, by the space of IX yeares ; from thence he
was lawfvlly & freely called to be Parson of this Parish of
Westwickham, where he continved resident the whole time of
xxxij yeares and more who lived heere with the good report &
likinge of those Yt did feare God and in an assvred hope of a
better life after this in Ye kingdome of Heaven ; this memorial!
of him was made in A° 1610 an in the 77th yeare of his age.
Mr. Clinch presumes the inscription was written in Parson
Lang's lifetime.
Helmsley, or Reminiscences of 100 Yeabs Ago, to which is
added a Guide to the Locality, with Descriptive Notes by
Isaac Coopeb. Price 6d. York, Gazette Office. 55 pages.
We wish there was a Mr. Cooper in every village to link this
century with the last. The great Kyedale flood of 1754 is Mr.
Cooper's starting period, and the sad story is fully traced.
Originality and accuracy mark the scores of incidents that are
narrated, and the future local historian will gladly testify to
Mr. Cooper's good services to topography and folk-lore. We
urge our readers to gratify themselves, and gratify the aged,
talented bookseller, by sending for a copy of " Helmsley."
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 209
$b*rburn £djool JUgiafer,
Communicated by G. W. Marshall, Esq., LL.D., Rouge Crou\
Laurence Weather hill, son of Laurence Weatherill, of Sher-
burn, was borne August 11th, 1662.
John Pattison, son of Roger Pattison, of Sandhutton, was
borne September ye 2d, 1664.
Balph, ye son of Thomas Holmes, of Yorke, was baptized ye
15th of January, 1664.
John, ye son of Henry Calvert, of Sherburne, was baptised 14th
day of August, 1664.
Richard, ye son of Anthony Letham, of Sherburne, was bap-
tized the 24th of August, 1667.
John, ye son of Simon Barnby, of Sherburne, was baptized ye
10th day of May, 1666.
Jolin, ye son of John Simpson, of Yorke, was born the 20th
day of Feb., 1668.
John Partrage, son of John Partrage, of Yorke, was borne the
2d day of June, 1669.
John Topham, son of Josiah Topham, of Yorke, was borne the
7th day of September, 1666. He went to Cambridge.
Christopher Hopwood, son of Christopher Hopwood, of Yorke,
was borne the 1st day of 1668.
John Mudde, son of Thomas Mudde, of Saxton, was borne ye
80th day of October, 1669.
John Lacock, son of Robert Lacock, of Saxton, was borne ye
18th day of June, 1665.
Henry Topham, son of Josiah Topham, of York, was borne yo
4th day of April, 1669.
John Dunconn, son of Nicholas Dunconn, of Yorke, was borne
ye 28th day of January, 1667.
Nathaniel Ingram, son of Peter Ingram, of Yorke, was borne
ye 24th day of March, 1669.
Benjamin Wilstrop, son of Bartholomew Wilstrop, of Yorke,
was borne ye 8th day of December, 1667.
Wm., ye son of Sam" Dobson, Baptd- March ye 29th, 1668.
Tho., ye son of Richd- Loft, of Saxton, Baptd- May ye 8th, 1678.
Andrew, ye son of Tho. Slayter, of Sherburne, Bapt*- 9*- ye
20th, 1678.
Mark, ye son of Henry Hurd, of York, Baptd May ye 8th, 1678.
John, ye son of John Bernard, of Sherburne, Bapt^ 9br< ye 80th,
1672.
Matt., ye son of Henry Hobson, York, Baptd- May ye 8t, 1668.
John, Jre son of Wm. Hall, of Saxton, Baptd- April ye 9* 1675.
Nathan, ye son of Peter Ingram, of York, Baptd- March ye 24fc»
1668.
Tho., ye son of John Smith, of York, Baptd June ye 24*. 1678.
Y.N.Q. a
210 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Tho., ye son of W™- Hague, of Sherburne, born April ye 10*
1676.
John, ye son of Peter Bewley, of York, Bapt4- May ye 5*- 1675.
Tho., ye son of Andrew Squire, of Sandhutton, April ye 21*
1675.
Wm» son of John Hodgson, of Sherburn, Bapt*- Feby. 1^
1677.
John Hessle, of York, Baptd- April ye 10th* 1677.
Bichd- ye son of John Pierson, of Yorke, Baptd- June ye 17**
1682.
George Wheatley, son of George Wheatley, of York, was Bapt1
Novembr- ye 14th- 1680. He went to Cambridge.
Francis, ye son of Wm- Watson, of York, Bapt* 9te- ye 221-
1680.
Thomas, ye son of Wm- Bolton, of Sherburn, Baptd- October ye
80th- 1688. Admitted May ye 1st, '91.
John, ye son of John Sadler, of Sherburn, was Bapt** June ye
25th* 1688. Admitted May, '91.
Francis, ye son of William Park, of Sherburn, Bapt** May ye
15, 1684. Admitted November ye 22** '91.
George, ye son of Wm* Heward, of York, Bapt4- Ap'll ye 10th-
1681. Admitted Novemb'- '01.
John, ye son of Xtopher Brown, of Sherburn, Bapt*- August
ye 10th* 1682. Admitted Feb. 9£.
Michael, ye son of Malacai Otley, of York, Bapt*- Mrch ye 7th*
1681. Admitted Feb. 9*.
James, the son of John Hodgson, of Sherburn, Bapt*- June ye
Twentyth, 1682. Admitted Feb. 9*
Rob*- ye son of John Walker, of York, Baptd- Feb. ye 19th-
1679. Admitted Mrch 9*.
John, the son of James Smith, of York, Bapt*- ye 29th- of Jany.
1681. Admitted at Martinmas, '92.
Rich*' ye son of Riohd- Jackson, of York, Baptd- ye 12th of 7te»
1682. Admitted at Martinmas, 92.
John, ye son of John Harrison, of Sandhutton, Bapt*- April ye
18th* 1684. Admitted in May, 92.
Timothy, the son of Richd- Webster, of York, Bapt*- 7bar ye
fourteenth, 1682. Admitted at May day, 1698.
William, the son of Thomas Sykes, of York, Bapt4- Apr11 ye 4th*
1680. Admitted at May-day? 1698.
Thomas, son of Thomas Gilliam, of Sherburn, Baptiz*- Mreh ye
84* 1685. Admitted May, 1698.
Joshua, ye son of James Dobson, of Sherburn, Bapt*- Aug*- ye
21st* 1684. Admitted at Gandlemass, 169}, by ye order of
Dr. Tob. Wickham, Dean of York.
Charles Sharpie*, of York, born y« 14th day of Feby, 1678.
Henry y# son of Gressy Alder son, of York, Baptd 91* y* 1st,
1685. Admitted at Lamas. 1694.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 211
Michaell, y« son of Tho. Dyke, of York, Bapt* Augst y6 18th,
1662.
Alvary, y son of Bichd. Webster, of York, Bapt4 Feb'ry ye
23d, 1684.
John, y* son of Matthew Stead, of Sherburn, Bapt* Apr*U ye
16th, 1689. Admitted May y 1st, 1696.
Henry, son of John Thirkell, of Sherburn, Baptd Feb. The 22d,
1688. Admitted in May, 1696.
John, son of Wm. Bell, of Sherburn, Bapt* yt 6t day of Sept-
ember, 1688. Admitted in May, 1696.
Joshua, son of Joseph Bateliffe, of Sherburn, Bapt* July the
18th, 1689. Admitted in May, 1697.
Wm. Harrison, son of John Harrison, of Sandhutton, Baptd
March y« 25t, 1669. Admitted May y« 8d, 1697.
Bichd, son of Wm. Brusby, of York, was Baptized January y*
80th, 1665. Admitted May y 1st, 1697.
Jon, ye son of Obadiah Casson, of York, Baptd 168 . .
Admitted at May day, 1697.
Bamll, son of Jon. Turpin, of Sherburn, Baptd Aprill The 80th,
1690. Admitted at Martinmas, 1697.
Tho., son of Jon Pullan, of Lewerton, Baptized Augst The 18th,
1689. Admitted Mrch y« 29th, 1698,
Jon, son of John Brown, of York, Bapt* Septbr ye 18th, 1688.
Admitted at May day, 1697.
Peter, son of Henry Allen, of York, Bapt4 Deoembr y 25t,
1687. Admitted May y« 1st, '98.
Jeremiah, y6 son of Wm. Wheatley, of York, Bapt* Ootobr y#
16th, 1687. Admitted at Martinmass, 1698.
Francis, son of Thomas Gary, of York, Bapt* June y* 7t, 1689.
Admitted at Xmas, 98.
Phillip, son Peter Pier son, of York, Bapt* Feby y« lit, 1688.
Admitted at Martinmas, 1699.
Benjamin, son of Timothy Turner, of York, Bapt* July y* 6t,
1688. Admitted at Martinmas. 1699.
John, son of John Turpin, of Sherburn, Bapt* Deoembr 22d,
1692. Admitted at May day, 1700.
Hugh, son of William Jewitt, of Sherburn, Bapt* Ad-
mitted at May day, 1700.
John, son of Wm. Bell, of Sherburn, Bapt* 7br y 6t, 1688.
Admitted in May, 1699.
Edward, son of Joshua Turner, of York, Bapt* 8br y 29t, 1690.
Admitted at Lamas, 1700.
William, son of John Bawden, of York, Bapt* Augst y« lit,
1692. Admitted at Gandlemass, 1700.
William, son of Bichd. Garter, of York, was Bapt* ye 10th of
April, 1691. Admitted 9br y H* 1701.
Cornelius, son of Edmund Benson, of Sandhutton, Bapt*
March y 12th, 1692. Admitted at May day 1702.
212 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Tho. son of Tho. Cruttenden, of York, Bapt* 7br 9t, 1688.
Tho. Adcock Hutchinson, of York, Baptd lObr y 6t, 1692. Ad-
mitted Jany y 14th, 1708.
Thomas Jarviss, of York, Baptd July y 20th, 1698. Admitted
at Michaelmass, 1704.
Wm. Bentley, of York, Baptd Augst y 26t, 1691. Admitted at
Michaelmas, 1704.
Kichard Smith, of York, Baptiz'd May y 12th, 1698. Admitted
at Candlemas, 1704.
William Clerk, of Sandhutton, Aged Twelve Years, Aprill y
14th, 1705. Admitted at May day, 1705.*
Oeorge Benson, of Sandhutton, Aged Nine Years, Aprill y 27t,
1705. Admitted at May day 1705.
Joseph Stephenson, of Sandhutton, Aged Ten Years, Jany. y
18th, 1704. Admitted June y 18th, 1705.
James Stephenson, of Sandhutton, Aged Twelve Years, Augst
y 15t. Admitted Augst y 28th, 1705.
Thomas Hick, of Lotherton, Bapt* Feb. y* 28rd, 1695, admitted
Feb. ye 12th, 1706.
John, son of Bartholomew Hollin worth, of Sherburn, Baptd . . .
Admitted Feb. y 12th, 1706.
John Chapman, of York, Bapt4 December y 1st, 1696. Ad-
mitted Feb. y« 28th, 1706.
Christopher Akrid, of Stanford Brigs, Bapt* May y 2d, 1698.
Admitted at May day, 1707.
Hugh Walker, of Sherburn, Baptd March y* 14th, 1696. Ad-
mitted May, 1705.
William Booth, of York, Baptd Feby. y 18th, 1698.
John Pollard, of York, was born 7br y 21st, 1698.
John, son of Robt. Bond, Usher of Sherburn, Baptd March 7t,
1698.
John, son of John Hamond, Baptized Novemb. 15, 1702, aged
7 years and ±. Admitted at Lamas, 1709.
Thomas Mason of York, aged 8 years. Admitted at Lamas,
1709.
Caesar Chamberlane, of Sherburn, aged 7yrs & £. Admitted
7br y 8d, 1709.
Matt. Hutchinson, of Albaford, aged 10 years. Admitted lObr
27th, 1709.
William Chamberlane, aged 18J. Admitted April, 1711. He
filled y vacant place of Tho. Boswell deceased.
Jon. Wellburn, of Sandhutton, aged 8&+. Admit. Mart. 1711.
Christopher Cave, York, aged 10 &£. Admit. Mart. 1711.
Wm. Fentiman, of Sherburn, aged 8 years. Admitted at Mart.
1712.
Tho. Bolton, of Barstow, aged Eight years. Admit, at Mart.
Edwd. Wood, of York, aged 8 years & £* Admitted at Candle-
mass.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 213
1718.
Tho. Richardson, of Sherburn, aged 104, admitted at May day.
Jno. Stainmer, of Sherburn, aged 9 & ±, admitted at Mart.
1714.
George Fentiman, of Sherburn, aged 7 & £, admitted at May day,
Tho. Butler, of Sherburn, aged 11, adm. at Martinmas.
William Brooke, of Sherburn, aged 18, admitted at Martinm.
1715.
William Higgins, of Saxton, aged 9 & £, admitted at May day.
Tho. Brooke, of Sherburne, aged .... admitted at May day.
Tho. Shepherd, of Sherburn, aged 11 years } admitted at Mart-
inmas.
Benj. Whiteoak of York, aged 10 years, admitted at Candlemas.
1716.
Arthur Cunningham, of York, Baptd the Fourth of Octob.,
1704. Admitted at Martinmas.
Thomas Chamberlain, of Sherburn, Baptized the 25th of Octob.,
1706. Admitted at Christmas in the room of Tho. Brooke,
deceased.
William Higgin9, of Saxton, readmitted at Candlemas.
1717.
John Smelt, of York, Baptized the Sixth Day of August, 1707.
Admitted at May day.
William Shepherd, of Uandhutton, Bapt* March 18, 1706. Ad-
mitted May the 16th.
John Terry, of York, in the Parish of St. Martins, in Mickle-
ga,te, Baptized the 4th of March, 1706. Admitted ye 17 of
June.
John Mason, of ye Parish of All Sts, Northstreet, in York,
Baptized Sept. 2, 1704. Admitted June 24.
John Hollingsby of All Sts. Pavement, in York, Bapt
Admitted the First of July.
John Holmes, of the Parish of St. Marys, Bishophil Seniors, in
York, Bap. July, 1710. Admitted at Martinmass.
Elnathan Coulton, of St. Michael's Parish, York, Bapt. June
20, 1707. Admitted ye 14th of January.
1718.
Tho. Cunningham, born y6 Tenth of June, 1708. Admitted
the Tenth of June.
John, the son of John Whitehead, Baptd May the 21, 1710.
Admitted Feb. 10th.
John Brook, of Sherburn, Bapt* Feb. 18, 1711. Admitted at
Martinmans, 1718.
1719.
Christopher, the son of Rowland Richardson, Baptd Mar. 16,
170". Admitted at May day.
Tho. the son of John Bunnil, of Shereburn, Born the Twenty-
Second of December, 1711. Admitted at May Day.
214 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Will, y* son of James Calverley. Admitted at May Day Last,
1719, born at Sherburn, bapt. March 28, 1711.
1720.
Richard, y* son of Richard Harrison, baptised Sept. 21st, 1712.
Admitted May y 10th, 1720.
Michael, jr» son of Thomas Goswell, baptised May 22d, 1718.
Admitted June 16th, 1720.
Samuel, y* son of Samuel Gosling, baptised Septber. 80ih,
1711, Admitted at Martinmass.
Matthew, son of Robert Hall, of Saxton, Bapt. March 9th,
1709.
John, y* son of Tho. Pundar, of Barkston, Bapt. March 26,
1709.
James, son of James Calverley, bapt. July 9, 1714.
John, son of James Scot, of Sherburn, bapt. Oct. 14, 1713.
John, son of Mephiboseth Bonnell, bapt. Jan. 1, 1718.
Thos., son ofWm. Walker, of Sherburn, bapt. July 1, 1711.
1721.
Thomas, y6 son of James Doyl, baptised November y6 29th,
1718. Admitted June y» 6th.
John, y6 son of Rowland Richardson, baptised Octber y* 80th,
1718. Admitted at May day.
1722.
Willm. son of Tho. Stanidge, of Sherburn, deceased, bapt
June 6, 1708. Admitted November 21.
William, y* son of John Brooks, of ye parish of St. John's, in
York, deceased, bapt. February y« 27, 1714. Admitted 9br, 26.
John, y* son of Wm. Paver, of Lumley, deceased, Baptised
June 19, 1715. Admitted December 4.
1728.
John* son of Francis Whitfield, late of Saxton, baptized Octo-
ber ye 17th, 1714. Admitted 8br 18, 1728.
John, son of Andrew Slater, of Sherburn, bapt. June 20, 1714.
Admitted at Candlemas instead of Sam. Gosling, who died
in y* Hospital.
1724.
James, son of George Dobson, of Sherburn, Baptized October
14, 1711. Admitted at Martinmass.
Hannover Hill, son of Thos. Hill, of ye parish of All Saints, in
Pavement, York, Baptized lObr 20, 1715. Admitted Jan.
21, 1724.
1726.
Rowland, y6 son of Rowland Richardson, of York, Baptised
March j* 4th, 1715. Admitted at May day.
Mark, y son of George Conn, of ye parish of St. Michael Le
Belfreys, aged 10 years, Admitted at May day.
Wm., son of Francis Whitfield, of Saxton, Baptized March f
' 29th, 1716. Admitted at Martinmas.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 216
John, son of George Dobson, of Sherburn, Baptized Jan. 9tb,
1717. Admitted at Martinmas.
John, son of John Thorp, of Wilborth, aged 10 years. Admit-
ted at Martinmas. John Thorp left y# School immediately
after admission and was succeeded by James y6 son of James
Barnes, of Heck, who was baptized Feb. 8th, 1714.
[1726.]
John, son of Matthew Sampson, of Abberforth in ye par. of
Sherburn, Baptized Nov. 10th, 1717, admitted at May day 1726.
John, son of John Barber, of York, Baptized January 10th,
1716, admitted November y 4th.
1727.
Wm. y« son of Tho. Wright, of York, Baptized November ye
24th, 1716, admitted August 6th, 1727.
Charles, son of James Barnes, of Heck, Baptized y* 3rd of 9br,
1710, admitted at Martinmass.
Tho. y* son of John Barber, of York, Baptized September ye
24, 1719, admitted at Martinmass.
Francis, y« son of John Brooks, of York, Baptized July 29,
1720, admitted at Candlemas.
1728.
John, y» son of Wm. Cooper, of Sandhutton, Baptized Nov. 4,
1716, admitted at May day.
son of Wm. Chamberlayne, of Sherburn, Baptized Nov-
embr the ISteenth, 1720, admitted November ye 22d, 1728.
-Daniel Walker, of Towton in y6 parish of Saxton,
9br 26, 1721, admitted lObr 2d.
1729.
John, y* son of Tho. Herlegrove, of Saxton, baptised Feb. 28,
1717, admitted at Martinmass.
John, y6 son of John Bannister, of Sherburn, Baptized Feb.
8th, 1718, admitted at Martinmass.
Tho's. son of Tho. Wilkinson, of Barkston, aged 10 years, ad-
mitted at Martinmass.
1780.
John, son of John Mountain, of Saxton, Baptized July 26,
1728, admitted October 27, 1780.
Christopher, son of Christopher Fothergil, of Eippax, Baptized
July 25th, 1721, admitted Jan. 22nd.
David, son of Christopher Fothergil, of Kippax, Baptized June
y6 11th, 1728, admitted at Candlemas.
1781.
Tho. Frier, son of Tho. Frier, of York, baptized Augt. 12, 1722,
admitted April 27.
John Tenant, son of Charles Tenant, of York, Baptized July
16, 1721, admitted April 27.
Wm., son of Wm. Standen, of York, Baptized June 1728,
admitted at May day.
216 Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Annanias, son of Annanias Bothomley, of York, Baptized Nov-
ember ye 3d, 1720, admitted May y 8th.
Richard, son of Richard Harwood, Bapt. April y« 18th, 1721,
in St. Olave's parish, York, adm. att Whitsuntide.
Thos. son of John Honseman, of Sherburn, Baptized
admitted Nov. 12th.
1782.
William, y« son of William Foster, of Newthorp, Baptiz'd Ap.
1, 1724, admitted June 6, 1782.
Thomas Nickson, of St. Martin's cum Gregory, in York, Nine
Years old in October, 1732, was admitted June 27, 1782.
John Hayes, the son of John Hayes, of St. Helens, in York,
baptizd probably March 10, 1721, (his name is omitted in ye
Register ye Clark, dying about yt Time,) admitted Jan. 26,
1732.
Thomas, the Son of Thomas Eliot, of y« Parish of St. John's
in York, baptiz'd April 14, 1721, admitted Jany. 26, 1782.
Samuel, Son of Robert Hick, of Abbaford, in y6 Parish of Sher-
burn, bapt. 8ber 26th, 1723, admitted May 2d, 1788.
John Son of John Foster of Saxton, was baptized May 31st, in
year of our Lord 1725, admitted at Martinmass, in y* year
1783.
Mathew, son of Richard Lidgley, of Quarry Closes, near Whit-
Church, aged Eleven years, admitted at Martinmass, 1783.
Lancelot, Son of Thomas Foster, of Sherburn, aged eight years,
Jan. 1738, admitted at May Day, 1734.
John, son of Tho. Ellet, in the Parish of St. Martin's cum
Gregory, in York was baptized on the second Day of June,
1724. Admitted October the Sixth, 1785.
William, the son of John Smith, in the Parish of St. Lawrence's
of York, was baptized on the thirteenth Day of August, 1726.
Admitted at Martinmass, 1785.
John, Son of Richd. Herwood, deceased, was baptized the
eighteenth of June, 1728, in St. Olave's Parish, York. Ad-
mitted July y« 24th, 1785.
George, the Son of John Sheppherd, late of Sherburn, (hi*
Name being omitted in the Register,) was born probably the
twenty -eighth day of September, 1728. Admitted Febry y*
2d, 1785-6.
John Son of Jabez Manning, of York, was baptized y* 12th of
July, 1726. Admitted at Michaelmass, 1786.
William, 8on of William Joy, Waterman, of York, baptized
November the twenty-seven, 1726. Admitted Febry y* M
teenth, 1786-7.
Edwd. the Son of George Dolphin, of York, Weaver, baptized
October y» 10th, 1725. Admitted May the thirteenth, 1787.
William, son of Sylvan Austine, of York, Weaver, baptized
Janry y« 4th, 1726. Admitted July the fourteenth, 1737.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 217
John Ealand, son of Elizabeth Ealand, of York, was baptized
. Febry 9th, 1726, Admitted Augt. the thirtieth, 1787.
Robt. Eccles, ye Son of Mary Eccles, of Tow ton, was baptized
May y« Uteenth, 1727. Admitted at Candlemas, 1787-8.
Tho. the Son of Richd. Heaton, of York, was baptized ye 28d,
of Ootober, 1728. Admitted September y° 17th, 1787.
William, the Son of Tho. Higgins, of Saxton was baptized May
y« 10th 1780. Admitted May y« 2d, 1788.
William, the son of Widow Stephenson, of Towton, was bap.
Aug. 2, 1780, admitted May y« 1, 1788.
John, the son of John Winterburn, of Newthorpe, admitted
October the 2d, 1788.
William, Son of Richd. Thackra, was baptized November 19th,
in Bp Hill the elder, 1729. Admitted on May day, 1789.
John, Son of Wilfred Rothwell, of Batley, was Baptized Feb-
ruary 2d, 1781. Admitted July the 20th 1789.
John, son of Joseph Calvert of Saxton, was baptized March y»
6th, 1729. Admitted at Michaelmas, 1789.
William Bateman, son of William Bateman of York, was born
in ye year 1780. Admitted at Michaelmas, 1789.
George, son of George Ledger of Ullerskelf, was baptized on the
fourth day of September, in the year 1782. Admitted at
Candlemas, in y* year 1789-40.
John, son of John Bobinson, in Castle Gate, York, was baptized
the 15th day of October, in the year 1781. Admitted at Lady
Day in ye year 1740.
Charles Kippling of Parish of St. Michael's, York, was baptized
19th of December 1781. Admitted at Whitsuntide in y° year
1740.
Edward, son of Edward Taylor of Trinity Parish, York, baptized
June y« 4th, 1781. Admitted Candlemas, 1740-1.
John, son of William Clough, was baptised ye 18th day of Feb-
ruary, 1782. Admitted Lammas, 1741.
John, son of John Illingworth, of Whitley, in the Parish of
Kellington, was baptized May 20th, 1784. Admitted Lammas
1741.
Robert the son of Richard Smith, of Milford, in y« Parish of
Shereburn, was baptized Ootober y* 18th, 1781. Admitted
Candlemas, 1741-2.
Thomas, son of John Stephenson, of Towton, in ye Parish of
Saxton, was baptized Janry the 28th, 1782. Admitted
Candlemas, 1741-2.
Tho. Son of George Ledger, of Ullerskelf, was baptized Sept-
ember 15th, 1784. Admitted July 10th 1742.
Francis, son of John Sharp, was baptized on June ye 8th, 1784.
Admitted Lammas, 1742.
Joseph, Son of Joseph Calvert, of Saxton, was baptized on
May y« 4th, 1785. Admitted September y« Cth, 1742.
220 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Robert, son of William Biscomb, of Saxton, baptized June 28.
Admitted October 18, 1755.
Bobt., son of Robt, Clayton, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd Jany. 29,
1747. Admitted Jany. 26, 1756.
David, son of Andrew Joy, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd May 14, 1746.
Admitted Jany. 26, 1756.
Thos., son of Thos. Summers, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd June 20,
1746 or thereabouts. Admitted August the 18, 1756.
Thos., son Robert Clayton, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd November
the 21, 1748. Admitted Sepbr. the 9, 1756.
Thos., son of John Bolton, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd Sepbr. 29,
1745 or thereabouts. Admitted March the 28, 1757.
Thos., son of Thomas Smith, of the Parish of All Saints, in the
City of York, Baptiz'd Feby. 17, 1747. Admitted Novbr. the
4, 1767.
Thos., son of Thos., Hanson, in the Parish of Saxton, Baptiz'd
March the 18, 1749. Admitted Novbr. the 4, 1757.
Thos., son of Thos. Brown, in the Parish of Sherburn, Baptiz'd
April the 15, 1750. Admitted November the 4, 1757.
Joshua, son of Thos. Hope, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd May the 7,
1749. Admitted Jany. 18, 1758.
Thomas, son of Bobt. Lee, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd Feby. 14,
1747. Admitted February the 6, 1768.
George, Son of William Bates, of Sherburn, Baptiz'd Sepbr.
16, 1750. Admitted April 24, 1758.
Annanias, Son of Annanias Bothomly, of St. Mary's, Bishop
Hill Junior, in the City of York, was baptiz'd July 18, 1748.
Admitted April 24, 1758.
Edmund, Son of Robert Leach, of Aberford, in the Parish of
8herburn, Baptiz'd March 18, 1747. Admitted April 84,
1758.
Thos., Son of William Jackson, of the Parish of St. John's,
York, Baptized January the 26, 1760. Admitted August the
12, 1758. By reason of Holidays in Harvest.
Wm., son of Richard Hild, of the Parish of St. Sampson, in
the City of York, was Baptized Novbr. 7, 1748. Admitted
Janry 81, 1769.
Wm. Son of Jno. Simpson, of Sherburn, was baptiz'd March
the 19, 1750. Admitted Janry 81, 1759.
Jas., Son of Wm. Pate, of Sherburn, was baptiz'd July 25,
1750. Admitted January 81, 1759.
Thos., Son of Francis Hudson, of St. Michael le Belfry, in the
City of York, was baptized Janry 15, 1760. Admitted Jane
18, 1769.
Jas., Son of Miohl. Stoner, of Sherburn, was baptiz'd May 20,
1750. Admitted September 14, 1759.
Wm., Son of Wm. Settle, of Bridlington, Baptiz'd April 80,
1749. Admitted Janry 1, 1760.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 221
Ingram, Son of Samuel Lapish, of Saxton, Baptiz'd Septr. 9,
1750. Admitted May 26, 1760.
George, Son of Simon Brown, of Newhall, Baptiz'd March the
28, 1761. Admitted Janry 11, 1761.
John, Son of Thomas Groves, of Sherburn, was baptized Janry
6, 1758. Admitted 24 of June, 1761.
Jno., Son of Bobt. Clayton, of Sherburn, was baptized May 4,
1752. Admitted y* 6 of October, 1761.
Thomas, Son of Henry Lonsdale, of the Parish of St. Cruse in
the City of York, Baptiz'd May 6, 1753. Admitted May 17,
1768,
Bobert, Son of Annanias Bothomley, of the Parish of St. Johns
in the City of York, Baptiz'd 26, 1752. Admitted May 17, 1762.
Bartholomew, Son of Bobt. Clayton, of Sherburn, was baptized
y« 9 of September, 1764. Admitted the 20 of Feb, 1768.
Joseph, Son of Joseph Bradley, of Towton in ye Parish of Sax-
ton, was baptized 24 Feb., 1762. Admitted y* 28 Feb., 1768.
Henry Todd, was admitted the 21 day of March, 1768, aged
Nine Years yQ 4th Instant, March.
Henry, Son of John Wetherill, in Petergate, York, Bricklayer,
baptized July 12, 1752. Admitted 20 September, 1768.
John, son of John Spencer, of Biggin, was baptized August 24,
1756. Admitted 4 Jan., 1764.
John, Son of John Middlebrook, of Saxton, was baptized 10 of
March, 1756. Admitted 4 Jan., 1764.
William, Son of John Folken, of Barkstone, was baptized Sepbr
28, 1754. Admitted y6 Second Day of November, 1764.
William, Son of Joshua Todd, of Sherburn, was baptized August
y« 8, 1726. Admitted y« 2 Day of November, 1764.
Mathew, Son of Thos. Brown of Milford, was baptized June
12, 1767. Admitted y» 17 Day of January, 1765.
John, Son of George Nournvale, Bapd July y* 4, 1755. Admit-
ted the First day of November, 1764.
Lancelot Simpson, aged ten years Novr. last past, was admitted
y« 18th April, 1766.
William Blackburn, aged twelve years July last, admitted 18
April, 1766.
Thos. Barker, aged nine years, Feb. 17, 1765, was admitted 18
Feb., 1765.
William, Son of John Summers, aged 8 years May last, was
admitted 9 of November, 1765.
George, Son of George Middlewood, of Saxton, aged Eleven
Years June last, was admitted 9 of November, 1765.
James, Son of Jeremiah Shaw, Senr., aged Seven Years Sep-
tember last, was admitted 2 December, 1765.
Edward, Son of John Spencer, of Sherburn, was baptized 8
. July, 1769, and was admitted the 25 Day of November, 1766.
This Boy died Sep. 25, 1771.
222 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
John Bothamley, Son of Ananias Bothamley, aged about nine
Years, was admitted the 13 Day of January, 1767.
Michael Belerby, Son of Will. Belerby, of y* City of York, aged
about Eleven years, was admitted 29 Jan., 1767.
John, Son of Sarah Stead, of Sherbnrn, born 1759, aged seven
years August last, was admitted 80 January, 1767.
Matthew, Son of George Middlewood, of Saxton, born 1759,
aged seven Years April last, was admitted 80 January, 1767.
James, Son of William Gill, of Sherburn, aged seven yean Ap-
ril last, was admitted 80 Jan., 1767.
William, Son of William Storey, of York, baptis'd 1 June,
1760, was admitted 22 Day of June, 1768.
Jonathan, Son of William Bates, of Sherburn, aged eight years
January last past, was admitted 22 Day of June, 1768.
John, Son of Thos. Foster, aged seven Years August last, was
admitted Sep. 8, 1768.
John, the Son of Nathan Wright, of Sherburn, born 1761, aged
Seven Years August last, was admitted Sep 8, 1768.
Nathan, Son of Nathan Wright, of Sherburn, deceased, born
1759, aged Ten Years April last past, was admitted the 15
of December, 1769.
John, Son of John Johnson, of Sherburn, aged Seven Years
January last past, was admitted the 28 Day of March, 1770.
Stephen, Son of John Summers, of Sherburn, deceased, born
May 8, 1761, was admitted December y« 28, 1770.
John, Son of Bobt. Clayton, of Church Fenton, bap. Decbr 31,
1762, was admitted December y 28, 1770.
William, Son of John Spink, of Sherburn, bap. Jan 28, 1768,
was admitted Dec. the 28, 1770.
Joseph, Son of George Middlewood, of Saxton, was bap. August
y* 10, 1760, admitted December, y 28, 1770.
Thomas Shaw, of Sherburn, bap. Sep. 27, 1762, was admitted
at Martinmas, 1771.
George Williamson, of York, bap. Oot. 18, 1768, was admitted
at Martinmas, 1771.
Bobert Bolton, of Sherburn, bap. Jan. 8, 1764, was admitted
Martinmas, 1771.
Bichard, son of William Etherington, of Kippax, baptised Sep-
tember ya 80, 1761, admitted for the Parish of Saxton, April
24, 1772.
Thomas, son of Bichard Goft, of Sherburn, bap. July the 9th,
1764, admitted Ap. 24, 1772.
John Shelton, of Sherburn, baptized July 81, 1766, was admit-
ted, July 9, 1778.
John, son of John Higgins, of Saxton, bap. May 1, 1768, was
admitted July 9, 1778.
Joseph, son of Widow Shaw, of Sherburn, bap. 26th September,
1765, admitted July 9, 1778.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 22$
chard, son of William Johnson, of Sherburn, baptized Aug.
17, 1766, was admitted Sep. 18, 1776.
enry, son of Joseph Baynes, of York, baptized November 19,.
1765, was admitted May 1, 1775.
chard, son of John Higgins, of Saxton, was baptized May 2,
1765, admitted May 1, 1775.
lomas, son of Richard Smith, of Sherburn, was bapt. ApriL
29, 1764, admitted May 1, 1775.
lomas, son of John Burton, of Sherburn, was baptized Oct.
21, 1768, admitted Jan. 10, 1776.
chard, son of William Baildon, bap. Ap. 8, 1769, as appears
by the Register of the Parish of St. Denis of y6 City of York^
admitted June 25, 1776.
hn, son of Robert England, of Saxton, bap. January 15, 1766,.
admitted June 25, 76.
illiam, son of Thomas Fawcet, of Sherburn, bap. June 9, 1766,
admitted Aug. 18, 1776.
seph, son of Joseph Copley, of Lumby, bap. Sep. 9, 1769,.
admitted Sep. 9, 1776.
illiam, son of John Brown, of Milford, bap. July 80, 1769,
admitted Martinmas, 1776.
Uliam, son of William Dawson, of York, baptized October 8,
1766, admitted at Christmas, 1777.
tomas, son of Robert England, of Saxton, bap. Oct. 24, 1767 r
admitted Midsummer, 1777.
iorge, son of John Pickering, of Sherburn, bap. Oct. 29, 1769,.
admitted Sep. 80, 1777.
seph, son of John Copley, of York, born June 19, 1769,
admitted Nov. 2, 1778.
shard, son of Thomas Knowlson, late of York, was born Jun&
20, 1768, admitted Jan. 25, 1779.
omas, son of Richard Gill, of Sherburn, bap. Dec. 17, 1770,
was admitted June 1, 1779.
seph, son of John Brown, of Sherburn, bap. Feb. 14, 1772,
was admitted June 1, 1779.
;hard, son of William Milner, of Towton, bap. March 27,
L769, was admitted June 1, 1779.
Illiam, son of Matthew Kidd, late of York, born August ya 7th,.
L769, was admitted August 20, 1779.
omas Fountain, of Milford, bap. 25th June, 1772, was admitted
March 4, 1780.
lliam, son of Thomas Knowlson, late of York, was born Sep.
28, 1769, was admitted April 10, 1780.
lliam, son of Richard Jackson, late of York, bap. Feb. 16,
L771, admitted May the 1st, 1780.
omas Hudson, son of Thomas Hudson, late of York, bap.
Dctober 20, 1771, admitted May the 12th, 1780.
mes Duke, son of Michael Duke, late of York, bap. July the
3th, 1770, admitted June 1, 1780.
224 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
John, Son of William Fountayne, late of Saxton, was baptized
March the 7, 1770. Admitted Feb. 12, 1781.
William, son of William Fountayne, late of Saxton, was bap-
tized October the 18, 1772. Admitted Feb. 12, 1781.
Richard, Son of Thos. Shuttle worth, of Sherburn, was born
March ye 8, 1771, was admitted March 12, 1781.
Joshua, Son of John Houseman, of Barkston, was baptised
Oct. 1, 1772, was admitted into this School, May 22, 1781.
Thomas Eempeman, of Sandhutton, was born Feb. 12, 1774.
Admitted into this School, June the 12, 1781.
William, Son of Jonathan Tattershall, of York, born August 16,
1774, was admitted June 10, 1782.
John, Son of Robert Knowles, of York, baptized May 25, 1778,
was admitted September 28, 1782.
William, Son of William Dobson, of Milford, was baptized the
9 of July 1776, was admitted Sep. 16, 1788.
William Thompson, Son of William, late of Huddleston, bap.
August 2, 1774. An Orphan by the death of his Mother,
was admitted Sep. 24, 1788.
William Marshall Son of William, of York, born May 80, 1772.
An Orphan by the Death of his Mother, was admitted July
8, 1788.
William, Son of John Baker, of Sherburn, baptized December
8, 1775, was admitted 27 of September, 1788.
George Thompson, Son of John of Sherburn, bap. Aug. 2, 1775,
was admitted Feb. 8, 1784.
William Richardson, Son of Joseph of Sherburn, was bap.
Decbr. 2, 1776, was admitted Feb. 8, 1784.
John, Son of Thos. Gill, of Sherburn, was baptized December
28, 1775, was admitted May 1, 1784.
William Duke, son of Michael Duke, of York, deceased, was
baptized October 18, 1772, was admitted June 25, 1784.
George Calvert, son of William, of Sherburn, was baptized
December 11, 1776, was admitted Sep. 7, 1784.
John Strickland, son of Joseph, of Sherburn, was baptized
August 10, 1776, was admitted at Midsummer, 1785.
James, son of James Smith, of Milford, was bap. October 9,
1777, admitted Sep. 19, 1785.
James, son of Mark Ambler, of Milford, was born Oct. 16, 1778,
admitted Oct. 17, 1785.
Rowland, son of Mr. John Booth, of Gottingley Bridge, was
baptized September 28, 1776, as appears by the Register at
Bingley, was admitted May 1, 1786. Left y* School zmas,
1789.
Thomas Dimier, of York, was born May 11, 1776. Admitted
Oct. 20, 1786.
To lie continued.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 225
lUtgljbg <8uah*r fUgis&r.
Continued from page 160.
Deaths.
sab. Day. Month.
22 21 7 Thomas Blakey son of Thomas & Ann
Blakey of Kighley, bd- on the 28rd of
the same in friends' burying place in
Kighley, aged 10 yearB & 6 months
, 1 8 John Blakey son of Thomas & Ann Blakey
of Kighley, bd* on the 3rd in friends'
burying-ground in Kighley, aged 1 year
7 months
24 21 12 Hannah Waddington dan. of Thomas &
Hannah Waddington of Galversike hill
in the township of Kighley, bd- on the
28rd in the burying-place in Kighley,
aged 5 years, 6 months
21 12 Thomas Blakey of Silsden in the p'ish of
Kildwick, bd- in the grave-yard at Kigh-
ley on the 28rd, about 80 years of age
15 20 1 Bichard Waddington of Kighley, b*- on
the 23rd in friends' burying-place in
Kighley
J6 26 12 David Waddington son of Richard &
Margaret Waddington of Kighley, bd- on
the 1st of the 1st month in friends'
burying-place at the meeting-house in
Kighley, about 24 years of age
11 4 Joseph Ashold son of James & Martha
Ashold of Kighley, b*- on the 12th in
the friends' burying-place at the meet-
ing house in Kighley
25 4 Sarah Ashold dau. of James & Martha
Ashold of Kighley, bd- on the 26th at
friends' burying-place at the meeting-
house in Kighley
5 5 Joseph Town son of Henry & Grace Town
of Silsden in the p'ish of Kildwick, b*-
on the 7th at friends' burying-ground
at the meeting-house in Kighley, aged
8 years
8 6 William Davy son of William & Hannah
Davy of Whitley-head in the p'ish of
Kildwick, bd- on the 6th in friends'
burying-place at Galversike hill, near
20 years of age
YOBXSHIBE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Yeah. Day.
1726 18
12
Month.
18 12
1727 29
28 6
2 12
9 12
21 12
1729 24
Jonathan Ashold, son of James & Martha
Ashold of Kighley, b*- on the 14th in
friends' burying-place at the meeting-
house in Kighley, about 5 months of age
Elleanor Lister wife of William Lister of
Bingley, b*- on the 16th with friends at
Whitby
Thomas Blakey, son of Thomas & Ann
Blakey of Kighley, bd- on the 21st in
friends' burying-place at the meeting-
house in Kighley
Alice Davy, dau. of William & Hannah
Davy of Whitley-head in the p'ish of
Kildwick, b*- on the 1st of the 4th at
Calversike hill, in the 86th year of her age
Thomas Murgatroid of Boid-house in the
p'isli of Haworth, b** on the 12th in
friends' burying-place at the meeting-
house in Kighley. Aged.
John Wade of Steeton in the p'ish of
Kildwick, bd* on the 25th in friends'
burying-place at the meeting-house in
Kighley. Aged.
Wood of Galversike-hill within the
to\vSHi?*P °* ^*&klev» bd" on *^e *>th at
Calvers5&e"^» aSe* 79 years
Lawrence Ku&\son of.?enjy & !*<»?"*
of Oakcliff in thiV !* ?f c^lton; b* on
the 22nd in frieSOf bury^"Place m
Louthersdale, aged IV months
Jonathan Bothomley of 1^™* ** the
pish of Binglev, b*- o^# th° ?* "
friends' burying-place ii\ Kei8hley-
Aged 79 years. \bv
James Bamsden of Brathwate in k ° p ^
of Keighley, b* on the :
hill, near 49 years
Sarah Boads of Lees i
ley, b* on the 28rd~in friends' burying-
place in Keighley. Aged above 80
years.
Jonathan Scott of Wilsden in the p'ish of
Bradford, b* on the 26th in the friends'
grave-yard at the meeting-house
Keighley.
in
/
) I
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 227
Yeab. Day. Month.
1729 28 9 Jonas Hanson of Kighley, b*- on the 1st
of the 10th month in friends' burying-
place at the meeting-house in Keighley
,, 18 10 Abraham Butler of Birch-head near
Wilsden in the p'ish of Bradford, bd- on
the 17th at Cross-flatts near Bingley.
Aged 70 years
,, 19 10 Hannah Sharp, a child of William &
Hannah Sharp of Kighley, bd- on the
21st at the meeting-house in Keighley
1780 11 5 Mary Smith, dau. of Bobert & Hannah
Smith of Laycock in the p'ish of Keigh-
ley, b*- on the 15th at the meeting house
in Kighley. Aged 15 years
1781 80 2 Sarah Davy dau. of William & Hannah
Davy of Whitley-head in the p'ish of
Kildwick, bd- on the 3rd of the 3rd
month at Calversike-hill. Aged 28 years
„ 15 4 Dennis Davy son of William & Hannah
Davy of Whitley-head in the p'ish of
Kildwick, b** on the 18th at Calversike-
hill. In the 21st year of his age
1782 9 2 Lidia Davy of Wedding-hall in Lothersdale
in the parish of Carlton, bd- on the 12th
at Calversike-hill. In the 80th year of
her age
„ 17 8 Ruth Brigg, wife of Thomas Brigg of
Calversyke-hill in the township of Kigh-
ley, bd- on the 20th at Calversike-hill.
About the 59th year of her age
„ 1 10 Robert Walker of Bingley, b*- on the 4th
in his orchard at Bingley. About 40
years of age
„ 18 10 William Waddington son of John & Lidia
Waddington of Kighley, bd- on the 20th
in friends' burying-place in Kighley.
About 7 years of age.
1788 1 Judith Stansfield, dau. of Joshua Stans-
field by his first wife of Sand-beds in
the p'ish of Bingley, bd- on the 28rd at
the meeting-house in Keighley. In the
17th year of her age
,, 2 Jeremiah Heaton of Ravenroid near Bing-
ley, bd- on the 29th at Cross-flatts.
Aged about 80 years.
„ 4 8 Mary Blakey, widdow of Thomas Blakey
of Silsden in the p'ish of Kildwick, b*-
228 Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Year. Day. Month.
on the 6th in friends' burying-ground in
Eighley. Aged about BO years
1788 18 8 John Ashold of Kighley, b*- on the 15th at
the meeting-house in Eighley. Aged 83
years.
,, 19 4 Robert Smith of Lacock in the p'ish of
Kighley, b4- on the 21st at the meeting-
house in Kighley. In the 52 year of his
age
„ 8 4 Joseph Holmes of Brathwaite in the p'iah
of Kighley, bd- on the 10th in friends'
burying-place at Farr-field at Farr-field
meeting-house. In the 24 or 25 year of
his age
„ 80 8 John Baxter of Clough-bank in the p'ish
of Kighley, bd- on the 1st of the 9th
month at the meeting-house in Kighley.
Being 24 or 25 years of age.
„ 20 9 Bobert Smith son of William & Martha
Smith of Clough-bank in the p'ish of
Keighley, bd- on the 22nd at the burying-
place at the meeting-house in Kighley.
Aged 6 years
1784 8 1 Mary Ashold dau. of James & Martha
Ashold of Keighley, b** on the 11th in
friends' burying-place at the meeting-
house in Keighley. In the 17th year of
her age
„ 18 8 Timothy Maud of Gauthorp Hall near
Bingley, bd* on the 16th at the burying-
place at Cross-flatts. In the 78rd year
of his age
„ 21 8 Sarah Heaton, widow of Jeremiah Heaton
of Ravenroid in the p'ish of Bingley,
bd- on the 28rd in the friends' burying-
place at Crossflatts near Bingley Aged
88
1785 14 8 Margarett Hird, a widdow of Utley in the
township of Kighley, b4- on the 16th in
friends' burying place at the meeting-
house in Kighley. In the 84th year of
her age
,, 10 7 Thomas Brigg Dr (sic) of Calversike-hill,
bd> on the 13th at Calversike-hill. In
the 63rd year of his age
1786 20 8 Lois Brigg dau. of Joshua & Isabell Brigg
of Calversike-hill in the township of
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
bab. Day. Month.
Kighley, bd- on the 22nd at Calversike-
hUl. (aged 4mo. 18 days, Q.R.Y.)
87 5 1 Lydia Hardcastle wife of Thomas Hard-
castle (late of Hardcastle Garth, died at
Laycock in the parish of Kighley, bd-
at Calversike-hill, (aged 70 Q.R.Y.)
, 12 2 Hannah Davies, wife of William Davys of
Witlow-head in the parish of Kildwick,
bd- on the 15th at CaJversikehill. Aged
68
88 10 7 Jonas Suttclife of Haworth in the p'ish of
Bradford, bd- on the 18th in friends'
burying-place at Kighley. Aged 68.
89 11 4 Thomas Brigg of Laycock in the parish of
Kighley, b*- on the 14th at Calversike-
hill. (aged 46±, Q.R.Y.)
, ' 18 4 Jeremiah Brigg, b4- on the 21st at Calver-
sike-hill, (of Laycock aged 79)
41 18 11 Joseph Leach of Steeton in the parish of
Kildwick, b4- on the 17th in friends'
burying-ground at Kighley. Aged 74
years old
42 8 1 Dorathy Ambler late of Silsden, but last
of Midleton, bd- on the 11th at Calver-
sike-hill. Aged near 78 years
, 28 8 Judith Brigg of Lakack, bd- on the 26th at
Calversike hill, (aged 41, Q.R.Y.)
48 15 2 William Wade of Steton, bd- in friends'
burying-yard at Kighley
, 22 8 Grace Murgitroyd late of Rodhon in p'ish.
of Br'fd. b* on the 25th in friends'
burying-yard at Kighley
, 14 12 Joshua Stansfould in p'ish. of Kighley, b**
on the 17th in friends' burying-yard at
Kighley
16 2 7 Ruth Brigg of Kighley dau. of Joshua &
Isabel. Aged 2 years 7 mos. Q.R.Y.
7 8 Deborah Brigg, dau. of Thomas & Judith.
Aged 18 years 8 mos, Q.R.Y.
17 19 2 William Davy of Whitley Head. Aged 81,
Q.R.Y.
48 8 0 Mary Davy of Whitley Head. Aged 80,
Q.R.Y.
49 14 8 Mary Brigg, died at Laycock. Bd- on the
16th at Calversike hill in the 73rd year
of her age.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Yeab. Day. Month.
1751 19 8 Lydia Waddingion. B*- on the 22nd in
the burying place at Kighley
,,9 8 Hanah Bamsden. B*- on the 12th at
Calversikhill
,, 29 9 Agnes Bamsden her sister. Bd on the
2nd of the 10th at Calversikhill
1753 9 2 Thomas Brigg, son of Joshua and Isabell
New style. Brigg, of Calversikehill. Died in Sigh-
ley. Bd- on the 11th. Age 4 years.
(8 years 4 mos. Q.R.Y.)
1759 28 6 Thomas Blakey of Kighley. B*- on the
80th in friends' burying place at Kighley
1762 80 4 David Davy of Whitley-head, died at
Whitley -head in 8 tee ton, in the p'iflh
of Kildwick. Bd at Calversikehill on
the 2nd day of the 5th month. Aged
about 47
8 6 Mary Davy of Whitley Head. Aged'65
1763 26 6 Ann Davy, dau. of David and Mary Davy
of Whitley head in Steeton, in the pish
of Kildwick. Bd- at Calversikehill on
the 29th. Aged about 17 years
,, 22 7 James Husler died at Dub near Bingley.
Bd in friends burying ground at Cross-
flatts near Bingley. Aged about 85
,, 24 10 Dionis Ambler of Silsden in the p'ish of
called Kildwick. Bd on the 26th at Calversike
October hill, aged
1764 6 July Thomas Brigg of Guard house, son of
Thomas Brigg of Laycock. Aged 29 years
(not in a contemporaneous Jutiid.)
1765 25 10 Cornelia Horsefall of Haworth & dau. of
Joshua Brigg of Calversike hill. Bd on
the 27th, aged 28 years. She was wife
of William Horefall of Howarth
1766 11 11 Cornelia Horsefall, dau. of William Horsfall
of Howarth. B*- on the 12th at Calver-
sikehill, aged 1 year 1 month
1774 25 12 Isabell Brigg wife of Joshua Brigg, b4- no
(12 Q.R.Y.) the 28th at Calversike hill, aged 65
1775 18 2 Hannah Taylor died at Bedcar in the p'ish
of Kildwick. Bd- on the 16 in friends'
burying ground at Kighley. Aged 85
1789 29 Sept. Joshua Brigg of Calversike-hill (Apothe-
cary Q.R.Y.) in the 84th year of his age.
Bd- at Calversike hill
„ 7 5 William Davy of Whitley Head, aged 18,
Q.R.Y.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 281
car. Day. Month.
89 15 5 David Davy of Braithwaite, aged 2, Q.B. Y.
'91 2 October David Brigg, grandson of Thomas Brigg
of Guardhouse (who d. 1764) & son of
Thomas Brigg of Guardhouse (aged 8
weeks, Q.B.Y.) {written at a later date.)
(02 20 May William Davy of S tee ton, in the 58th year
of his age, b*- at Galversike hill
Paulina Davy of Steeton, dau.of the above
William Davy, b*- at Galversike hill
(17 28 Jan. Thomas Brigg of Guard house in his 54th
year, bd- at Calversike hill
(18 1 May William Davy of Steeton the younger, in
his 22nd year, b** at Calversike hill
„ 8 May Sarah Bobinson of Steeton, dau.of William
Davy the older, in her 25th year, b*» at
Calversike hill
(22 9 Feb. Thomas Brigg of Guardhouse, the younger,
aged 25 years, b** at Calversike hill
,, 28 May Barnard Brigg of Guardhouse, aged 12
years, b*- at Calversike hill
(89 80 Nov. . Sarah Davy of Steeton, aged 71 years
Dennis Davy of Steeton
(40 6 July Isable Brigg of Guard house, relict of the
late Thos. Brigg, in her 71st year
(45 11 Jan. Henry Marriner Brigg of Guard house,
son of Jno. & Margaret Ann Brigg, aged
5 months, b*- at Calversike hill
„ 22 Jan. Benjamin Brigg of Guard house, son of
Jno. & Margaret Ann Brigg, aged 4 years,
b*- at Calversike hill
,, 6 May Ann Isabella Brigg of Guard house, dau.
of John & Margaret Ann Brigg, aged 15
years, 6 months, b** at Calversike hill
jltanlrarg (gttahtrs' Hartal <Br0tm&.
In Part I. of York*. N. d- Q. there is a reprint of the Quakers9
egister at Stanbury, near Haworth. Tha following particulars
3 to the Burying place there are taken from original documents.
1670. 15. of the first month called March. Lease for 999
aars from William Clayton of Stanbury in the parish of Brad-
mi, yeoman to Christopher Smith & Jonas Smith his brother
F the same place clothiers, & Joseph Smith of the same
lace, blacksmith, "for the true & entire love & zeal which
e hath & beareth unto the truth of God & his people" &
>r divers other considerations, of one piece or parcel of
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
land commonly called Horton Croft situate at the Townend
of Stanbury aforesaid & "adjoining from & to the common
thereof on the North West & East part now in the inheritance
& occupation of the said William Clayton " To Have & to hold
the same as a grave yard or Burying-place at the rent of one
penny a year to be due at the feast of Pentecost, permission
being reserved to the said William Clayton & Sarah his wife
for their lives & the life of the longer liver to have the herbage
& grass & to put in at their will & pleasure.
signed William Claytok.
witnesses (not legible.) N.B. This is a copy on paper.
22 Nov. 1710. Lease from Timothy Maud of Crosflats in the
parish of Bingley & county of Yorke yeoman & Jeremy Brigg of
Laycook in the parish of Eighley & same county yeoman
on behalf of the assembly of the people called Quakers which
assembleth at their publick meeting house at Kighley to Mary
Smith of Stanbury in the parish of Bradford & said county
widdow at the yearly rent of two shillings and sixpence payable
at the time called Penticost for 21 years from the 2nd of Feb-
ruary last past of all that parcel of ground commonly called
Horton Croft at Stanbury town, now in the tenure of the said
Mary Smith. Always excepting & saving to the said Timothy
Maud & Jeremy Brigg for & on behalf of the assembly abovesaid
liberty to * interr & buery' therein the bodies of such persons
when & so often as they or any other person or persons elected
& assigned by the said assembly in their stead shall think proper
with liberty for all persons whatsoever to enter the said parcel
of ground at all times of such burials, & also liberty for the said
people called Quakers to meet once or twice a year or oftener
in the said ground in order to perform worship to God accord*
ing to their persuasion with liberty to all persons to enter at
such times as aforesaid. Covenants by Mary Smith to pay the
rent, not to plow sow or turn over any part of the ground & to
repair and maintain the wall belonging to the premises.
Signed T her mark
Mary | Smith
Witnesses
John Bamsden. (autog.)
Easter Y her mark Wildman
Bichard Wadington junr. (autog.)
(on paper.)
Mention of Stanbury Croft & of the letting of it is found in
the Minute Books up to 1800.
WITH YORKSHIKE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 288
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE
PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY'S, HONLEY;
By Mrs. Mary A. J agger. Continued from paye 201.
It is of interest to note that the year of our Queen's jubilee,
was also the Centenary of the Commutation of Tithes due
from Honley to Almondbury; and the enclosing of Honley
Moor.
Evidently the people of Honley had both morals and manners.
The Rev. John Wesley records preaching at Honley about
eleven o'clock on 80th April, 1788. The Rev. John Alexander,
M.A., read the prayers. John Wesley writes as follows : —
" After the Curate had read prayers to a large and serious
congregation, I preached on the text "It is appointed unto all
men once to die." I believe many felt, as well as heard, the
word."
The writer has heard old people say, that John Wesley
preached in the Churchyard ; and that he wore a black surplice.
As a result of his preaching, a year afterwards Deanhouse
Chapel was erected, the first Wesleyan Chapel built in the
Valley of the Holme. The cushion that was used by John
Wesley when he preached at Deanhouse, was preserved by the
Rev. Charles Drawbridge, Incumbent of Honley. It occupied
a place in his study, and he was very proud of the relic.
A spirit of insubordination now began to manifest itself
amongst the people. Work was scarce and food dear. Large
bodies of misguided men assembled by night, for the purpose
ef breaking obnoxious machinery, that they thought would take
the bread out of their mouths. The characteristic Yorkshire
Clothmakers, however, refused to be intimidated by the threats
of their workpeople. Once, creeping stealthily around the
walls of the old Chapel, the " Luddites " were intent on taking
dire vengeance upon one who had dared to bring into use the
hateful machines,— the late Mr. William Leigh. His house
was opposite the old Chapel-door. The family were aroused
from their sleep by the report of a pistol outside. One of the
sons of the village had been chosen by drawing lots to shoot
Mr. William Leigh ; and with loaded gun he awaited the es-
cape of this gentleman by the back entrance of his house ; whilst
others were trying to batter down the front door with huge
stones ; so as to force him to escape by the back door. The
clank of the accoutrements of the cavalry sounding distinctly
in the distance, prevented further outrage. The " Luddites "
passed up the village street, as silently as they had come ; and
Mr. Leigh was left unharmed, though his windows were broken.
Many a mother's heart must have ached with apprehension and
dread, as she knelt in the old Chapel, for Honley had many of
her sons engaged in this insurrection. Transition in crime is
286 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
We have noticed the sturdy traits of the congregation ; but
there is also a humorous side. The quaint and pithy sayings
of the people are proverbial ; and the presence of neither
"Parson nor Clerk" has any influence to overawe Honley
psople if they wish to speak. When they removed the pulpit it
necessitated the alterations of some pews.
After the alterations, an aggrieved pew-owner refused to sit
only in the same place where his pew had been previously
located. As the pulpit occupied that site, this was impossible.
He was not to be propitiated by the offer of another seat in a
more agreeable situation, and he was wont to stalk up the
middle aisle with his three-legged stool under his arm. Look-
ing around upon the congregation he would exclaim, "I wonder
if there is room here." Then putting down the stool in the
middle aisle, he would sit down upon it. Certainly it is more
profitable and easy to have a grievance than to redress one, and
I hope that conspicuous self-chosen Martyr was happy with his.
After the alterations, a resident of Netherthong also con-
sidered herself wronged with regard to the part-ownership of a
pew. The rightful owner not only refused to allow the native
of Netherthong to share her pew, but debarred her from enter-
ing, by having a padlock put upon the door. Nothing daunted,
this lady, on each successive Sunday, climbed over the sides of
the pew, and defiantly sat in the disputed place. It must have
been very edifying to witness this performance, and the woman
would certainiy have been more benefited in following John
Buskin's advice, to go and pray behind a hedge.
Another local worthy constituted himself into a watchful
sentinel upon the actions of his Clergyman. The latter was
not so punctual at Church as he ought to have been. If by
any chance he was seen to hurry up tho pulpit stairs a few
minutes late, the punctual and alert worshipper would cry out,
" What ! late again, lad, late again ! "
The Parish Clerk was a conspicuous figure, both in the old
Chapel and in the present Church. One noted character, whilst
half asleep, jumped up in the middle of the sermon, and cried
out " Amen." He was not aware of his precipitate haste until
rebuked from above by the Clergyman. A strange Clergyman
who had been preaching one Sunday Morning was fishing for
compliments about his Sermon from this old clerk. His reply
was not at all flattering, for the old clerk was as destitute of
compliments as the present Honley dyke is of fish. It was as
follows : — " Yore Sarmon, Maister, is wa'ar nor weak broth,
an1 cowder nor Nan-hob watter." (Nan-hob, a beautiful spring
of water in the township). On one occasion, when the congre-
gation was small on account of the day being cold and stormy,
this old clerk invited the said preacher to mount upon the vestry
table, and discourse to them from there, whilst the congregation
sat around the vestry fire for greater comfort.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 287
Extremes meet, and the old clerk, from being too alert, one
Sunday during the sermon, overslept himself. The congregation
waited impatiently for the number of the concluding hymn, but
the old clerk slept on, calmly unconscious of his duty. Another
old Honley worthy cried out testily, " Waken that sleepy clerk."
The love and cultivated taste for music in the district is well
known, being literally a land of song. Who has not heard the
strains of sweet music, all the parts blending together in perfect
harmony, from some Village Church or hill- side Chapel ? At
that time Honley possessed some of the best singers, and
performers upon various instruments in the neighbourhood.
Musical gatherings took place at each other's homes, dark
nights and long walks proving no obstacles. The largest
gathering was on Honley Feast Sunday, when in the old
Chapel, " Great Sings," as they were called, were held. Old
local musicians will recall the memory of these wonderful
gatherings. Vast crowds assembled to listen, not only the
Church being filled to overflowing, but the grave-yard and
street were crowded with listeners. Oratorios and other kinds
of sacred music were sung, reinforced by instrumentalists, and
a charge for admission was made. This custom was discon-
tinued when the late Mr. Drawbridge became the incumbent,
of whom more will be said. The influence of Mr. Drawbridge
must have been considerable, when an old village custom could
be thus discontinued without some more forcible remonstrance
than words. At one of these " Great Sings," a famed local
vocalist mounted the high singing gallery. She had been
absent from it for many years on account of maternal duties.
As it was the Sunday after the Battle of Waterloo (and Honley
had many of her sons engaged in that battle), she was requested
to sing " Lovely Peace." So well was this sung that enthusiastic
musicians were with difficulty restrained from loudly applaud-
ing her. On another occasion when the Church was crowded,
a favourite singer warbled forth, " Angels ever bright and fair,
Take, 0 take me to your care." An old native, whose ardent
love for music broke the bounds of decorum, cried out, " Aye,
that they will, lass, for such a sweet voice as that can never go
to the devil."
We know that harmony is apt to breed discord, and many a
feud has been fought out in the high singing loft of the old
chapel. The book of Psalms by Sternhold and Hopkins was in
use. The singers wished to adopt the new version, composed
by Nahum Tate, the then Poet Laureate, and set to music by
Brady. This change was not allowed without much contention
and hard words. Another Clergyman, a Mr. Stafford, like the
Puritans, preferred sour solemnity to the singing of God's
praises; (least history informs us that this was a Puritanical
trait). Mr. Stafford thought that a joyful noise, at the best,
288 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
was only the singing of songs and ballads, that tended to the
nourishing of vice, or the corrupting of youth. Mr. Stafford
refused to allow either the Psalms or Canticles to be sung.
Taking little heed of this refusal, the Choir after the first lesson
chanted the Te Deum. After the second lesson, however, Mr.
Stafford was too quick for the singers, and succeeded in reading
the Jubilate himself. This victory was followed by a defeat
When the number of the hymn was given, neither organist nor
singers answered to the call. They sat in defiant silence, and
during the rest of the service Mr. Stafford had the pleasure of
listening only to his own voice. At this time, to keep the peace
between Clergyman and Singers, the services of both Constable
and Churchwardens were required.
As we are on the subject of music, it will not be out of place
to bring before the readers the well-known anecdote of the
Organist and his Blower. I have often noticed that this anec-
dote has been claimed as belonging to other parishes, but the
writers have been misinformed. The circumstance occurred at
Honley, the Organist being John Hirst, and his blower, Joseph
Bradbury, but known in the village by the cognomen of Joe
" Sprod." A previous rehearsal of the music to be sung at one
of the "Great Sings" had so elated the Organist, that he added
his own praises. This self-praise on the part of the organist
did not please Joe, who listened in sulky silence. " Of what
use were all the clever performances on the organ if he did not
blow?" thought Joe to himself. No sweet sounds could be
heard if he did not supply the wind ! Joe waxed wroth at the
slight put upon his performances. On the following Sunday,
at a most critical part of a difficult accompaniment, the organ
suddenly became silent for lack of breath. "Blow, blow/'
loudly whispered the enraged organist. " Is it we then ?" said
the blower. The wits of the organist were like some of his
notes, sharp, and he instantly replied " Yes, we Joe — go on."
It was the custom in the old chapel, that when any member
of the congregation died, to sing Luther's hymn. The singing
was reinforced after each verse by three loud blasts from a
trumpet. It is recorded that once a Clergyman came to preach
who was unaware of this custom. What was his consternation,
not unmixed with terror, to hear the powerful blasts from the
trumpet, sent forth by the trumpeter, James France. The
singing of this venerable melody, and the sound of the trumpet
had always a very powerful effect upon the congregation.
We must now take a farewell of the old chapel and its
congregation, all — except some of the youthful members —
lying quietly at rest in the church-yard or cemetery. The
old building had now begun to totter with age. The rafters
were rotten, the oak pews were in a ruinous condition, and
one day, from the outside, the roof was observed to sink in
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some parts. It was thought advisable to consult Mr. Chantrell,
the eminent architect, of Leeds. He suggested that the build-
ing " should be taken down, and a New Church built upon the
old foundation." Having had bitter experience with regard to
the expenses of the litigations at York, the Congregation, before
acting upon Mr. ChantrelTs suggestion, ascertained if sufficient
funds would be forthcoming to accomplish the work. This
being found practicable, they at once made preparations to
commence the re-building.
On Sunday, January 9th, 1842, the Church was closed. A
large congregation assembled for the last time in the Old
Chapel. The Eev. Charles Drawbridge, who had officiated
there as Curate for nineteen years, preached from Psalm xxxvi,
8 verse — " Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house/'
He divided his sermon into two parts ; in the first, noticing the
past history of the sacred building ; and in the second, examin-
ing the testimonies of our love for the Lord's house. From
an extract in the parish book, it is written that " the occasion
was felt to be a very solemn one by the numerous congregation
assembled."
The people could not look for the last time upon the old
building without feelings of regret. It had been associated
with all that was best and dearest in their lives; and the
ancient landmark was to be removed. What mattered their
old contentions of who should be first, or who last ? Like the
old edifice, they too would " have their day and cease to be."
According to the entry in the parish book, written by Mr.
Drawbridge, it says — "On the following Monday morning,
January 10th, 1842, the Contractors entered the building, and
begun dismantling and throwing down."
The present and third edifice, built upon the same foundation
as previous structures, can now, since the death of Canon
Hulbert in March, 1888, claim the title of Parish Church. It
was one year and eight months in building. The Foundation
Stone was laid by the late Thomas Brooke, Esq., of Northgate
House, Honley, on February 14th, 1842. The Church was
opened for Divine worship on Thursday, Oct. 26th, 1848. The
Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, and the Rev. Josiah Bate-
man, Vicar of Huddersfield, preached the two opening sermons.
The Rev. Chas. Drawbridge who had preached the last sermon
in the old chapel, also preached on the first Sunday in the new
building. The subject taken for this sermon was from Exodus
xx, 24 verse,—" In all places where I record My name, I will
come unto thee and bless thee." There has been no record
kept of the other sermons.
The style of the present Church is Gothic, and it is a noble
and lofty edifice. It has capacious galleries on three sides, and
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the organ with singing-seat at the West end. The nave is -sus-
tained by six arches, and in length measures seventy-eight feet,
and in breadth, including aisles, forty-seven feet. The square
lofty tower which is 105 feet high, contains a clock, with four
dials, and two bells. The present Organ that took the place of
the old one, was given by Miss Marshall, who at that time re-
sided at Northgate Mount. It was opened on December 17th,
1858, by Mr. George Allen Beaumont, a clever young organist.
This promising musician died at the early age of nineteen. The
crowd at the opening of this organ was so great that it partook
of the nature of the vast gatherings that were wont to assemble
at the " Great Sings."
The staves that were formerly in more use than at present,
belonging to the Constable and Churchwardens, still stand
upright at the entrance of the Church. At the re-building,
they were painted afresh, and one bears date 1848, the other
1880. The font is a piece of fine massive stone, and chastely
carved. It now stands in the Baptistry, that was until lately,
the pew occupied by the Churchwardens and Constable. The
font has a bell-shaped canopy of carved oak, presented by the
present Vicar. The wood was taken from an old Oak tree that
stood on the top of Timinets-Brow.
Under the three aisles of the Nave, the Tower, the East and
West aisles, as well as under the Chancel, are buried many of
the old families of Honley. Some of these names are mentioned
in the Poll-tax of King Richard II. and are still represented by
living descendants. Their sound is familiar to the ear, for they
are like the Saxon words — homely, and of native grit. Under
modern sanitary ideas, the custom of burying the dead inside
the Church is objectionable. As our feet walk over their
remains, we almost forget that fact in the many thoughts that
those old records suggest.
The Chancel is very lofty, and it has three windows. It
contains the Communion Table and two antique Oak Chairs,
given by the late Miss Armitage. Against the walls are the
Ten Commandments, the Apostle's Creed, and the Lord's Prayer.
Over the Communion Table is written " I am the Bread of Life/'
The Monumental Tablets on the walls will be desoribed more
fully later on. There is a pulpit, reading, and Clerk's Desk.
In 1887, the Church Plate was augmented by the presentation
of a gold and silver-gilt Paten and Chalice by Miss Siddon and
Miss 0. Brooke. Miss Siddon also gave new white Altar-cloths,
and Miss 0. Brooke an Alms Dish and Offertory Bags at the
same time.
To he continued.
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Cmti's fgorh Coins*
By the Bev. G. F. Crowther, M.A., Member of the Council
of the Numismatic Society, and Author of a "Guide to English
Pattern Coins."
The reprint of the chapter on Cnut's York coins, which
recently appeared in "Yorkshire Notes and Queries," extracted
from a catalogue by Bichard Gough, Esq., (London, 1777),
reminds us that the science of numismatics was then in its
infancy.
To one who has never given any special study to this subject
it must seem " passing strange " that the same coin reading
LEODMEB ON BVC should have been variously attributed
to Lincoln, Winchester and Bichmond. But those conversant
with this period of our coinage Will be more amused by the
statement that on a coin reading PVLNOD SR) EOFEBP,
the king is depicted in the midst of a "field of corn'1! He
might as well have been described as among the brambles
gathering blackberries ; or, better still, as surrounded by the
waves of the sea shore. This latter description would at least
have seemed to rest on some historic basis. Evidently a few
flaws in the metal have led astray some collector with ji vivid
imagination.
Such an eccentric description as that referred to above will
not be thought deserving of serious refutation in the present
day. The attribution however of the coin of LEODMEB to
the town of Bichmond in Yorkshire cannot be so lightly dis-
missed.
Those who wish to claim for Yorkshire the honour of an
additional mint will possibly ask to what other place this coin
can be ascribed, ibid the question is not unfair. Those
persons, however, who maintain that the coin was struck at
Bichmond should bear in mind that Gough was by no means
so positive on this point as they themselves are. And we must
not forget that we have many early coins, of which it is not yet
possible for us to be certain from what mint they emanated.
A penny of iEthelraed II. in my own collection will illustrate
my meaning. The coin reads LEOPBIC llo LIMNA, and
appears to have been struck in Kent, either at Lyminge or at
Limne. In those days Lyminge seems to have been rather the
more important of the two towns, and chiefly for that reason I
am inclined to attribute my coin to that place. But the
evidence for this attribution is not sufficient to amount to
certainty ; and further evidence might prove that the coin was
struck at Limne. Now with regard to Yorkshire, there does
not seem to be any external evidence that a mint ever existed
either at Bichmond or Bipon. No such mint is mentioned in
T.N.Q. Q
442 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
any of the standard works on the subject. In th6 " Annals of
the Coinage " (3rd ed., 1840), the Rev. B. finding states that
some coins of Cnut read. RlL, BIV, .RING : bnt gives no sug-
gestion as to the place whence they were issued. In the
" Silver coins of England " (8rd ed., 1887), by Edw. Hawkins,
revised by Mr. Kenyon, the coin reading RI<7 is doubtfully
attributed to Castle Rising : and one reading RVI to Romney :
but of that reading RINC (now in Mr. Rashleigh's collection)
no explanation is suggested.
In " Anglosachsiska Mynt " (2nd ed. 1881], a Swedish work
by B. E. Hildebrand, keeper of the royal collection of medals
at Stockholm, all varieties of Saxon coins which have been
found in Sweden are carefully noted. The Stockholm museum
contains as many as 3869 coins of Cnut, each differing from sll
the others in some minute particular. If we compare the
numbers struck at each town, we shall see that London heads
the list with 1010 specimens, while York ranks second with 448,
and Lincoln third with 886 specimens. Of coins whioh might
be claimed for Richmond or Castle Rising, Hildebrand describes
three, reading,
*ZIRI(7 ON RICYEBH
ZIRIC ON RINE
VLF ON RICZZA
In the text of his work Hildebrand says, these are "probably
of Rising Castle in Norfolk, or of Richborough in Buckingham-
shire." So of the three standard authorities on this period,
one mentions the coins without stating where they were struck,
another hesitatingly suggests Castle Rising, and the third,
while thinking that suggestion probable, is of opinion that they
might owe their origin to Richborough in Buckinghamshire.
Two then out of the three authorities on this period are in
favour of the attribution of these coins to the Castle Rising
mint: and their opinion is endorsed by the curators of the
collection in the British Museum. A coin of Cnut, in that
collection, reading,
CNOFLNEN ON RIC
is catalogued as of the Castle Rising mint.
It may seem surprising to some readers that numismatists
should speak with certainty of a mint having been at work
in a little Norfolk village, the inhabitants of which scarcely
number three hundred aud fifty; while those same numismatists
doubt that coins were ever struck in the town of Richmond.
But nevertheless, a penny of Stephen, now in the collection of
Mr. Montagu, on which the name of the mint is given in fall,
establishes beyond a doubt the fact, that moneyers worked in
Stephen's reign at Castle Rising, t Possibly it may be replied,
♦All the Z'b Bhould be reversed, the perpendicular line sloping contrary way.
t Mr. Montagu's penny of Stephen reads HIVN ON RI8INGE.
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248
that from the reign of Cnut to that of Stephen is a long inter-
val; and proof that moneyers worked at Castle Rising in
Stephen's reign is not proof that they worked at the same place
in the reign of Gnnt. We are well aware of that ; but still, as
evidence bearing on the respective claims of Castle Rising,
Bichborough and Richmond is so scanty, the coin of Stephen
renders the antecedent probability very great that many of the
pennies in question were struck at Castle Rising.
What has been stated above with regard to these coins may
be summed up Anus in a few words : —
Those pennies of Cnut reading RIC may be of the Castle
Rising mint.
The penny reading RIV (given by Ruding) is probably the
same as that reading RYI (given by Hks.); and if so, of the
Romney mint.
Ruding's RING' and Hildebrand's RINE may be the same :
and are possibly blundered coins of Lincoln (LINC) or Win-
chester /PINT). Ruding's may even be the same coin as that
said by (rough to read "-RIPO, which he stated was in the
Duke of Devonshire's collection. No such coin was noted in
the sale catalogue of his collection.
Now with respect to the York mint. The coins mentioned
by Gough, which have the name of the mint on the obverse as
well as on the reverse are remarkable. They are also noted in
Hks., so possibly specimens are still known. The list of
moneyers who worked at York, as given by Gough, can be
largely supplemented. In the following list, taken from Hilde-
brand, I have tried to the best of my ability to eliminate mere
repetitions of the same name in other forms, so as to give some
idea of the number of moneyers who worked at York in Cnut's
reign. By looking through the York coins in the British
Museum, I have been able to add a few names not given by
Hildebrand, and have noted my authority for this by placing
the letters [B.M.] after these names.
List of Cnut's York Moneyers.
iEtfELPINE
.ELFERE
iEDELPINE
ABNCETEL
ARNOLF [B.M.]
AZCVTR
AZFERD
AZtfOD
AZtfOVT
BEORN
BIRHTNOZ)
BRAND
S3versed Z's.)
TN07)
BRETECOL
BRVNIC
CETEL
COLtfRIM
CRINAN
CRINVLF (Gough)
ORVCAN
(7RVRN
CYTEL
DAHFIN
DEORZI6HE [B.M.]
EARN CYTEL
EARNtfRIM
EIMVLF [B.M.]
ELFZTAN
ELF PINE (Gough)
E7)ELPINE
FyER7)EIN
FARtfRIM
FRIOCOL
OIMVLF
RODMAN
(?RIMAN [B.M.]
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
♦GODNA [G.F.C.]
(7RIMOLF
GRVRN
tfVNHPAT
HEARDECNVT
HILDOLF
(NILDVP Gough)
HILDRED
IBE
LEFPINE
OZGOT
ODIN
OVZTMAN
OVDtfRIM
REFEN
RINVLF (Gough)
SCVLAA
SELECOL
ZERTINE.(Hil)
ZVRITINE [B.M.]
ZNECOL
STIRC
STIRCER
STIRCOL
ZVNOLF
ZP-AZER
8PEOEN
BPERTINE
DVRtfRIM
DVRIM
VCEDE
VLFCETEL
VLFGRIM
PIPAN [B.M.]
PIDERINE
(PIDB.UI)
PVLFNOT)
PVLZIGE
PVLZTAN
(VZTMAN)
In the above list the vowels O and V are often interchanged,
the same man spelling his name at one time with the ending
OLF, at another with VLF. The coin of GODNA in my
collection is by an unpublished moneyer, and is also an un-
published variety. It is like Hks. No. 218 and Hildebrand
type G., but has no sceptre in front of the king. It is of aver-
age weight, 17 grs., and reads GODNA SR) EOFER.
The great number and variety of Cnut's English coins is a
proof of the wealth of the country. No Danish coins of this
king are known. Of all his dominions Cnut prized England
most. He gave it the place of honour amongst his titles. It
was his favourite place of residence. In everything but his
birth Cnut was an Englishman, and he had at heart the wel-
fare of the country over which he ruled. During the whole of
his reign, England was in a state of peace and prosperity.
And it was a dark day for England when Cnut the Great died
at Shaftesbury on Nov. 11th, 1085.
IjorkfifjtK dittos
in Wabbueton Collection, Lansdowne MBS., British Musbtx.
CONTRIBUTED BT Ml8S E. IjLOTD.
John Warburton, ob. 1759. Coll: for Yorkshire. Lansdowne
MS. 889-99 ; 895 ; 909 ; 914-17. 889— This no. and the 10
next ensuing form Mr. Warburton's Coll : of Materials for the
Hist, of Yorkshire, partly in fragments of printed books, partlv
in MS.
914, 4to, contains a great many views of towns, ruins, gentle-
men's seats, etc., chiefly pen and ink sketches, several of which
are very neatly executed.
S. Buck. Engraving of Lazinby Hall, nr. Northallerton, in
the County of York, one of the seats of Henry Pierse, Esq., to
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whom this plate is humbly inscribed by his obliged friend and
servant, John Warburton, Somerset.
T. Harris, Sculp., Ex. Coll., I.W.
Pen and Ink. Beverley from the West.
Bishop Burton Hall, the seat of Gee, Esq.
Beswick, the seat of Dan. Draper, Esq., to the West.
The North Prospect of Watton Abbey, the seat of Hugh
Bethell, Esq.
Killick, the seat of John Atkins, Esq., to the South.
Weighton, to the North.
Loansbrough, the seat of the Earl of Burlington, to the South.
The Prospect of Everingham, seat of Sir Mar: Constable, Bt.
The West view of Hayton, the seat of Hen. Cutler, Esq.
Warter, the seat of Joseph Pennington, Esq., to the S. East.
The Prospect of Kildwick Perse as improved by Sir Edward
Anderton, Bart.
The East Prospect of Pocklington, Aldby, the seat of Henry
Parley, Esq. to the South.
The seat of (Ld. Erwin ? in pencil), in Burdsall, (very slight
sketch).
North Grimston, the seat of Tho. Langley, Esq. to the East.
The East Front of Burdsall, the seat of Tho. Sowtheby, Esq.
Kirkham Abby in the County of York.
K&apton, the seat of Tho. Sutton, Esq. to the South.
Malton to the South.
The Buins of Kirkham Priory to the North.
Howsome, the seat of Sir John Wentworth, Bart., to the South.
( ), seat of Tobi) T„i- a t?0„
Robt.renkm8'Esq-
The S.E. Prospect of Middlethorp, the seat of Fran. Barlow.
Naburn, the seat of George Palmes, Esq.
The S. East Prospect of Bella Hall, the seat of Hewley
Baines, Esq.
The S. Prospect of Moorby, the seat of Marm. Lawson, Esq.
The West Prospect of Eexby, the seat of C. Headlam, Esq.
The South West Prospect of Thicket, the seat of Humph.
Robinson, Esq.
The Prospect of Bray ton Hall, the seat of Bob. Pockley, Esq.
Burn, the seat of Bobt. Mitford, Esq.
The N. West Prospect of Cambleforth, the seat of John
Addams, Esq.
The South West Prospect of Bawcliffe Hall, the seat of
Boynton Boynton, Esq.
The East Prospect of Carlton, the seat of Hen. Stapylton, Esq.
The North Prospect of Cowick, the seat of the Lord Yisct.
Downe.
Pontefract to the South.
The South West Prospect of the seat of J Savile, Esq.
246 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
The South Prospect of Woinersley, the seat of Tobtth
Harvey, Esq.
The South Prospect of Stapleton Hall, the seat of Sam
Walker, Esq.
The South Prospect of Norton Priory, the seat of John
Bamsden, Esq.
The North Prospect of Campsall, the seat of Bichd. Franks, Esq.
The South Prospect of Campsall Hall, the Beat of Tho.
Yarborough.
The South Prospect of Wheatley, the seat of Sir Geo. Cook, Bart.
The South East Prospect of Cudworth, the seat of Thos.
Wright son, Esq.
Prospect of the seat of John Batty, Esq.
The South Prospect of 8prot borough, the seat of Lionel
Copley, Esq.
The North E. Prospect of Wad worth, the seats of Will,
Arthur and Lionel Copley, Esqs.
The Prospects of Eatlington alias Edlington, the seat of the
Bight Hon. the Lord Molesworth.
This Monument was erected by the Pres'* Lord Molesworth
over a Favoret Dogg, and inscribed as above. It is of white
marble and placed at the principal center of the Vista in his
pine woods at Edlington.
Sisti Viator nee mirard
Supremo Efferri ? honore (or Etterri ?)
Extinctum, cattellum
Sed Qualem,
Quern forma insinguis modusq candor
Morum gratia ffacilesq lusus
Amo obsequium fides.
Delicias Domini fecire
Cujus lateri adhoesit aflionus
Conviva sociusq thori
Illo comite.
Vis animi herelis delassorta
Ingenium mentemq novam samebat
Ictis pro miritis non ingratus heras
Memoria hac urna mortuum
Defleus locavit
B. M. F. C.
On the back of the stones —
Ingurioae ne Ped Promas
Stautom Columnam.
North Prospect of Crookhill, the seat of Wm. Woodyear, E6q.
North Prospect of Bramley Hall, the seat of Hen. Eyre, Esq.
The South Prospect of Bramley Orange, the seat of Will:
Spencer, Esq.
Thuroroft, the seat of Wm. Beck with, Esq., to the South.
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The South Prospect of the seat of John Hatfield, Esq., ift
Laughton-le-Morthen.
North Prospect of Slate Horton, the seat of John Mirfin, Esq.
Fountain's, the seat of John Messenger, Esq., to the South.
Brampton, . of John Bradshaw, Esq., to the 8. East.
This column was erected in the Market Place at Bipon by
the Bt. Hon. John Aislaby, Esq. An. Dom. 17 — .
Todwick Hall, the seat of Garland, Esq.
The South Prospect of Fountain's Abbey.
Kiveton, the seat of
East of Aston Hall. E. of Holderness.
8. W. Gillwaite Hall, Geo. Westby, Esq.
N. W. High House, Geo. Bainforth, Esq.
S. W. Whitley Hall, nr. Sheffield, Jno. Shirediffe, Esq.
W. Thundercliffe Grange, Wm. Green, Esq.
S. Howsley Hall, Howsley Freeman, Esq.
S. Wortley, Hon. Wortley Montague, Esq.
E. Hall, Earl of Strafford.
E. Stainber
S. Bridge House, nr. Sheffield, T. Wright, Gent.
Mr. Bay's new house at Sheffield.
Sheffield ; including the Old Church, the New Church,
Hospital, Sheffield Manor, Sheffield Castle, Market
Place, Free School.
E. Broom Hall, nr. Sheffield, Wm. Jessop, Esq.
N. Sheffield Manor, D. of Norfolk.
N. Moorgate Hall, John Fookes, Esq.
Rothbbham. — Double page with Coat of Arms in corner, and
dedication to Thos. Wentworth, Esq. of Wentworth Woodhouse,
P. T. Warburton, and signed Saml. Buck, deli et , 1728.
S. W. Carrhouse Grange, Westby Gill, Esq.
N. W. Aldwarke Hall, Fran. Foljamb, Esq.
8. Bawmarsh Hall, Edwd. Goodwin, Esq.
N. Wentworth wood house, Tho. Wentworth, Esq.
E. Wombwell Hall, Wombwell, Esq.
P. of Barnsley.
N. Worsper Village. [Worsborough.]
Glen House, nr. Barnsley, Hen. Carrington, Gent.
8. Banks Hall, Wm. Green, Esq.
A distant 8. W. view of Monk Bretton Priory.
8. Cannon Hall, J. Will. Spencer, Esq.
S. Burtwaite Hall, John Silvester, Esq.
8. Haigh Hall, Wm. Westby Cotton, Gent.
Bretton Hall, Sir Willm. Wentworth, Bart.
Seats of Mr. Nicho. Burley, in Woolly.
S. Woolley Hall, Wm. Wentworth, Esq.
Chapelthorpe, Thos. Beaumont, Esq.
S. Pr[ospect] of Wakefield.
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E. Heath, Sir Chas. Dalston, Bart.
S. Heath, John Smith, Esq.
Hauley ? Sir Lionel Pilkington, Bt.
Mr. Clark's house in [ ] near Wakefield.
Mr. Hatfield's house near Stanley.
Lupset Hall, Rich. Wit ton, Esq.
S. Mr. Bawson's house in Bradford.
S. Bradford.
S. Boiling Hall, Fran. Lindley, Esq.
8. North Bierley, Bichd. Richardson, Esq.
Roads Hall, Willm. Rookes, Esq.
High Fearnley, John Richardson, Esq.
S. Ryshworth, Wm. Bnsfield, Esq.
N. E. Riddlesden Hall, Starkey.
S. Eildwiok, Hen. Gurrer.
N. view of Skipton in Craven.
N. W. Broughton Hall, Stephen Tempest, Esq.
W. Barnoldswick, Wm. Drake, Esq.
S. Marton Hall, Thos. Heber, Esq.
E. Horton, Edwd. Hoyle, (?) Gent.
S. Guisburn Hall, Henry Marsden.
E. Weston Hall in Craven, Tho. Lister.
E. Bolton Hall, Ambrose Pudsey, Esq.
S. Parker's Hospital in Waddington.
Bashall, Wm. Ferrers, Esq.
E. Broxholme Hall in Bolland, Edwd. Parker, Esq.
Dunnag Hall, near Slatebum, Slinger, Esq.
Slateburn Free Schoole, founded and endowed by
Brennand, late collector in the excise.
Slateburn Town Head, the seat of Mr. Hen.Wiglesworth.
Hammerton Hall in Craven, heretofore the seat of Mr.
Hammerton, bnt now belonging to Chetham'fl Coll:
in Manchester, Lancashire.
S. Rushton Grange, Alan Johnson, Esq.
S. Catterick Hall, near Settle, Chas. Harris, Esq.
Langcliffe Hall, near Settle, Wm. Dawson, Esq.
The Ebbing and Flowing Well, nr. Giggleewick.
The W. Prospect of Settle in Craven.
Holling Hall.
Chapelside Hall. .
E. Beamsley Hill, John Morton, Gent.
Bolton Free School, founded and endowed by Robert
Boyle, Esq.
S. E. Ruins of Bolton Abbey in Craven.
Distant view do.
8. Denton Hall, Sam. Ibbetson, Esq.
E. Burley Hall.
Wesston Hall, Wm. Vavasour, Esq.
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Prospect of Otley.
Newel, Edmd. Barker, Esq.
Farnley, Fran. Fawkes, Esq.
W. Learley (Leathley), Bobt. Hitch, Esq.
Cookridge, Rev. Wm. Lumley.
Hawksworth, Sir Walter Hawkesworth.
Horsforth, John Staqhope, Esq.
Leeds.
Do. con.
Y. The Vioaridge erected by the Corporation of Leeds.
Major Thornton's ? in Leeds.
Methley Hall, Hen. Savile, Esq.
The New Dogg Kenel erreoted in Methley Park.
V. Mr. Shann's house at Methley.
Kippax Park, Sir John Bland, Bt.
7. Ledstane, The Lady Eliz. Hastings.
7. Eippax Hall, Sir Reginald Graham, Bt.
Temple Newsam, Ld. Visct. Irwin.
Byrom Hall, Sir Wm. Ramsden, Bt.
Scardingwell, Gapt. Hannan.
. of Tadcaster.
Huddleston, Sir Fr. Hnngate, Bt.
Grimston, Langdale Stanhope, Esq.
Benningborough, John Bouchier, Esq.
Distant view of the Red house, Sir Thos. Slingsby, Bt.
Nun Monkton Priory, Nath. Payne, Esq.
Hulton Banks ? Roundell, Esq.
Marston Hall, Edwd. Thompson, Esq.
Enaresborough.
Do. Con. (Castle), Fran. Trappes, Edq.
Nydd Hall, Hodges, Esq.
Colgrave Hall, Sir Thos. Tancred, Bt.
Brampton Hall.
N. P. Boroughbridge.
The Devil's Arrowes.
Newby Hall, Sir Wm. Robinson, Bt.
(? Pencil sketches of a recumbent knight on a tomb).
Altar lately found at Ilkley with an insc.
8. P. of Consborough Castle where Hengist the famous
Saxon General is said to have been killed.
Ravenfield, Thos. Weston, Esq.
Engraving of the Ichnography or Platform of the Cath:
Ch : of St. Peter's in York.
House on grey paper.
Farnley Hall, Abstrupus Danby, Esq.
Bedall Church, — Pencil.
Agness Burton, Sir Griff. Boynton, Bt.
S. P. Bedall.
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Vignettes 6 in a page of Towton Hall, nr. Tadcaater ;
Buines of Spofforth Manor ; Smawa Hill, nr. Tad-
caster; Oglethorp Hall, nr. Tadoaster; Plumpton
Tower ; Newton Kine. . .
Bowdon, Ellis, Esq. ; Wodsome, Kay, Bt. ; Rudston
Roman monuments ; Middllm St. George ; Farnhill?
Hall in Craven; Ld. Bingley; Kirby Overblow;
Galverley; Ellerbnrn; MalhamCave; The Chapel
nr. Knaresbro' cut out of the rock ; Mr. Studley's*
lodge nr. Ukley ; The ruins of Harewood Castle.
Double page— rS. Prospect of Yarm, Guisborough, from
the AJlom Bocks.
Osmotherley in Cleveland.
Stockesley Town at distance.
Buines of Seamer nr. Scarborough.
E. Duncomb Park, Tho. Duncomb, Esq.
N. Newborow, Ld. Visct. I'alcon(berg)
S. Bushton, Bobt. Bobinson, Esq.
S. Wyckham Abbey.
S. Ebberston Lodge, Wm. Thompson, Esq.
S. Brompton, Sir Ar. Caley, Bt.
Thornton, John Hill, Esq.
S. Welburn, Gibson, Esq.
N. Nunnington, Jno. Jackson, Esq.
Nunnington Hall, Ld. Visct. Preston.
W. Ness, Balph Crathorne, Esq.
Oswald Church, Wm. Moor, Esq.
S. Ganton, Sir Thos. Legard, Bt.
Thomas de Escrik, chaplain, by William de Hodelston his
attorney, complained of Robert atte Welle, of Ilkelay, Robert
del Ker, Walter son of Isolda, Bichard del Holyns, Thomas le
Maohoun, John Elyotson, Alan le Suur, Gilbert Pek, Roger le
Diker, Robert Hardy, Hugh Stevenson and Peter del Stede,
that they with force and arms had seized, imprisoned and ill-
treated the said Thomas de Escrik at Ilkelay, and had taken
and carried away his goods and chattels there found to the
value of £10.
• De Banoo Boll, Trin. 7 Edw. II, No. 86, [A.D. 1814.] m.
185 d.
Assize, 10 Edw. III. Skirack. Adam le Wod of Skibdon
was indicted for stealing fourteen shillings of silver from John
le Sotherne, on Bumbelesmore, near le Hyngandstan, on the
Saturday next after the feast of Holy Trinity in the 9th year
• Myddelton Lodge, at Stuhham, near Ukley.
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F the reign of our present King (1885). He pleaded not guilty
ad was aoquitted.
N )
Assise Boll, York 1 1, m. 3d.
27 j
These two notes are interesting for the early local names
hich they contain. In the first we may especially note " atte
Telle" and "del Holyns." The "well" is possibly the one
iown now-a-days as the " White well " ; and there seems no
ason to doubt that the "Holyns" here mentioned gave a
ime to "Holins"-hall, or Hollinghall. In the second note
is interesting to find mention of "le Hyngandstan," the
ime of which is still preserved in " Hangingstone Book."
W. Palsy Baildon.
Puritan Emigration. — I wish to inquire through the pages
' your valuable periodical whether any of its readers have
und in contemporary letters or documents, or in any book
•inted before 1650, any reference to the embarkation of Sir
atthew Boynton, a Yorkshire baronet; John Hampden,
liver Cromwell, Sir Arthur Hazelrig, and Sir William
Dnstable, or any of them, for New England. These are the
arsons concerning whom much has been written, who are
id to have gone on board ships in 1688, bound for New
ngland, but were prevented from proceeding on their voyage
r the Council who ordered a stay of the vessels. There is
idence of the stay of the vessels, but no contemporary proof
is, to my knowledge, been produced that any of these persons
3re in the vessels.
Cotton Mather, in his Magnalia (book 8, page 102), states
at the Bev. Ezekiel Bogers, of Bowley, in Yorkshire, was to
ive been accompanied in his emigration to New England by
x William Constable and Sir Matthew Boynton; and it is
ipposed that this clergyman was in London early in the year
which the ships were stayed by the Council, as in the calen-
ir of State papers, Colonial series, edited by Mr. Sainsbury,
>1. 1, page 268, under date of Feb. 15, 1688, reference is made
a proposition by the Court of Providence Island that " Mr*
tiaucy and Mr. Bogers be moved to divert their intended
>yages from New England to Providence."
I am acquainted with the common authorities on this
lestion, and twenty-four years ago collected the various
atements together and printed them in the New England
istorical and Genealogical Begister for April, 1866. I could
>t then find in any contemporary letters or documents, nor
any book printed near the time of the Order in Council, any
ention of the embarkation of any of the persons named, and,
352 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
in the almost quarter of a century that has elapsed since, I
have found none.
Boston, Mass, U.S.A. John Ward Dbax.
CENTENARIANS.
The newspapers of the past few weeks record the deaths of
three Yorkshire Centenarians. T., Jan. 1890.
Funeral of Mrs. Lanchester. — The remains of Mrs. Lan-
Chester, who was one of the Queen's oldest subjects, were
interred in Manfield Churchyard on the 3rd inst., in the pre-
sence of numerous relatives and some very old friends. The
deceased, who was in the 107th year of her age, was born at
G allow Hill, Yorkshire, on the 29th of May, 1788, and was
baptised at Bowes Church, near Barnard Castle. She breathed
her last at the home of her son, Mr. George Lanchester, at
West Auckland, on Tuesday, after some four or five days' ill-
ness. The late Mrs. Lanchester spent a large portion of a
happy and healthful life at the residence of Mrs. John Procter,
her daughter, and widow of the late Mr. John Procter, at
Hunton, a village situated in the centre of Richmondshire,
about equal distances from the three chief agricnltural towns
of Richmond, Leyburn, and Bedale. At hay -time and harvest
she for years walked to the farm and took a delight in assisting
her children and grand-children. This she continued to do
until a year or two ago. The eldest of her sons, who dwells in
Northumberland, did not get to the funeral, but her venerable
sons and daughters, Mr. Geo. Lanchester and Mrs. Procter, the
nine grand-children from Hunton, Catterick, Auckland, and
Jarrow, respectively, and a great-grand-daughter, Agnes,
daughter of Mrs. Johnson (formerly Miss Agnes Procter, of
Hunton) were present. Many people were accustomed to walk
or drive to Hunton specially to see the aged lady, whose
Shotograph formed a prominent feature in the recent In-
ustrial Exhibition at Richmond.
A woman named Ann Hunter, an inmate of the "Whitby
Union Workhouse, has just attained her 100th year. She is a
widow, her husband, who was also a pauper, having died a few
months ago, aged 90.
The death was announced on Saturday last, December 20th,
1889, of a man named John Turner, of 85, West street, Hull,
at the age of 104 years. Four years and a half ago, or within
six months of attaining his 100th birthday, he insured in the
Prudential Company, and his friends thereby became entitled
to the amount of his policy.
March 8, 1888, Mrs. Kilner celebrated her hundredth birth-
day at Mexborough.
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May, 1888, Mrs. English, Sheffield, attained her 101st year,
with hearing and eyesight excellent ; and in good health.
Jas. Hinchcliffe, elothier, Millshaw, near Leeds, died 1812,
aged 102. Annual Register, p. 188.
Ismay's Dluuks. — Particulars of the Rev. J. Ismay,of Mirfield,
part of whose diary was published in Y. N. S Q. for 1868, are
desired. Also further instalments. F. M. R.
Otley Pabish Registebs. — The first two volumes still pre-
served date from 1564 to 1698. These, the late Vicar (Rev. S.
R. Anderson,) transcribed in index form with a view to publica-
tion, and at my request offered them to the Yorkshire Archaeo-
logical Association, but nothing came of it. The transcript is
still kept in the vestry- Qf the remaining volumes, although
lately re-bound, two are in a confused state. The volume of
Bap., Marr., and Burials, 1694 to 1780, as those before and
after, contain entries of the Fairfax, Fawkes, Dyneley, and
other historic families. Garnett, Dade, Thackray, Stubbs,
Jennings, Glarkson, Barker, Curtis, Glapham, are of constant
repetition. The remaining vols., to 1800, are: —
(a) Baps. 1781-1758; Bur. 1781-1751 ; Marr. 1781-50.
(b) „ 1745-72; „ 1745-72; „ 1747-54.
(c) „ 1772-1812; „ 1772-1812.
(d) „ 1758-60, 1772-88 ; Bur. 1678-92, 1752-60, 1772-83.
(e) Marr. 1754-1776. [Marr. 1750-4.
(f ) „ 1776-17&4. This book is in printed form, as re-
quired by law, and was printed at York, in Pavement, but no
printer's name is given.
(g) Marr. 1794-1809.
A list of the trades recorded would be interesting ; I noticed
paper-makers and dish-throwers in 1723. Solomon Swale, of
Esholt, was cloth-maker in 1725 ; what relation to Sir Solomon ?
Christopher Saxton, labourer, and others of that name resided
at Bramhope in 1728. He was buried April 12, 1746. The
usual penalties were paid for not burying in woollen, Thomas
Pullain, of Burley, gent., May 26, 1709.
Jeremy Collier, of Esholt, buried by leave at Guiseley, paid
the fee at Otley, 4s. 6d., 28 March, 1787.
There are similar entries respecting burials at neighbouring
churches and chapels.
Clarksons, of Bramhope, frequent. Wm. s. Thos. C. of B. bap.
1696.
Wm. s. Wm. Logan, a dragoon, Otley, bap. 28 Jan. 1711,
[bur. 1715.
Is this the Halifax Centenarian soldier ? see gravestone near
south door, Hx. Ch.
Gervase Margerison= Sarah Lupton, spinster, 8 Oct. 1787.
254 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES, '
James Margerison, husbandman = Susanna Heaton, spinster,
24 May, 1785.
Lister Cunliffe, Ilkley, gent. = Ann Gill, widow, by licence,
6 May, 1772. Witnesses— John Margerison, John Boiling.
Edwd. Collyer, Otley = Mary Riley, spinster, 22 Nov. 1778.
Edmund s. Edmund Jennings, Mens ton, bap. 1780, d. 1780.
Edmund Jennings = Margaret Turner, 1726.
Edmund Jennings = Anne Lamb, 21 Mch. 1786-7.
Jacob & Esau, sons of Edmund Jennings, Menston, bap.
July 1745.
Ellis Cunliffe, Ilkley, batchelor, and Elizabeth Lister of Otley
parish, spinster, married by licence, Oct. 22, 1788.
John, son of Geo. Trevylian, Esq., bap. Feb. 7, 1784.
Rev. Joshua Crowther, Vicar of Otley, buried Apr. 18, 1750.
Ann, dau. Rev. Mr. Thomas Hudson, schoolmaster of Free
School, Otley, bap. Sep. 10, 1781. She was buried May 24, 1782.
Thomas, his bon, bap. Sep. 8, 1788.
Many other Vicars, Curates, Schoolmasters and Gentry are
mentioned.
Mr. John Horsfield, excise officer, Otley, married Mary
Whitehead, of Otley, Nov. 1704. Their children were baptised
as follows : — Christopher, Jan. 6, 1705-6; Mary, 1708; Martha,
1712 ; Matthias, 1712-8. Mary, wife Mr. John Horsfield, Otley,
bur. 1716.
Timothy Horsfall, Bradford, married Sarah Garnett, of Otley,
August 8, 1785.
The plague was at Otley in 1604, and other entries in the
Registers refer to the great flood of 1678, (when nearly all the
bridges of the West Riding were destroyed or damaged,) to
erecting pews, and to the Fairfax family. Christopher Cave
had a licence to eat flesh during Lent, 1658. Thomas Cave
founded the Grammar School, on which was the fine punning
motto : Deo Pave, Tomo Cave. (Fear God; mind thy book)*
William Hudson, Vicar of Weston and Master of the Qtley
Grammar School, is mentioned 1676.
Mr. Hole, Curate of Guiseley, 1668 ; Mr. More, Curate of
Baildon and Coley, 1664 ; Mr. Jeremy Crosland, Curate of
Bramhope, 1668, are also noted.
florksljire Biahrt
As spoken in the North and East RidingB, together with
Stories illustrative of the Yorkshire Character.
Those who have made a study of the English Dialects, and
have listened attentively to them as they have been spoken,
cannot but have noticed that a considerable change has taken
place in the ordinary language of our country folk during the
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last twenty years. The North and East Ridings of Yorkshire
are no exception to the role. Railways and certificated school-
masters, despite their advantages, are making sad havoc of
much that is interesting and worth preserving in the mother
tongue of the people. This is to be regretted. It is with the
object of collecting any suck relics of the past, which would other-
wise be doomed to oblivion, that I make the following appeal
to my brother Yorkshiremen, many of whom, I know, must
have a sort of affection for the rich and powerful Dialects of
the Eastern half of the County. These sound like music in the
ears of many of us. I am well aware that much valuable work
has been already done in this direction, and that by more able
hands than mine. The English Dialect Society, under the
editorship of the Rev. W. W. Skeat, published, among others
of a similar kind, a copious glossary of words used in the
Whitby district, — a part of the county especially fertile in
dialectic lore : again, the Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect, by
the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, is a work full of learning and research ;
as any treatise of the kind would be from the pen. of that writer.
Scores of works, of greater or lesser note, have been written
from time to time with the like object, as may be seen from
Mr. Skeat' s bibliographical list of those published, or known to
exist in MS., illustrative of the Yorkshire Dialects, among
others. Still it is probable that the mine is not exhausted ;
and if, as Professor Max Miiller observes in his Lectures on
the Science of Language, "some of the local dialects of England,
as spoken at the present day, are of great importance for a
critical study of English," surely no stone should be left un-
turned for discovering any particles of precious ore which still
exist in out of the way places, and for thus rescuing what can
still be saved of our decaying dialect.
Not only, however, am I desirous of gathering together any
lingering traces of bygone wonky but also of collecting peculiar
Yorkshire phrases, sayings, modes of expression, and grammatical
usages. Far less has been written about these than about
mere dialectic vocabularies, and yet I think it will be admitted
that to a Yorkshireman, at all events, they possess a certain
interest. There are, I believe, still a vast number of such more
or less local peculiarities of expression which are worthy of
being preserved. To detect these peculiarities it often requires
somewhat close attention and a sensitive ear : many persons
would be surprised on being told that certain expressions were
peculiar to the districts in which they live. Let me give only
a few of the commonest examples of what I mean. In this part
of the country, for instance, a Yorkshireman would not say
" What do you think o/it?" but "to it ;" not "Wait till I come,"
but "while I come;" not "I saw him on Saturday," but "at
Saturday ; " not " I came by the train," but " with the train ; "
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not "It is good for nothing/' but "to nothing" (good ti nowt);
not " Of no use," but " to no use." Again, the following will
be familiar to all of us : " middlin," " nobbut middlin," " nobbut
varry middlin ;" " badly " = ill ; " quite better " = quite well
again; "very well " = very much. He does not say, "It is
impossible," but "There isn't such a thing;" not "What is
your name ?" but " What do they call you ?" not " Gome with
me part of the way," but " Set me a pieoe of way." " Obliged"
with us, is " forced ;" " begin," is " start ;" " make haste," is
44 be sharp;" "don't forget," is "think on;" "bread and cheese,"
is "cheese and bread ;" &c, &o. How expressive are such words
as "insense," "daft," "waffy," "cobby," "roopy," "closed
up," "fratch," "whisht," "uphod," "fend," " t'backend,"
" lowzin-tahm," " whemmle," " forelders," " degg," and many
more that might be named : but, perhaps, the few instanoes I
have given will suffice to make clear my meaning, and may
create an interest in the object I have in view.
But there is a further branch of enquiry whioh is worthy of
being pursued. It has been said that every other Yorkshireman
you meet is a character, and there is a great amount of truth in
the remark ; a healthy independence, originality, and sense of
humour meet one at every turn. Many are the Yorkshire
stories that can be related to illustrate such independence and
originality— stories which have never yet been placed on record.
Very grateful shall I be, then, to those of my brother Yorkshire-
men who will be good enough to furnish me with any such, together
with any dialectic peculiarities that come before their notice ;
and in the case of these latter, it will add greatly to their value
if the name of the district, or better still the exact place where
they are known to have been used, is mentioned. I feel sure
there is sufficient material of this kind to fill many a volume,
if only it could be collected. Whether it will ever be possible
for me to produce such a volume must depend mainly upon the
extent of the response which this circular meets with, and upon
the kind help which my friends may be willing to give me.
Mabmaduke G. F. Mobbis.
The Vicarage, Newton-on-Ouse, York,
May, 1889.
Shipley Dialect. — Dr. Joseph Wright, M.A., of Oxford, a
native of Thackley, is engaged on a Dialect Grammar and
Glossary of the Shipley speech, to be published by the English
Dialect Society. He will limit his district very strictly, for a
few miles removal in any direction lands us into quite different
peculiarities of speech.
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IHKortainortir in fgorhsfrir*.
By J. R. Tutin,
Compiler of the " Wordsworth Birthday Book,"
" The Bibliography of Wordsworth/' <&c.t Ac.
257
Kilnsey Crag.
" He had trudged through Yorkshire dales,
Among the rocks and winding soars ;
Where deep and low the hamlets lie
Beneath their little patch of sky
And little lot of stars. — Peter Bell, Part 1.
Messrs. Harrison, the printers hereof, we are indebted for the illus-
i to this article. ]
ias been truthfully observed by an eminent authority on
sworth* that no British poet (not even Sir Walter Scott,)
peculiarly associated with locality as is this great poet
ived nearly all his life among the lakes and mountains of
oaoreland and Cumberland. His own neighbourhood of
jakes is described in his works to a greater extent than
ither part of our Island ; yet we may affirm that some of
icenes of our own county (Yorkshire) have been the in-
tion of not a few of the poet's most characteristic and best
ances.
te object of this short article is not to impart any new
mation respecting Wordsworth's interpretation and des-
ion of Yorkshire scenes, but merely to bring together the
is (or portions of them) relating to places in our county,
a few short topographical, or other notes.
uring the last few days of last century, Wordsworth and
sister made the journey on foot from Sockburn-on-Tees to
smere. In the recently published Recluse f the poet refers
his journey in the following lines : —
Prof. Knight, LL.D., of St. Andrews. f London : Macmillan & Co.
.N.Q. B
J88 Y0RK8HIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8,
Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak,
When hitherward we journeyed Ride by side
Through bursts of sunshine, and through flying showers;
Paced the long vales — how long they were — and yet
How fast that length of way was left behind,
Wensley's rich vale, and Sedbergh's naked heights.
The frooty wind, as if to make amends
For its keen breath, was aiding to our steps,
And drove us onward like two ships at sea,
Or like two birds, companions in mid-air,
Parted and reunited by the blast.
Stern was the face of nature ; we rejoiced
In that stern countenance, for our souls thence drew
A feeling of their strength. The naked trees,
The icy brooks, as on we passed, appeared
To question us. " Whence come ye, to what end ? "
They seemed to say, " What would ye," said the shower,
" Wild wanderers, whither through my dark domain ? "
The sunbeam said, " Be happy."
On their way they passed Hart-leap Well, a small spring of
water on the road side, between Richmond and Askrigg. Near
to the spring he entered into conversation with a peasant, who
told him the tradition in connection with the spot ; and the
poem, " Hart-leap Well," was composed soon after his settle-
ment at Grasmere. I quote a few stanzas of the poem describ-
ing the scene as seen by the poet : —
" As I from Hawes to Richmond did repair,
It chanced that I saw standing in a dell
Three aspens at three corners of a square ;
And one, not four yards distant, near a well.
* * * *
I saw three pillars standing in a line —
The last stone pillar on a dark hill top.
* * * $
I looked upon the hill both far and near,
More doleful place did never eye survey ;
It seemed as if the Spring-time came not here,
And Nature here were willing to decay."
The prefatory note to the poem states that " its name is
derived from a remarkable Chase, the memory of which is pre-
served by the monuments spoken of in the second part of the
... poem, which monuments do now exist as I have there
described them."
In the summer of 1881, the writer visited this spot which ifl
situate about three-and-a-half miles from Richmond, on the
Askrigg road. The well is an object which may easily be
missed. Very near to it, on the same side of the road, is a
small tree ; on the opposite side the road is walled in, while
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this is open to the moor. The " three aspens at three comers
of a square " were gone, as well as the " three stone pillars
standing in a line " mentioned in the poem, but the " cup of
stone" was still there, and in all probability the same that
Wordsworth saw in 1799, as it was much worn, and appeared
to be of very long standing. The lines —
"It seemed as if the Spring-time came not here,
And Nature here were willing to decay,"
is an apt description : it being barren moor for miles around.
The journey of Wordsworth from Sockburn to Grasmere was
also the inspiration of one of the poet's most admirable prose
descriptions — a letter to Coleridge describing his journey. The
letter is printed in the Prose Works of the poet, in the memoirs
by the late Bishop of Lincoln, and in Knight's Life of Words-
worth. It is much too long to quote entire, but I give the
concluding portion of the description of the waterfall at
Hardraw Soar, in Wensleydale: — "The rocks on each side,
which, joining with the side of this cave, formed the vista of
the brook, were chequered with three diminutive waterfalls, or
rather courses of water. Each of these was a miniature of all
that summer and winter can produce of delicate beauty. The
rock in the centre of the falls, where the water was most
abundant, a deep black, the adjoining parts yellow, white,
purple, and dove colour, covered with water— plants of the
most vivid green, and hung with streaming icicles, that in some
places seem to conceal the verdure of the plants and the violet
and yellow variegation of the rocks ; and in some places render
the colours more brilliant. I cannot express to you the en-
chanting effect produced by this Arabian scene of colour as the
wind blew aside the great waterfall behind which we stood, and
alternately: hid and revealed each of these fairy cataracts in
irregular succession, or displayed them with various gradations
of distinctness as the intervening spray was thickened or dis-
persed. What a scene too, in summer ! In the luxury of our
imagination we could not help feeding upon the pleasure which
this cave, in the heat of a July noon, would spread through a
frame exquisitely sensible. That huge rock on the right, the
bank winding round on the left with all its living foliage, and
the breeze stealing up the valley, and bedewing the cavern with
the freshest imaginable spray. And then the murmur of the
water, ther quiet, the seclusion, and a long summer day."
On the 18th of July, 1802, Wordsworth and his sister crossed
the Hambleton Hills on their way to Gallow Hill, the home of
the Hutchinsons. Dorothy Wordsworth's journal supplies the
following note illustrative of this walk :
" On foot to the Hamilton Hills Bivaux. I went down
to look at the ruins : thrushes singing, cattle feeding amongst
the ruins of the Abbey ; green hillocks about the ruins ; these
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hillocks scattered over with grovelets of wild rosea, and covered
with wild flowers. I could have stayed in this solemn quiet
spot till evening, without a thought of moving, but W. was
waiting for me."
The sonnet commencing " Dark and more dark the shades
of evening fell/' was " composed after a journey across the
Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire," made on the 4th of October of
the same year as the previous journey. Wordsworth was
married to Mary Hutchinson on this day in the ohuroh of
Brompton, near Scarbro*. I quote the sonnet entire : —
"Dark and more dark the shades of evening fell;
The wished-for point was reached — but at an hour
When little could be gained from that rich dower
Of prospeot, whereof many thousands tell.
Yet did the glowing west with marvellous power
Salute us ; there stood Indian citadel,
Temple of Greece, and minster with its tower
Substantially expressed — a place for bell
Or clock to toll from ! Many a tempting isle
With groves that never were imagined, lay
'Mid seas how steadfast ! objects all for the eye
Of silent rapture ; but we felt the while
We should forget them ; they are of the sky,
And from our earthly memory fade away."
How graphically is the evening of that day brought home to
Ufl in the above sonnet ! . The following is also on the same
subject :—
* They are of the sky,
And from our earthly memory fade away.'
" Those words were uttered as in pensive mood
We turned, departing from that solemn sight :
A contrast and reproach to gross delight,
And life's unspiritual pleasures daily wooed 1
But now upon this thought I cannot brood ;
It is unstable as a dream of night ;
Nor will I praise a cloud, however bright ;
Disparaging man's gifts, and proper food.
Orove, isle, with every shape of sky-built dome,
Though clad in colours beautiful and pure,
Find in the heart of man no natural home :
The immortal mind craves objects that endure :
These cleave to it ; from these it cannot roam,
Nor they from it : their fellowship is secure."
I am not aware that Wordsworth ever visited Malham Cove,
or Gordale Scar, but his two sonnets on these places are most
realistic ; and though suggested by WestalTs views, we must
feel that the Poet has interpreted the scenes to us as truthfully
as if he had actually seen what he describes.
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MALHAM COVE.
Was the aim frustrated by force or guile,
When giants scooped from out the rocky ground,
Tier under tier, this semicirque profound ?
(Giants— the same who built in Erin's isle
That causeway with incomparable toil ! ) —
0, had this vast theatric structure wound
With finished sweep into a perfect round,
No mightier work had gained the plausive smile
Of all-beholding Phoebus ! But, alas,
Vain earth ! False world ! Foundations must be laid
In Heaven ; for, 'mid the wreck of is and was,
Things incomplete and purposes betrayed
Make sadder transits o'er thought's optic glass
Than noblest objects utterly decayed.
Gordale Scar.
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GORDALE.
At early dawn, or rather when the air
Glimmers with fading light, and shadowy Eve
Is busiest to confer and to bereave ;
Then, pensive Votary ! let thy feet repair
To Gordale chasm, terrific as the lair
Where the young lions couch ; for so, by leave
Of the propitious hour, thou may'st perceive
The local Deity, with oozy hair
And mineral crown, beside his jagged urn,
Recumbent : Him thou may'st behold, who hides
His lineaments by day, yet there presides,
Teaching the docile waters how to turn,
Or (if need be) impediment to spurn,
And force their passage to the salt sea tides 1
Lucy Gray ; or, Solitude — one of the best and most popular of
Wordsworth's shorter pieces — was founded on a circumstance
told to the Poet by his sister, of a little girl, who, not far from
Halifax in Yorkshire, was lost as described in the poe,m. A
contributor to Notes and Queries believes that the Mill-weir at
Sterne Mill Bridge, near Halifax, was the scene of Lucy Gray's
death. It is not improbable that the event occurred near to
the place referred to, but I cannot wholly accept the supposition
of the contributor to Xotes and Queries. For one reason: Sterne
Mill Bridge crosses the River Galder, whereas, we are informed
by Wordsworth, in his note to the poem, that the accident
occurred in crossing ' the lock of a canal.* The Galder runs
parallel with the canal near Sterne Mill Bridge, and it may be
that the circumstance occurred not far from this scene. There
are several clues in the poem to the scene, which would lead as
to the belief that Lucy Gray lost her life very near to the place
referred to by the writer in Notes and Queries.
In the Effusion, in the Pleasure-ground on thr Banks of the Bran
near Dunkeld (one of the " Memorials of a Tour in Scotland,
1814,") there is a full description of the image which is carved
in the rock near the door to St. Robert's Chapel at Knaresbro'
— a cell cut out of the solid rock, situate on the east bank of
the River Nidd, very near to the bridge crossing the river. The
following are the lines referred to, and not long ago the writer
took the trouble to verify their accuracy as a description of the
actual object and scene : —
The Effigies of a Valiant Wight
I once beheld, a Templar Knight ;
Not prostrate, not like these that rest
On tombs, with palms together prest,
But sculptured out of living stone,
And standing upright and alone,
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Both bands with rival energy
Employed in setting his sword free
From its dull sheath — stern sentinel
Intent to guard St. Robert's cell ;
As if with memory of the affray
Far distant, when, as legends say,
The Monks of Fountains thronged to force
From its dear home the Hermit's corse,
That in their keeping it might lie,
To crown their abbey's sanctity.
So had they rushed into the grot
Of sense despised, a world forgot,
And torn him from his loved retreat,
Where altar-stone and rock-hewn seat
Still hint that quiet best is found,
Even by the Living, underground ;
But a bold Knight, the selfish aim
Defeating, put the Monks to shame,
There where you see his Image stand
Bare to the sky, with threatening brand
Which lingering Nidd is proud to show
Reflected in the pool below.
The most considerable production of Wordsworth associated
ith a portion of our county is The White Doe of Byhtone ; or,
ie Fate of the Norton*. The " Advertisement " to the Poem is
3 follows : —
" During the summer of 1807, 1 visited, for the first time, the
eautiful country that surrounds Bolton Priory, in Yorkshire ;
ad the Poem of the White Doe, founded upon a tradition con-
ected with that place, was composed at the close of the same
Bar."
Bolton Priory.
264
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
It is outside the scope of this article to narrate the story of
"The White Doe." I confine myself to the topographical
allusions which it contains. The opening of the first canto is
beautifully descriptive of " Bolton's mouldering Priory" and its
surroundings. The " Prior's Oak " referred to in Canto I. was
felled about the year 1720, and whereabouts it stood is not now
blown. The Historian of Craven informs us that " it stood at
a small distance from the great gateway. " This " great gate-
way " to the Abbey was through a part of Bolton Hall (now
inhabited) under the Tower.
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Bolton Hall.
Bolton Abbey :— " The Chapel, like a wild bird's nest."
The " Chapel, like a wild bird's nest," is the Nave of the
!hurch. The "vault," where, according to tradition, the
Bolton Abbey— East Window.
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
" Claphams and Mauleverers " were " buried upright/' is at the
East end of the North aisle of the Church.
11 The shy recess
Of Barden'8 lowly quietness/*
is an apt description of the quiet seclusion of Barden Tower,
which is beautifully situ-
ated on the west bank of
the Wharfe about three
miles from Bolton Priory.
Of "Rylstone HalTrthere
are scarcely any remains;
and of " Norton Tower"
there are left a few [roof-
less walls. Its position
and surroundings are
thus described by the
Poet:—
Barden Tower.
High on a point of rugged ground
Among the wastes of Rylstone Fell,
Above the loftiest ridge or mound
Where foresters or shepherds dwell,
An edifice of warlike frame
Stands single — Norton Tower its name —
Barden Tower.
It fronts all quarters, and looks round
O'er path and road, and plain and dell,
Dark moor, and gleam of pool and stream
Upon a prospect without bound.
The writer has not visited " lurking Dernbrook's pathless
side," situate "in the deep fork of Amerdale," and Words-
worth's allusions to this place are but slight and incidental
The " Amerdale " of the time of the poem (1569) is now called
Littondale, a branch of Wharfedale with the Skirfare running
through it.
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267
Associated too, with this part of our county is the poem— The
Force of Prayer; or, TJie Founding of Bolton Priory. The Strid
is very aptly described as
" that fearful chasm,
How tempting to bestride !
For lordly Wharfe is there pent in
With rocks on either side."
I have now completed
my pleasant task of in-
troducing to the reader
most of Wordsworth's ,
descriptions of York- \
shire scenes ; and which .
I trust may in some i
degree help those who !
are familiar with York-
shire to realize to their
* inward eye ' that which
they have before seen Qttid.
with their outward eyes of the beauties of our own county.
Tituimt fUlics: British and Koman.
Mr. Wardell, in August, 1852, found the rude flint arrow
head depicted (1), in a barrow at Rookdale, in Winteringham,
on the Western slope of the Wolds, East Biding. The barrow
measured about twenty yards in diameter, but was only four
feet above the surface of the ground. At a depth of two feet,
beneath a number of large stones, were eighteen skeletons, of
people of various ages, in different positions, but the majority
were placed with the head towards the north and the knees
drawn up towards the chin, after the most primitive mode of
burial. No urns were found, nor signs of cremation. In July,
1858, he opened an adjoining barrow, 400 yards northwards.
It was about the same diameter, and almost level with the
ground. A few bones of an adult and infant were found. Two
flint arrow heads of the rudest description were found, (2), (4),
a flint fragment of arrow head, (8), and a flint with serrated
edge (5), perhaps fragment of a saw. The drawings are full size.
Two yards eastward a small ornamented urn (15) was found,
4£ inches high, 5 inches diameter at the top.
In 1852, a villager of Sproatley, near Hornsea, while digging
in a garden about 800 yards south of the church, turned up
twenty-six bronze celts, and the remains of an oaken box, at
about two feet depth. Mr. Wardell obtained three of the best,
one of which is represented by woodcut ^6).
Arrow Head, Winteringham, (1.)
Flint, Winteringham, (8.)
Arrow Head, Winteringham, (*.)
Arrow Head, Winteringham, (4.)
Flint, Winteringham, (5.)
Celt, Sproatley, (6.)
Bronze Celt, Hnnslet, (7.)
Bronze Celt, Morley, (8.)
Bronze Celt, Hnnalet, (9.)
Bronze Celt, Hnnalet, (10.)
Bone Spear, SHpeea, (11.)
Stone Hammer, Chapeltown, (12.)
Roman Altar,]Roundhay, (14.)
Urn, WinteriDgkam, (15.)
270
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
.' In May, 1881, a labourer repairing a footpath in a field ad-
joining Hunslet Moor, at two feet deep, came upon nine bronze
celts from 6 to 7£ inches long. See woodcuts (7), (9), (10).
Bronze celts have been found at Morley, of which (8) is a
specimen. It is seven inches long, and was in Mr. WardeH's
collection.
No. 11 represents a bone spear found at Skipsea, in the cliff,
where remains of red and fallow deer are also found. It was
described by Poulson.
At Chapel town, Leeds, a stone hammer head (12) was dis-
covered in February, 1879, whilst a drain was being made. It
measures 8$ inches in length, 2| inches in depth, and weighs
SJlbs.
No. 18 represents a fine red Samian bowl, now in the York
Museum, but formerly in Mr. Wardell's possession. It was
found in 1841 at Clifton, near York, and when found shewed
it had been damaged in Roman times, but was so prized as to
have been repaired and jointed with pieces of lead. It measures
8£ inches in diameter at the top, and 4} inches deep. The
potter's mark is DIAIX. The designs embossed on the sides
are thought to represent Minerva bearing a shield, Diana
playing with a fawn, &c.
Iji May, 1881, a Roman altar (14) was found in front of
Elmete Hall, near Leeds, twenty-six inches high, nine inches
broad.
No. 16 represents a pot vessel found in April, 1881, when
excavating for the large reservoir at Fewston. It is thought to
have been so late as Norman workmanship. It is eleven inches
high, and is partly green glazed, and comparatively rude.
This bronze spear head was found in May, 1846, when the
railway was being made at
Churwell, and is 10} inches in
length.
Spear head, Churwell.
At Lingwell Gate, in Roth-
well, Soman Coin mouldB,
funnels and crucibles have
been frequently discovered.
The last find was in 1880,
one of the articles being a
baked-clay funnel, 2J inches
long, with two moulds still
adhering to it.
Roman Coining FnnneL
^
f
s
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. Bey. Bichabd Vickebman Taylor, B.A. — Mr. Taylor is the
eldest sou of Mr. John Taylor, of Leeds, and Ann, his wife,
daughter of Mr. Bichard Yickerman, of Leeds, and formerly-
of Haddersfield. He was born at Leeds, October 10, 1880, and
when about six years of age he hurt his knee by a fall, which
rendered him partially lame for life. He was a pupil at Leeds
Grammar School for nearly eight years, and in 1851, after a
few months services as assistant teacher with the Bev. A.
Ibbotson, of Bawdon, he became assistant master in the Leeds
Grammar School, but removed in 1854 to the Classical and
Commercial School, Queen's Square, Leeds, under Mr. Bichard
Hiley, the author of several educational works. In 1855 he
served in schools at Bristol and London, and passed the London
Matriculation in the first class. In 1856, he was Classical
Master at Bramham College, under the Bev. Dr. B. B. Haigh,
and in 1858, at Wesley College, Sheffield, under the Bev. Dr.
Waddy, and Dr. Shera. In 1859, he passed the B.A. examina-
tion, London University. In 1861, he became Classical Tutor
at Bipponden College, under Mr. Dove, and stayed over two
years. In 1860 he married, at Bothwell Church, Caroline,
daughter of David and Elizabeth Franks, of Holbeck. In 1868
he was ordained deacon, and became curate of St. Barnabas',
Holbeck. In 1865, he was licensed to the curacy of Wortley,
near Leeds, removing in 1867 to become curate of Alford-cum
Bigsby, Lincolnshire, in Oct. 1869, to become curate of Bright
side-cum-Grimesthorpe, in 1871 that of All Saints*, Sheffield,
In 1878, he was curate-in-charge of Edlington,near Botherham,
and had also private pupils. In Jan. 1878, he became incuin
bent of Melbecks, near Bichmond, Yorkshire, where he still
resides. His first wife died in August, 1888, leaving a son and
a daughter. In Nov. 1889, he married Miss Knowles, of Gorton
Lodge, Swaledale. He is a Fellow of the Boyal Historical
Society; a member of the Yorkshire Archaeological Association,
&c. We conclude this brief notice by giving a list of his publi-
cations, and by saying that he is like an " index to everything
in Yorkshire." Mr. Taylor's works are : —
Biographia Leodiensis, 1865, 544 pages, Cr. 8vo.
Supplement to the Ijeeds Worthies, 1867, 164 pages.
Church Endowments. A lecture pamphlet.
EccUdm Leodienses.
Yorkshire Anecdotes, 2 vols., 1888, 1887.
Numerous articles in the Warmsivorth mid Edlington Parish
Magazine, the Melbeclcs Parish Magazine, the Leeds Mercury
Supplement, the YorksJure Notes and Queries, YorksJure Post,
Scholastic World, Richmond Herald, Biograph, Old Yorkshire,
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, &c, &c. From these we
expect several more handy volumes, and also " Yorkshire," in
two vols., for Mr. Stock's County History Series.
272
YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Bev. Sabine Baring Gould. — Mr. Gould had for some yean a
curacy in the West Biding, and has also by his two volumes—
"Yorkshire Oddities," (a work that has reached three or four
editions), further strengthened his claim to be portrayed
in our gallery of Yorkshire Authors. Of his other numerous
and popular works we cannot now even give a bare list.
■
Bradford Market Gross. — To our series of old crosses, we
are pleased to add an engraving of the ancient Bradford Market
Cross, by favour of Mr. Bcruton. After serving for many
centuries as a conspicuous land mark in Bradford, it has been
removed to Peel Park, but we would suggest that a board, or
inscription should be added to identify it.
Doncaster Mayors. — In Miller's History of Doncaster (p.
167) there is a List of all the Mayors of that Town, beginning
with Thomas Pigborne, Mayor in 1498. The following names
have been met with in charters, deeds, or wills, and may be
prefixed to Miller's list. 1416, April 5, Richard Litster.
1454, Oct. 1, Thomas Phiiipson. 1455, Sept. 80, Robert
Adamson. 1456, Oct. 5, John Leeston. 1457, Oct. 7, Thomas
Garford. 1464, May 12, Christopher Friokley. 1481, Aug.
81, Thomas Vause. 3. 8., D.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 278
Communicated by 6. W. Marshall, Esq., LL.D., Rouge Croix.
[We regret to say that owing to our having omitted sending
Dr. Marshall a proof of this Register a very considerable
number of errors occur in it. The most important of them he
has corrected in the following errata, having compared the
printed sheets with the original MS.]
„ T . ERRATA.
Page. Line.
209 1.— For ' Weathehill • read « Wetherill/
„ 10.— For « August * read 4 October.*
„ 20.— To ' 1st day of " add ' 9*'*
„ 28. — For ' Lacock ' read « Lay cock.'
210 6. — For ' Hodgson ' read ' Dodgson.'
„ 8. — After line 8 insert : Rich'd ye son of Tho. Stringer
of York, Bapt'd 8br ye 27, 1680.
Joseph ye son of Rob't Howdell of Sherburn, Mrch
29th 1678.
„ 21. — For ' Lewerton ' read « Leverton/
211 28.— For ' 1688 ' read ' 1688.'
„ 24.— For ' 1697 ' read « 1698/
„ 48. — For ' Bawden ' read ' Rawden/
.212 88.— For ' Alberford ' read ' Abbaford/
,, 40. — For ' Ghamberlane ' read * Chamberlaine.'
„ 46.— For « Barstow ' read 4 Barston/
218 15.— For ' Fourth ' read « Tenth/
„ 80.— For ' 1704 * read « 1706/
„ 88.— For ' Seniors ' read ' Senior.'
„ 84.— Insert ' 17 ' after July.
„ 85.— For * Coulton ' read « Colton/
214 16.— Read « Mephibosheth/
„ 28.— Read ' Lumly/
215 8.— For ' Wilborth ' read « Milborth/
„ 14.— For * 1716 • read « 1715/
,, 29. — Read ' Herlegrave/
„ 47.— After ' June ' add 21.
216 2.— For « 1720 ' read ' 1728/
„ 12.— For ' Hayes ' read ' Hays/
„ 29.— For ' 1785 ' read * 1785/
„ 86.— For ' Sheppherd ' read * Shepperd/
217 10.— For ' May ye 1 ' read ' May ye 8th/
„ 11.— Dele the e in Newthorpe and add "was baptized
July 16th, 1727."
„ 18.— For ' Thackra ' read « Thackera/
„ 16.— For ' 20th ' read < 26th/
„ 85.— For ' 20th ' read « 26th/
T.N.Q. S
274 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
218 — After line two insert : ' George son of Silcock in ye
Parish of St. Michael's York was baptized May
28th 1783. Admitted Sept. 8th 1742.'
„ 28.— For « 1786 ' read < 1789/
„ 42.— For « 1741 ' read < 1748.'
219 2.— After ' February 28 ' insert * 1740/
„ 82.— For < 1752 ' read ' 1758.'
„ 86.— For ' 1752 ' read ' 1758/
220 1.— After ' June 28 • insert ' 1748/
221 4.— For « 11 " read « 18/
„ 9.— For * Cruse ' read ' Crux.'
„ 18.— For ' Baptiz'd 26 ' read « Baptiz'd April 26/
„ 15.— For ' 20 • read ' 28/
„ 17.— For < 1762 * read ' 1752/
„ 24.— For « Middlebrook ' read « Middlewood/
222 — Eighth line from foot, for « Goft ' read « Goff/
224 — Fourteenth line from foot, for ♦Calvert' read
« Colbert/
Continued from page 224.
Benjamin Connel of Micklefield, an Orphan by the Death of
his Father, born 18th April 1779, was admitted Oct. 28th,
1786.
Matthew Smith of Barkston, was bap. March 26th, 1778,
admitted Ap. 25th, 1787.
William Mellard of Haele was bap. July 4th, 1779, as appears
by the Register of Wragby, was admitted Nov. 25th, 1787.
George, 2nd Son of John Thirkill of Sherburn, Born Oct. 11th
Bap. Dec. 11th, 1780. Admitted 80 March, 1789.
Bobt. Richardson of Saxton, Aged about 9 years and an half.
Admitted the 10th of May, 1790.
Joseph Gilliam of Saxton, Born 5th May 1782. Admitted May
11th, 1790.
John Palmer of Milford, an Orphan by the death of his Mother,
born 15th of August 1781, was admitted the 80th day of
March 1791.
William Howcroft of Aberford, an Orphan by the death of his
Father, born June y* 9th 1788. Admitted 80th day of May
1791.
Mark, Son of Mark Ambler of Milford, born ye 1st of August
1788, was admitted ye 14th day of October 1751, (sic.)
John, Son of Thomas Foster of Sherburn, an orphan by y*
death of his Mother, born the 16th of March 1784, was
admitted the 14th Octr. 1791.
Thomas No well of Saxton, an Orphan by the death of his
Mother, born August the 2nd 1788, was admitted the 16th
April 1792.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 275
Henry Foster of Barwick, an Orphan by the death of his Father
born ye 24th May 1781, was admitted the 16th April, 1792.
John Chapman of Sherburn, an Orphan by the death of his
father, born 14th of Feby. 1785, was admitted 1st of October
1792.
George Nettleton of Saxton, a supposed Orphan, his Father
having run away and left his mother, about 8 Years of Age,
was admitted the 18th of Novr. 1792. Nettleton was born
12th of June 1784.
John Stephenson of Sherburn, born 28rd May 1785, admitted
the 4 of March 1794.
Samuel Brook of Newthorp, an Orphan born the 8rd of April
1785, admitted the 18 of March, 1794.
W. Mellard went out at Easter 1794.
G. Thirkle went out at Michaelmas 1795.
William, 2nd son of Wm. Goodall of Sherburn, Labr. Born
Friday 22nd of June, Bap. Thursday 5th of July 1788.
Admitted the 21st Jany, 1799.
George Silverwood, an Orphan by the Death of his Father,
born the 21st Novr. Baptd. the 25th of Deer. 1790. Admitted
the 21st Jany. 1799.
Wm. Goodall went out of the hospital the 3rd May 1808.
Joseph Fisher went out 25th July 1808. Remain as follow,
Joseph Robinson, gone out.
Geo. Silverwood, gone out.
Wm. Walker, gone out.
Edwd. York, gone out.
Thos. Roodhouse, gone out.
£. Capstick, gone out.
W. Vevers, gone out.
W. Walker, gone out.
W. Kettlewell,
J. Nat trass,
W. Gibson.
Wm. Gibson of Roth we 11, admitted 28 Sept. 1805.
George Purdon of Appleton, admitted 16 April 1806.
Charles Growcock of Kippax, aged 8 years was admitted 28
July 1806.
Thos. Hey wood of the Parish of Sherburn, aged 9 years, was
admitted 29 June 1807.
Henry Lodge admitted the 1st Octr. 1807. Aged 11 years.
The Balance drawn between John Dinnison late Master of ye
Hospital & John Clayton his successor. £ h. a.
Due to John Dinnison at Midsummer for keeping \ aP + « a
the Boys in Sherburn School £ „. d. ) b0 iy 4
Deduct for 6 weeks keeping 15 16 10 ) Q1 -_ A
Half-years Rent - - 15 18 6 j " ax I& 4
Balance £84 18 0
276 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
From whence it appears that tho' John Clayton entered to
ye Hospital at Old May-day 1766. Yet John Dinnison kept the
Boys' till Midsummer following.
Memorandum made May 31st 1782. That Joseph Brown a
poor Orphan in the School and Hospital at Sherburn was
turned out of the Hospital. This Boy was received again into
the School and Hospital the next day.
[Here follow several pages of accounts for school-books Ac.
bought for use of the boys.] .
Wm. & Thomas Hunter to read & write Jany. 20, 1788.
George Ellerton to write. Do.
Joseph Ellerton to read. Do.
Thos. Baines of York was admitted the 25 of July 1808,
Aged 9 years.
Wm. Lumb aged 11 Years was admitted 18 Sept. 1808.
Novr. 24th 1810. Wm. Lumb was expell'd for dishonesty, &c.
PART II.
1665.
Old Grammar School Book.
A. In Chancery. Between Sir James Scarlett, Ent. His
Majesty's Attorney General agt Richard Oliver Gascoigne and
others.
25th October 1881. At the execution of a Commission for
the examination of Witnesses in this Cause This Book mark'd
" A " was exhibited to us and shewn to the Rev*- Sam1- Wasse
and by him deposed unto at the time of his examination on the
part of the Informant.
Will-- Geo. Mataule.
Thos. Wm. Tottie.*
Thomas Knowles, Barkston, came to School 7th Peby. 1792. t
A Register of ye ffor ye Hospital at Shernboume.
1655.
Mathew Smith of Shernboume ye first of August.
John der of Barkestone ye first of May 1655.
Edward Waborne of Hamleton may-day 1655.
Joseph Oldfeild of Yorke ye first of August 1655.
Richard Apedale of Yorke ye ijth of Novembr 1655.
John Crosland of Sherebourne ye ijth of Novembr 1655.
Thomas Charleton of Yorke.
James Ellis of Yorke ye first of November 1656.
Cressy Hamond of Barkestone ye first of Novembr 1658.
Fran. Heptenstall of South Milforth ye first of Pebr. 165...
Willia1 Punder of Barkestone aboute ye 10th of March a moneth /
or... before his time being may-day 1657 or 8.
Tho. Smith of Shernburne on May-day 1658.
♦This sentence is written inside the cover of the Register, t on FJy leaf.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 277
Brian Crosland buried on May-day or ye evening before 1658.
Anthony Hnrtley buried ye 7th of May 1658.
Willia' Mason ye ijth of November ye yeare 1657.
James Tasker ye ij^ of November 1657.
Stephen Hewitson ye eleaventh of November 1657.
John Wilson Buried the j** day of January 1658.
Thomas Leigh Buried the ij* day of Aprill 1659.
Thomas Headley Buried the 18 day of May 1659.*
Thomas Osburne went out the 14 day of november 1659.
John Ellis of Micklefeild buried the 2 day of July 1660.
William Osburne went out the 12th day of november 1660.
William Hague went out the 12th day of november 1660.
John Nelson went out at Lamas 1661.
John Booth went out at Martinmas 1661.
John Stevenson went out at Martinmas 1661.
John Tasker went out at Candlemas 1661.
William Flint went out May-day 1662.
John Wolger(?) went out at Candlemass 1662.
Will'm Ewerby Buried the 18th of August 1668.
Nehemiah Imson went out at Lamas 1668.
Tho. Oreggs went out at Lamas 1668.
John Richardson went out at Martinmas 1668.
Thomas Morit went out at Lammas 1664.
Robert Dawson went out at Candlemas 1664.
William Armstronge went out at Martinmas 1665.
Thomas Hagur went out at Martinmas 1665.
Christopher Taplow went out at Martinmas 1665.
James Smith went out at Candlemas 1665.
John Shaw went out at Lammas 1666.
Edward Powl went out at Lam'as 1666.
James Stuthard dyed at York 10*** 19 1666.
Nicholas Dawson went out at Martinmas 1666.
Robert Benson went out at Martinmas 1666.
Richard Pearson buried 27 of January 1666.
Joseph Lee buried 12 of February 1666.
Marmaduke Fenton went out the 1 of May 1667.
William Johnson of Sandhutton went out at Lamas 166[7].
William Taylor buried the 14 of September 1667.
Edward Nicholson of Sandhutton buried the 8th of October
1667.
Robert Ellnison went out at Martinmas 1667.
Samuel Musgrave of Yorke went out at Martinmas [1667]
Thomas Barker of Sherburne went out ye 1st of May 1668.
John Shithard of Sherburne went out ye 1st of May 1668.
John Brooke of Sherburne dyed ye 18 day of May 1668.
Thomas Roe of Yorke dyed ye 22nd of January 1668.
•It appears from a memorandum in another part of the book that he "died
the 13th day of May about four a clock in the morning."
278 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
William Powle dyed ye 17 of March 1669.
William Hast of Saxton went out ye 1st of May 1670.
Matthew Gilliam of Saxton went out ye 1st of May 1670.
Anthony Summer of Sherburne went out at Lamas 1670.
Roger Barker of Sherburne went out .... 1670.
Robert ? Hope of Barkeston went out at Martinas • . .
William Jolmson of Yorke went out ....
Bottom of fol. la.
Commencement of fol. 2a.
James Webster of Yorke went out at Candlemas 1670.
Edward Lee of Yorke went out at Candlemas 1670.
Thomas Dawson of Saxton went out at May-Day 1671.
John Lister of Barkeston went out at Martinmas 1671.
Robert Wray of Saxton went out at Martinmas 1671.
William Linch of Sherburn went out at Martinmas 1671.
Thomas Beilby of York dyed ye 16 of January 1671.
Christopher Law of Yorke went out ye 1st of May 1672.
William Ibyson of Sherburne was buryed ye 15 of July 1672.
Arthur Scowfield of Yorke went out ye first of August 1672.
Thomas Foster of Yorke went out at Martinmas 1672.
Robert Johnson of Sandhutton act Mayday 1679
Matthew Haye of York went out to be a soldier about Whit-
sundie 1678.
Thomas Hayes of Sherburne went out at Lammas 1673.
John Allison of Saxton went out at Candlemas 1678.
Thomas Oliver of York died ye 24th of April 1674.
Thomas Hembrough of Yorke went out at May 1674.
Matthew Baker of Sherburne went out at Lammas 1674.
Anthony Wray of Saxton went out at Lammas 1674.
Edward Pearson of Saxton went out at Lammas 1674.
John Beckwith of Yorke went out at Candlemas 1674.
Simon Linch of Sherburne went out at Martinmas 1675.
Rodger Patison of Sandhutton went out at Candlemas 1675.
Robert Ibyson of Sherburne was buried ye 5 of October 1675.
Thomas Raper of Sherburne was buried ye 7th of Decern: 1675.
George Allinson of Saxton went out at May-day 1677.
Jeremiah Busfeild of Yorke went out at Martinmas 1677.
Laurence Wetherill of Sherburne went out at Candlemas 1677.
Richard Sissons of Yorke went out at May-day 1678.
Thomas Avisson of Sandhutton went out at May-day 1678.
Benjamin Brooke died the tenth day of May 1678.
Will : Burland of Sherburne died the tenth day of April 1678.
Thomas Jackson of Yorke went out at Lammas 1678.
John Mountain of Yorke went out at Lammas 1678.
William Johnson of York went out at Candlemas 1678.
John Simpson of Yorke went out at Candlemas 1678.
Richard Allison of Saxton went out at May-day 1679.
WITH YOEKSHIBE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 279
John Hardystie of Yorke went out at May-day 1679.
John Barker of Sherburne went out at May-day 1679.
Edward Wetherell of Sherburne went out at Lammas 1679.
John Parthridge of Yorke died ye tenth day of January 1678.
Benjamin Manklin of Yorke went out at Martinmas 1679.
John Calvert of Sherburne went out at Candlemas 1679.
John Pattison of Sandhutton went out at Candlemas 1679.
John Fairburn of Yorke went off at Martinmas 1687.
John Topham went off at May-day (ffor Camb.) 1688.
Thomas Squire of Sandhutton Dyed Aprill ye 5th a Blucoat
1688.
John Barnett of Sherbum went out at May-day 1688.
Mark Hurd of York went out at Martinmas 1688.
Thomas Loft of Saxton went out at Martinmas 1688.
Andrew Slater of Sherbum went out at May-day 1689.
Wm. Charter of Sherburn went out at May-day 1689.
John Wright of York went out at Lamas 1689.
Bich*- Stringer of York dyed at York Jany ye 12 1689
Len*- Battersbie of York went out at May -day 1690.
John Bewley of York went out at Martinmas 1690.
John Hall of Saxton went out at Martinmas 1690.
Bich** Pickering of Sherburn went out at May-day 1691.
Simon Bycroft of Sherburn went out at May-day 1691.
John Shaw of Sherburn went out at Midsummer 1691.
Thomas Hague of Sherburn went out at Lammas 1691.
Joseph Brown of Sherburn went out at Lammas 1691.
Henry Calvert of Sherburn went out at Lammas 1691.
Tho. Pierson of York went out at May-day 1692.
Bichd- Fletcher of Saxton went out at May-day 1692.
John Hesle of York went out at Martinmas 1692.
Stephen Wheatley of York went out at Martinmas 1692.
Wm. Dodgson of Sherburn dyed November ye 6th 16 [92].
End of fol. 2a.
1694.
Commencement of fol. 8a.
Joseph Howdell of Sherburn went out at May-day 169[8]
Joseph Herrington of York went out at Lamas 1698.
Benjamin Nickleson of Sherburn went out at Candlemas 1694.
Tho. Gilliam of Saxton dyed in Aprl. '94. &
George Howard (who had been 7 months abst. by reason
of sickness) re-entred
Mark Featon of Sherburn went out at May-day 1694.
James Dodgson of Sherburn dyed in June '94, & \m>qa
Thomas West of York supplyed his place j
Charls Sharpus of York went out at Lamas 1694.
George Dobson of Sherburn went out at Lamas 1694.
Josuah Dobson of Sherburn dyed in ffebruary & j ^qqa
Bob4- Dobson his brother succeeded him j
280 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
James Todd of York went out at Martinmas 1694.
Wm. Sykes of York went out at Martinmas 1695.
Rob*- Walker of York went out at Martinmas 1695.
Michael Otley of York went out at Martinmas 1696.
Franois Watson of York went out at Martinmas 1696.
George Howard of York went out at Martinmas 1696.
Henry Thirkel of Sherburn went out at Martinmas 1696. .
John Wkarldale of Sherburn went out at May-day 1697.
John Brown of Sherburn went out at Lamas 1697.
George Wheatley of York went out at Martinmas 1697.
Rich*- Pierson of York went out at Martinmas 1697.
Timothy Webster of York went out at May-day 1698.
Rich*- Jackson of York went out at May-day 1698.
Michael Duke of York went out Candlemas 169? (sic)
William Wheatley of York went out at May-day 1699.
Thomas Bolton of Sherburn went out at May-day 1699.
John Sadler of Sherburn went out at May-day 1699.
Francis Park of Sherburn went out at Martinmas 1699.
Jon- Harrison of Sand-hutton went out at Martinmas 1699.
John Cook of Sherburn died May ye 23d 1700.
Thomas Pullan of Sherburn died June ye 16th 1700.
Alvary Webster of York went out at Lamas 1700.
Henry Alderson of York went out at May-day 1701.
Richard Brusbie of York went out at May-day 1701.
Hugh Jewitt of Sherburn went out at Lamas 1701.
Henry Harrison of Sandhutton went out at Martinmas 1701.
John Casson of York went out at May*- 1708.
Jeremiah Wheatley of York went out at May* 1708.
Peter Allan of York went out at May-day 1708.
Charles Hillary of York went out at May** 1708.
John Benson of Sandhutton went out at May-day 1708.
Thomas Cruttenden of York went out at Candlemas 1708.
Benjamin Turner of York went out at Lady-day 1704.
Phillip Pierson of York went out at Lamas 1704.
William Foxon of York went out at Candlemas 1704.
Francis Cary of York went out at Candlemas 1704.
Wm. Harison of Sandhutton went out at Candlemas 1704.
Edw*- Turner of York went out at May-day 1706.
Sam11- Turpin of Sherburn went out at May-day 1706.
End of fol. So.
Commencement of fol. 4a.
Christopher Sanderson of York went out at Lamas 1706.
George Coupland of Sherburn went out at Lamas 1706.
Joseph Stephenson of Milforth went out at Lamas 1706.
William Charter of York went out at Martinmas 1706.
William Bentley of York went out at May-day 1707.
Cornelius Benson of Sandhutton went out at Mart. 1707.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 281
John Carlin of Milforth went out at Martinmas 1707.
Tho. Adcock Hutchisson of York went out at May-day 1708.
John Turpin of Sherburn went out at May-day 1708.
George Walker of York went out at May-day 1708.
John Hollinworth of Sherburn at Lamas 1708.
Rich*- Smith of York went out at Martinmas 1708.
Win. Clerk of Sandhutton went out at Martinmas 1708.
Tho. Jarvis of York went out at Candlemas 1708.
John Pollard of York went out at Lady-day 1709.
Rob** Anderson of York went out at May-day 1709.
Wm. Booth of York went off at Lamas 1709.
John Bond of Sherburn went off at Mart. 1709.
Joseph Stephenson of Sandhutton went of at May-day 1710.
Thomas Boswell of Sandhutton died March ye 5th 1710.
Thomas Hick of Abbaford went out at May-day 1711-
George Benson of Sandhutton went out at May-day 1711-
1712.
Jno. Chapman went out at May-day 1712.
Benj. Leak went out at May-day 1712.
Joseph Slater went out at Lamas 1712.
Hugh Walker went out at Mart. 1712.
1713.
Tho. Mint of York went out at May-day 1718.
Chr. Akrid of Sandhutton wfc- out at Mart:mass
1714.
Willm- Chamberlain went out at May-day 1714.
Jno. Matheror at May-day 1714.
Jno. Turpin at Martinmass 1714.
Will™- Brown at Martinmass 1714.
1716.
Thomas Mason of York went out at May-day.
Joseph Abbot of Sherbourn went out at May-day.
Richard Poole of Sherbourn went out at May-day.
John Standeaven of Sherbourn went out at Lamas.
Benjamin Smith of Sherbourn went out at Lammas-
Richard Gyll of Sherbourn went out at . . .
End of fol. 4a.
Commencement of fol. 46.
William Brook of Sherburn went out at Martinmass.
Thomas Brook of Sherburn dyed at Christmass.
Christopher Cave of Yorke went out at May-day.
1717.
Rob*- Hardy of York went out at May Day.
Christopher Cave of York went out at May Day.
Edward Wood of York drowned at York ye 16th of June.
Huggins of Saxton ran away at Christmas 1717.
Caesar Chamberlayne went out at Martinmas.
282 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
1718.
Tho : Abbot went out at May Day.
John Flint went out at May Day.
John Hammond went out at May Day.
John Gyll went out at Lammas.
1719.
Thomas Shepperd went out at May Day.
Thomas Butler went out at May Day.
1720.
Benjamin Whiteoat went out at May Day.
Arthur Cunningham went out at May Day.
Will. Fentiman went out at May Day.
Jno. Stainburn went out at May Day.
Tho. Bolton went out at May Day.
Jno. Mason went out at May Day.
Tho. Richardson went at May Day.
Tho. Cunningham died at Xmas.
1722.
Wm. Sheppard of Sand-hutton went out at May-Day.
John Terry of York went out at May-Day.
George Fentiman of Sherburn went out at May-Day.
John Smelt of York went out at Candlemas.
1723.
1724.
Elnathan Coulton of York went out at May-day.
William Stanidge of Sherburn went out at May-Day.
Christopher Richardson of York went out at Martinmass.
John Punder of Barkston went out at Martinmass.
1725.
John Burton of Sherburn went out at May Day.
Matthew Hall of Saxton went out at May Day.
John Holmes of York went out at May Day.
John Whitehead of York went out at Martinmas.
End of f oL 46.
Commencement of fol. 5a.
1726.
Thomas Chamberlayne went out at Midsummer to Cambridge.
Michael Goswel of York went out at Candlemas.
N.B.— He did not return to School after y« Xmas holidays so y* h«
may be said to hare left y« School abt 10th.
1727.
Thoinas Bonell of Sherburn went out at May-day.
John Brook of Sherburn went out at May-day.
Tho. Walker of Sherburn went out at May-day.
James Dobson of Sherburn went out at May-day.
Wm. Calverley of Sherburn went out at Martinmas.
1728.
Bichard Harrison of Sherburn went out at May-day.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 28S
1729.
John Richardson of York went out at May-day.
Thomas Dale of York went out at May-day
John Bonell of Sherburn went oat at May-day.
John Leaf (?) of Sherburn went out at May-day.
John Slater of Sherburn went out at Martinmas.
James Calverley of Sherburn went out at Candlemas.
1730.
John Whitfield of Saxton went out at May-day.
Wm. Whitfield of Saxton, run away from School July 18,
returned and submitted ye day following.
Wm. Brooks of York went out at Lammas.
James Barnes of Heck went out at Lammas.
Mark Conn of York went out at Martinmass.
John Paver of Milford went out at Martinmass.
1781.
Hannover Hill of York went out at May Day.
Wm. Speight of York went out at May Day.
Rowland Richardson of York went out at Lammas.
1732.
William Whitfield of Saxton went out at May Day.
John Barber of York went out at May Day.
John ye son of Will. Cooper of Sand-Hutton detained at Home
October ye ii**- N.B. — Had stayed half a year longer than
his time for want of a Certificate.
1733.
John Heslegrave of Saxton went out at May-day.
John Dobson of Sherburn went out at May-day.
John son of Matthew Sampson of Abbetford went out at
Martinmas.
1734.
John son of John Bannister of Sherburn went out at Lammas.
End of f ol. 6a.
Commencement of fol. 5b.
1735.
Charles son of James Barnes of Heck went out at May-day.
Tho : son of Tho : Wilkinson at Barkston went out at May-day.
William son of William Standen at York went out at Michael-
mas.
William son of John Brooks at York went out at Christmas.
1736.
William son of William Chamberlain of Shereburn went out at
May-day.
Christopher the son of Christopher Fothergill of Kippax went
out at May-day.
284 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Richard son of Rich** Herwood of York went out at Michaelmas.
Daniel the son of Daniel Walker of Towton in the pariah of
Saxton died in the Hospital the fourth of October.
John Tenant son of Charles Tenant of York went oat at Xtmas
Tho. son of Tho. Eliot of York went out at Christmas.
1737.
Matthias son of Rich*- Lidgley went out at Lammas.
Tho. son of Tho. Frear of York went out Aug. ye 80th.
John the son of John Hayes of York went out September ye 17th
1738.
David son of Christopher Fothergill of Kippax went out March
ye 29th.
Bam. son of Rob*- Hick of Abborford went out at Martinmass.
John son of John Mountain of Saxton went out at Christmass.
1739.
John son of Tho. Eliot of York went out at May-day.
Tho8- son of Tho. Nixon of York went out at Lady-day 1739.
End of fol. 56.
Commencement of fol. 6a.
Ananias son of Ananias Bottomley of York went out at Mid-
summer 1789.
William son of William Forster of Newthorp went out at
Michaelmas 1789.
1740.
Tho. son of John Houseman of Sherbarn went out at May-day
1740
John son John Foster of Saxton went out tft Candlemas 1740-1.
1741.
Lancelot son of Tho. Foster of Shereburn went out at May-day
1741.
Edwd- son of George Dolphin of York went out June ye 1st
1741.
Tho. son of Rio* Heaton of York died May 18th 1741.
John son of John Winterbourne of Newthorpe went at Lammas
1741.
Willm* son of John Smith in Se- Lawrence parish York went oat
out at Candlemas 1741-2.
John son of Jabez Manning of York went out at Candlemas
1741-2.
Will"- son of Will*- Joy of York went out at Candlemas 17412.
1742.
Henry son of John Ouseman of Shereburn went out the 1st of
March 1741-2.
John son of William Eland, Mariner, went out the 1st of March
1741-2.
William son of Silvan Austine, Weaver, went out at Midsummer
1742.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLKLORE JOURNAL. 285
John son of William Clough went out at Midsummer 1742.
William son of Rick*- Thackera went out at Midsummer 1742.
End of fol. 6a.
Commencement of fol. 66.
1743.
John ye son of George Dolphin of York went out Jan1?* ye 1st
1743.
Rob'* son of Mary Eccles of Towton went out at Candlemas
17428.
Will10- Bateman in ye Parish of X*'0 Xh York, went out at East?
1748.
John son of Rio** Horwood of York went out at Martinmass
1748.
1744.
George son of John Shipperd of Sherebum went out at Easter
1744.
John son of Joseph Calvert in ye parish of Saxton went out 6th
August 1745.
1745.
William son of Tho. Higgins of Saxton went out at Martinmas
1745.
1745-6.
William son of John Stephenson of Towton in the parish of
Saxton went out at Candlemas 1745-6.
1746.
Edward son of Edward Taylor of York went out at Candlemas
1746.
1746.
Christopher Randerson, son of John Randerson of Towton went
out at Christmas 1746.
1747.
Rob*- Smith son of Richard Smith of Milford went out tenth of
April 1747.
• 1747.
Charles son of Charles Kipling of York went out at Midsummer
1747.
John son of Wilfrid Rothwell of Batley went out the 17th of
July 1747.
John son of John Silcock of York went out the 22nd of August
1747.
George son of George Ledger of Ullerskelf went out the 4th of
March 1748.
John son of John Chambers of York went out at Midsummer
1748.
Tho. son of John Stephenson of Towton went out at Midsummer
1747.
286 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
George son of John Silcock of York went oat the 28th of Not-
ember 1748.
James son of John Driffield Sadler in York died May the 1st,
1749.
Tho. son of Tho. Hope of Shereburn went away Decern* the
10 1748.
[ Josjeph of Joseph Calvert of Saxton went away May 10th 1749.
End of f ol. 66.
Commencement of fol. la.
Anthony son of Anthony Dunnel of Kippax went out Septem-
ber 18th 1749.
John son of John Killingworth of Whitley in the parish of
Kellington went on November the 80th 1749.
Francis son of John Sharp of Shipton in ye parish of Overton
went out December the 9th 1749.
Benjamin son of Edward Smith of Cliff went oat Feby. the 18th
1749.
Tho. son of George Ledger of Ullerskelf labourer went oat the
12th of March 1749.
Bichard son of Tho. Massey of York went oat the 24th of
March 1749.
John son of John Moor of York went away abruptly the 10th
of April 1750.
William son of Rob* Fowler of Lumly went out April the 1st
1750.
Rich** & Rob*- sons of William Simpson of Barkstone went out
July the 1st 1751.
John son of John Field of Newthorp went out Jan1* the 8th
1752.
William son of John Flemming of York west oat at Candlemas
1752.
David son of William Tuke of York went out February 22nd
1762.
William son of Samuel Clark of York went out May 21st 1752.
John son of Wm. Biscomb of Saxton went out April 9th 1758.
John son of John Roebuck of York went out at Lady-Day 1758.
Tho. son of Francis Thirkel of Shereburn went out at May-Day
1758.
Joseph son of William Williamson of York went out at May-Day
1758.
Rob*- son of Henry Ovington of Bilton went out at Candlemas
1754.
William son of Tho. Sharp of Saxton went out at Lady-Day
1754.
Job son of William Shields of York went out at X*mas, 1754.
Rob*- son of Rob*- Flowet of Abberford went out June 1st 1755.
Tho. son of Ric*- Thompson of Shereburn went out Aug*- 1st
1766, End of fol. 7«.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 287
Commencement of fol. 7b.
John son of John Smith of Saxton went Aug. 28th 1755.
Tho8- son of Tho«- Oldridge went out May the 28th, 1756, the
Reason why he's plac'd here went away June the 24 1755,
he was admitted again.
Jno. son of Wm. Woodhouse of Bishophill, York, went out
Aug* 18th 1755.
*WUUam son of Edward Smith of York went out December 80th
1755.
Norfolk son of Francis Jackson of York went out December 80th
1755.
William son of Robert Clayton of Sherburn, went out May the
20th 1756.
John son of Thomas Wood of Sherburn went out June the 28rd,
1756.
George son of George Stephenson of South Millford run away
Sept. ye 18th, 1756.
1788.
John Baker Jan 25.
Geo. Thompson - 25.
— Middleton May 26.
Rest of half of fol. 76 blank. The whole of fol. 8a is blank.
Commencement of fol. 86. The entries above over again in origl.
John son of David Benson of York went out April the 6th 1757.
John son of William Bolton of York went out July ye 19th
1757.
William son of William Smith of York went out August the 2nd
1757.
John son of Jno. Bolton of Sherburn went out October the 10th
1757.
John son of Sam61* Walker of St. John's Micklegate York went
out Octte- 28rd 1757.
Henry son of William Biscomb of Saxton went out Feb1*- the
12th 1758.
John son of William Buley of York went out March the 18th
1758.
Abraham son of John Smales of York went out May the 18th
1758.
Stephen son of John Gill of Sherburn went out June 22nd 1758.
William son of Tho. Hope of Sherburn went out August the
10th 1758.
Thos. son of Paul Winterburn of All Ste- York went out August
the 14th 1758.
Thos. son of Thos. Summers Buried March 28th 1759.
George son of Sam1* Hogg of York went out November 29th
1759.
* These words have been erased.
288 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
John son of Wm. Ryther of South Millford went out May 14th
1760.
George son of William Biscomb of Saxton went out Janry. 2nd
1761.
Thomas Bolton son of John Bolton of Milford went out March
25th 1761.
David son of Andrew Joy of Sherburn went out Not. 14th
1761.
John son of John Shoot of Micclesneld went out Not. 80th
1761.
Robert son of Robert Clayton of Sherburn went out July 29
1762.
Thomas son of Thomas Smith in the 'Parish of All Saints with-
in the City of York went out Augst. 17 1762.
Edmund son of Robert Leach of Abberford in the Parish of
Sherburn went out Septbr 18 1762. Henry Todd in his
place.
Thomas son of Robert Clayton of Sherburn went out March
ye 14th 1768. H. Whetherill in his place.
Thomas son of Robt. Lee of Sherburn went out May ye 8th
1768. John Spencer in his place.
Ananias son of Ananias Bothemley went out June 27th 1768.
John Middlewood in his place.
William son of Richard Hill went out Jan. 1st 1764. Wm.
Todd in his place.
Robt. son of William Biscombe went out Jan. 1st 1764.
Matthew Brown in his place.
Wm. son of John Simpson went out Jan. 1 1764. John
Nournvale in his Place.
Thos. Hanson went out 2d April 1764. William Falkingam in
his Place.
Thomas Hudson went out 25th June, 1764, Lancelot Simpson
in his Place.
Wm. Settle went out 19th September 1764. William Black-
burn in his Place.
Joseph Hope went out 22d November 1764. Thos. Barker in
his Place.
George Brown went out at Christmas 1764. Wm. Summers in
his place.
Robert Bothemley went out at Christmas 1764. George
Middlewood in his place.
James Stoner went out June 24th 1765. James Shaw in his
Place.
Thos. Brown went out June 24, 1765. Edward Spencer in his
Place.
Thos. Jackson went out August 15th 1765. John Bothomlay
in his Place.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 289
$atittz of Jhto Unnks.
Mr. William Brigg, B.A., 18, Park Bow, Leeds, has in the
press for Subscribers at 12s. 6d., " The Registers of St. Nicholas
Aeons, London," 1589-1812. Only 150 copies are being printed.
The Begistebs op the Pakish of Wandsworth, Surrey, 1608-
1787. Transcribed by John Traviss Squire, a Solicitor of the
Supreme Court. Lymington, C. T. King, 1889. Imp. 8vo.,
pp. iv., 558. The Index occupies 94 pages of three columns
each, and without doubt many Yorkshire names occur ; thus,
the burial, Aug. 14, 1668, of William, son of Mr. William
Horsefall. The work forms a most valuable addition to the
genealogist's library, and not alone regarding the families of
Surrey, but all the counties whence London and its vicinity
drew the ever increasing population.
Yorkshire Arcreological Association. — Becord Series, Vol.
viii. for 1889. Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period. Part iv.
Printed for the Society. 1890. pp. viii., 262 + Beport, 14
pages.
The index fills 57 pages, and as in previous vols., mentions
almost every township and old family then existing in the
county.
Yorkshire Archaeological Association. — Annual Beport,
January 1890. 11 pages.
The " Journal " and " Becord Series " have outgrown in the
annual issue of pages the promised quantities, and have to be
curtailed unless an accession of new members takes place.
The Yorkshire County Councils should make grants for the
publications of the Index of Wills, &c. We find fault with the
nsertion of one word where, regarding the loss of books from
;he Library, the Council trill have to make more stringent
regulations. One half of Watson's Halifax (being bound in
iwo volumes), was lost before the books were deposited in the
present room.
Old English Country Dances. — Edited by Frank Kidson,
Burley Boad, Leeds. Londo"h, W. Beeves, Fleet Street, 1890.
[n fancy boards, oblong octavo, 2s. 6d. Also 80 copies on
land-made paper at 5s. 25 pages of music printed on one
side, in 18th century style, followed by 80 pages of notes and
Dance-music bibliography. Half-a-dozen at least of the 64
neces bear Yorkshire titles.
It is well known that Mr. Kidson is the authority we look to
n these matters, especially for Yorkshire, and we are pleased
o see that the " Country Dances " is but an earnest of good
hings to come. He is preparing for publication at 5s. a
Collection of Ballad Tunes, chiefly gathered in Yorkshire and
South Scotland.
Y.N.Q. T
i
290 YORKSHIRE NOTE3 AND QUERIES,
Wilsden Almanac, 1890. Third year of publication, 2d.
B. Binns & Son.
The first sixteen pages include interesting local items in
prose and verse. The rest is not locally printed.
The Gilchrist Lectures, delivered at Wath-on-Dearoe,
1888-9. Mexboro' : Walter Turner, Mexboro* and Swinton Times
Office, 1889. Reprinted from news columns.
Dr. Dallinger on " Infinitely Great and Small : " pp. 25.
Sir R. Ball on " The Telescope : " pp. 88.
Dr. Williamson on " Limestone Rtick:" pp. 20.
Mr. W. L. Carpenter on " Niagara : " pp. 25.
Prof. Seeley on " Water in Land-shaping : " pp. 20.
Dr. Wilson on " Chalk and Coral : " pp. 29.
These form a neat volume, and we are not surprised to hear
that it is now sold out.
Index to the First Volume of the Parish Registers op
Gainford, County Durham. Part II., Marriages, 1669 — 1761.
London : E. Stock, 1889. Pp. iv., 96.
We heartily welcome the second part of this carefully edited
" Index," but we prefer to name it "Register, arranged in
Index form." Paper, printing, binding are excellent. We
believe Mr. Walbran, of Ripon, printed four copies of Gainford
Registers, one of which was deposited in the British Museum.
The Diary of Mr. Justice Rokeby. — Printed from a MS. in
the possession of Sir Henry Peek, Bart. Privately printed.
Handmade paper, vellum cover, 4to., pp. iv. 59. The preface,
dated Nov. 1887, is signed by William Boyd.
Mr. Justice (Thomas) Rokeby was the second son of Thomas
Rokeby, Esq., of Burnoy and Sandal, and entered Gray's Inn
in 1650, aged about nineteen. He married Ursula, daughter of
James Danby, Esq., of Newbuilding, Thirsk. He was the prin-
cipal adviser of the Nonconformists in the North of England,
and was a great supporter of William III. He was appointed
Justice (Common Pleas) in May, 1689, and was removed to the
King's Bench Oct. 1695. He died Nov. 26, 1699, and was buried
at Sandal.
An index of cases, 1687-8, mostly Yorkshire ones seemingly,
occupies the first eight pages, and then commences the brief
record of his travels in the middle, south and west of England
as Justice. Their great interest tends to increase our deep
regret that the other diaries of Justice Rokeby are lost. The
book affords a treat to the antiquaries of the districts named,
and is a neat memorial of a Yorkshire worthy : but how elated
we should have been to find similar entries regarding Yorkshire
sheriffs, prisons, coiners, jailers, highways, &c.
Yorkshire Legends and Traditions, as told by her ancient
Chroniclers, her Poets, and Journalists. By the Rev. Thomas
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 291
Parkinson, F.B. Hist. Soc. Second series. London, Elliot
Stock, 1889. 8vo., pp. x, 246.
As of the First Series, we need but say — " Welcome, well
done," and venture to hope that a Third Series may speedily
follow. The bye-paths of Yorkshire literature are being well
explored.
Records op Yarlington. — Being the History of a Country
Village. By T. E. Rogers, Esq., M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese
of Bath and Wells. London, Elliot Stock, 1890. Small 4 to.,
pp. viii, 94.
Mr. Rogers seems favourable to the theory that Yarlington
and our own Qirlington mean " towns of the Girlings," a name
that still exists in East Anglia as a surname. He rapidly
traces the Manor from Domesday Survey to the present, and
gives pedigrees of the Nevilles (King Makers' family), Berkeleys,
and Godolphins, and thus introduces to us Mary, daughter of
Francis, 2nd Earl Godolphin by Lady Henrietta Churchill,
daughter of John, Earl of Marlboro*. This Lady Mary died in
1764, having married Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, K.G.,
who died in 1789, whose son Francis, born 1751, became
Marquis of Carmarthen. Of him, Mr. Rogers gives an interest-
ing account condensed mainly from Browning's "Political
Memoranda of the Duke of Leeds,1' (Camden Soc, 1884). Mr.
Chancellor Rogers has done well in issuing this neat little
volume, and we hope it may stimulate other representatives of
old families and manorial lords to do likewise.
Pages in Facsimile fbom A Layman's Prayer Book in English,
about 1400 A.D. Containing Mediaeval versions of the Lord's
Prayer, Te Deum, Magnificat, etc., edited from the Original in
the British Museum, MS. 27,592. By Henry Littlehales.
London, Rivingtons, 1890. Small 4to., twelve pages of intro-
duction, and fourteen leaves (printed on one side only,) of
facsimiles. Price 8s. 6d.
Every fragment that restores to us the orthography of early
English is of great value to the philologist, and of general in-
terest to the historian, and to Mr. Maskell and Mr. Littlehales
our thanks are due for their valuable contributions. We have
read the instructive introduction with considerable profit, and
some acquaintance with old hand printing and ancient manu-
scripts gave us a zest for the facsimiles, that prompted the
desire that the whole book should be printed with modern type
opposite. Mr. Littlehales* work is a curiosity, but it is much
more to the student of the English Language, as we find in
such lines as this which we are compelled to give in modern
type, " Yeync shal he come vs alle to deme" (judge).
J3sop Redivivus. By Mary Boyle. London, Field and Tuer,
1890. Is. 152 pages. Quaintly illustrated. Old cuts are here
292 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
wedded to new fables, bat there is an old world quaintness
about the fables as well as the cats. The type and paper well
match, and combine in making a very pleasant volume of
modern morals.
Lord Strafford. By H. D. Traill. (English Men of Action
Series). London, Macmillan & Co., 1889. Portrait by Laconr,
after Vandyke, pp. vii, 206.
Dr. Traill has particularly placed Yorkshiremen under obliga-
tions by this talented and vigorous memoir of the London-born
Yorkshire man. The reader, who followed Lord Houghton's
vindication in our last issue, will be eager to master the closely-
printed analysis of the master-mind which dominated England
nearly three centuries ago. We are scarcely prepared to accept
Dr. Traill's statement, that " the once imposing train of believers
in the divine right of Democracy is diminishing every day."
Dr. Erskine Stuart, Staincliffe, Dewsbury, promises what
cannot fail to be an attractive volume, " The Literary Shrines
of Yorkshire." Airedale, Bolton Abbey, Bradford, Galder Vale,
Coxwold, GhapeMe-dale, Dotheboys Hall, Fulneck, Gomersall,
Halifax, Haworth, Hull, Enaresbro', Temple Newsam, Tanfield,
Rotherham, Teesdale, Winestead, and Walton Hall, form a
goodly start.
Hollinqworth's Psalmody. — A Manual of Hymn Tunes and
Chants. Edited by the Composer. Price 8s. (Wm. Holling-
worth, Little Horton, Bradford). Printed at Leeds, (1889).
pp. vii, 190.
The 808 tunes, comprised in this neat volume, are the com-
positions of Mr. W. Hollingworth, except one by his father,
written in 1840. They are all named and dated, and are suit-
able for any hymn-book, being unaccompanied by words. The
naming of tunes is a difficult matter, and we think it would
have been better to add " Hollingworth's " before such names
as La Trobe, Fulneck, and other well-known titles, to distinguish
them from the previously published tunes of those names. We
can, however, highly commend the volume for the grand and
simple harmony that pervades the large number we have tried,
and can recommend the work for either public worship or family
use.
A History of Cawthobne. — By Charles T. Pratt, M.A., Vicar.
Barnsley, Davis, printed for the Author, 1882, pp. xvi, 175.
Photo, view of the village. 8s. 6d. (With seven photos., 7s.6d.
but these are all sold).
By a surprising oversight, this interesting local work has
escaped our notice till now, and we can scarcely justify our
existence without giving most gladly our highest commendation
of the work, though not so promptly as we would otherwise
have done.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 298
Thb Elland Tragedies, viz: — The Murders of Sir Robert
Beaumont, of Crosland; Hugh de Quarmby of Quarmby,
Esquire ; John de Lockwood of Lockwood, Esquire ; Sir John
Eland, senior, at Brighouse ; Sir John Eland, junior, and his
son, at Eland, and others: with the exploits of Wilkin de
Lockwood at Gannon Hall, and Adam de Beaumont at Honley,
and in Bhodes and Hungary, as recorded in ancient manu-
scripts in prose and verse, with notes, pedigrees, and evidences
recently brought to light. Edited by J. Horsfall Turner. 2/-
Notable Yorkshire Churches. " Church Bells " Office,
London, W.C. Price Is., 70 pages, 4to. 82 largo engravings.
We can but presume that all our readers obtained, when
first issued, a copy of this interesting addition to the Yorkshire
Library. If not, we urge them not to miss the opportunity of
the re-issue to do so at once. It is a rare treat to turn to these
fine engravings.
Pleasant Walks all round Bradford, (180). By Johnnie
Gray, author of " A Holiday in Western France," " A Tourist's
View of Ireland," " In the Land of the Pipe and Kilt." Under
his proper name, Johnnie Gray has already made himself
known by his facile pen to our readers, and we are sure that
this profusely illustrated guide, of about 180 pages, will be well
worth the 2s. charged, and as the book is to be ready early in
April, our readers should lose no time in sending stamps, or
order, to Johnnie Gray, Gaythorne View, West Bowling.
Pleasant and practical, we dare vouch for the work unseen.
A History of Cumberland. By Richard 8. Ferguson, M.A.,
F.S.A., Chancellor of Carlisle, President of Cumberland and
Westmorland Antiquarian Society. London, Elliot Stock, 1890.
Popular County Histories : contains 812 pages.
The publisher has been very fortunate in obtaining the ser-
vices of Mr. Chancellor Ferguson as author of the Cumberland
volume, which is a masterly production, and a pattern for the
historian of the neighbouring counties. It is a county history,
and at the same time a key to what has been written on the
topography of the county. The ancient history fills two-thirds
of the book, and is written in a captivating style. To us, it
reads like a Yorkshire history, so nearly are we akin. With
pleasure we refer our readers to the constant Yorkshire refer-
ences in this excellent and marvellously cheap volume.
A Witty Doctor. — In the reign of George II., the see of
York falling vacant, and His Majesty being at a loss for a fit
person to appoint to the exalted office, asked the opinion of the
Bev. Dr. Mountain, who had raised himself by his remarkably
facetious humour from being a son of a beggar to the see of
Durham. The doctor wittily replied, " Hadst thou faith as a
294 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
grain of mustard-seed, then would ye say unto this mountain/"
at the same time laying his hand upon his breast, "be ye re-
moved and cast into the sea (see)." The king laughed heartily,
and forthwith conferred the appointment upon the facetious
doctor.
A Centenarian. — In February 1890, Mrs. Betty Webster, an
inmate of Dale Orange Almshouses, Askrigg, attained her 100th
birthday, having been born at Thwaite, near Muker, Swsledale,
on February 25, 1790. She is at present both hale and hearty,
and possessed of all her faculties, and so physically strong that
she performs all her own household duties. She has been a
widow 68 years, and an inmate of the almshouses since I860.
Mrs. Winn, Winnville House, Askrigg, kindly invited about 80
inhabitants of Askrigg over 60 years of age to tea in the even-
ing to meet Mrs. Betty Webster, to celebrate the unique event,
and a very pleasant evening was spent. Mrs. Webster was the
recipient of numerous presents and congratulations during the
day.
(Snualagtcal $tot*s from tHttakdulfr JKanor floUs.
These notes were taken in 1876, by leave of Mr. Stewart and
Mr. Townend, from the marvellously long and complete series
of Rolls, preserved at Wakefield. We can but give the genea-
logical information they contain for one district of that vast
section of Yorkshire lying about the two valleys of Calder and
Colne. The Manor of Wakefield is situated within the wapen-
takes of Agbrigg and Morley, and is one of the most extensive
and populous manors in England, embracing the whole of the
parishes of Wakefield, Sandal Magna, Woodkirk, Dewsbury,
Emley, Eirkburton, Halifax (except the townships of Elland-
cum-Greetland and Southowram) ; and parts of the parishes of
Almondbury, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, Normanton and
Thornhill.
Within the manor are holden four Court Leet or Sheriff
Toms, viz :
Wakefield, including the Constabularies of Wakefield, Stan*
ley, Sandal, Crigglestone, Walton-cum-Bretton, Horbury,
Ossett, Normanton, Soothill, Dewsbury, West Ardsley, and
Eccleshill.
Halifax, including the Constabularies of Halifax, Sowerby,
Skircoat, Ovenden, Warley, Wadsworth, Rushworth-cum-
Norland, Stansfield, Langfield, Heptonstall, Erringden, and
Midgley.
Briohouse, including Northowram, Shelf, Hipperholme-cum-
Brighouse, Rastrick, Quarmby, Dal ton, Fixby, Stainland,
Barkisland, and Hartishead-cum-Clifton.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 295
Holmfirth, including the Constabularies of Burton, Shelley,
Shepley, Flockton, Cumberworth, Thurstonland, Emley, and
Holme.
No history of any one of these towns can ever be written,
worthy of being called a history, until Wakefield Manor Rolls
are explored. We therefore deem it one of the first duties of a
County Antiquarian Society to get permission to print such
magnificent rolls verbatim. These Courts were held twice a
year, and in addition the Court Baron (which was always held
on the same day as the Court Leet) was also frequently held at
the Moothall in Wakefield.
In many parts the Manor is broken into by the Honour of
Pontefract, but it will be noticed that the jurisdiction reached
from Norm an ton, four miles east of Wakefield, to Todinorden,
about thirty-four miles. Eccleshill is surrounded by the Brad-
ford section of the Honour of Pontefract, and is eight miles
from the nearest part of the rest of Wakefield Manor. Dalton,
near Huddersfield, is also encompassed by Pontefract Honour.
The Wakefield branch of the Manor is about ten miles long by
seven or eight broad at widest part. The Holmfirth branch
reaches the borders of Cheshire, and is about fourteen miles
long. The Halifax branch, commencing at Hartishead, is about
twenty-three miles long. Besides the gallows at Wakefield,
the Lord of the Manor had the power of gibbetting at Halifax,
over a limited portion known as Sowerby shire.
Our notes, at present, are mostly genealogical, and culled
from the Brighouse section of the Bolls. It will be noticed
that in the early Bolls the word Brighouse is sometimes con-
joined with Bastrick. We accept the endorsement dates on
the Bolls, though one or two before 1811 may be slightly in
error. The oldest Boll is endorsed 1272. Of course, it is un-
necessary to state that they consist of skins stitched together
and thus form a roll of from thirty to forty feet, written the full
length, and a considerable part of the opposite length. After-
wards they comprise say a dozen long skins stitched together
in book form, and then rolled up. The following is a mixture
of English and abbreviated Latin, just as the readiest word
came to the pencil of a hurried writer, and does not convey the
full sentences.
Probably Wakefield Manor was granted to the Warrens by
Henry I., in 1116. The eighth Earl died in 1847. In 1464,
the Manor of Wakefield is recorded as belonging to the Crown.
In 1554, it was united to the Duchy of Lancaster ; and in 1681,
it was granted to Henry, Earl of Holland. It came into the
possession of Sir Oervase Clifton, Knt. and Bart., by marriage.
He sold it about 1668, to Sir Christopher Clapham, whose heirs
disposed of it in 1700 to the Duke of Leeds, in whose family it
still remains.
296 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
A few explanations may be useful : — dat, dant means gave ;
p. lie. cap. duas acras means for leave to take two acres ; p.
virid, spivis, sice, refer to cutting wood in the forests ; fil, filius,
filia means son or daughter ; ux, wife ; que sunt ux, widow ;
pater, father; vast. terr. means waste land; bosc. means
wood ; Hypm is Hipperholme ; non. ven. means not attending ;
brae = brewing; esch. =eeca,f food; succid. virid. =succidit cut
down viride, ' vert/ i.e, green-wood ; spinis for thorns ; Urra
nativa. land subject to the services of neifs, alias villeins ; op.
se v.=opponit se versus (spoken of a plaintiff) opposes himself
against; Calumpnia vers, a claim against; calumpniator,
claimant ; calumpniare, to claim ; p. sice, for dry wood opposed
to ' vert ; ' Uvavit hittes (hutesia) raised hue (and cry) ; puUrus
or pellus, a young horse ; mantella de wacheto, a watchet, Le.,
blue mantle ; juvencam, a heifer ; fleobotenavit, let blood ; fukerct
is I believe an English opprobrious term ; Molend means Mil-
ner ; trax. sang, drawing blood ; B. B. E. p'mo, 1st year of
King Edward's reign ; Cur. apud, Court at ; p. dec, after the
death ; freg. fald, broke open the pinfold or pound ; p'pos,
ppus, ppm, is propositus or greave ; vend contra ass., selling
contrary to the law ; cl'icus, clerk ; mia, mulct, fine ; molus
manuales, hand mills ; boues, oxen. The large numbers who
were fined for brewing, and quarrelling, will be noticed.
1272.
Bichard fil Henry de Bokes paid viiis iij for relief of his tene-
ments.
Beatrix de Totehill. Thomas de Totehill executor of Thomas
de ffekisby.
Henry de Northcliff dat vid p. lie. cap. duas pts. vn acre in
Hiprm de Will, fil Ade.
Hiperom Elias fil Xpiane and Bobert his brother gave iis. p.
lie. concord cu Bic. de Ouorom de plito turnns.
Hypm. Henry ffabr. de Chepedene vie/ lie. cap. iij pts. ten.
in Schepeden de John fil Wymarke.
Hypm. Alexander de Brighouses p. virie/. virf. Megge de
Brighouses p. sice. vid.
Bastrick. Henry fil John de Bastrik p. virid vief. Bichard
fil Mallin p. virid vid. Will, fil Nalle p. virid vid. Anote de
Bastrik p. sico. vid.
Hypm. Elias fil Xpiane de Northowram, xii acres in North-
owram of John de Shawe.
Hypm. William Talvate xiid. for vi acres super Clegcliffe.
Hypm. Adam by the broke p. spivis iiijef. Roger del Clyff p.
spivis \id. Thomas del N or then d, p. sice. iijd.
[Willm le Horseknave, Sourby p esch. i equ. ijd.]
Cure apud Bastrik, feast St. Barnabas.
Hpm. William fil Adam de Schepden dat xijrf. for 1J acre
new land in Schepden of the waste.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LOBE JOURNAL. 297
Jordan fil Adam de Shepden vid. for half acre in Northow-
ram.
Jolin fil Adam de Hiprm. vid. for half acre of waste in
Hiperom.
John fil Adam del Whytehill xviijrf. for two acres in North-
owram.
Richard fil Jordan de Northowram vid. for i rod in Northow-
ram.
[Thomas fil Xpiane de Linthwaite ij*. for land in Quermby.]
John fil Adam de Lockwode xijd. fealty.
Hipm. William fil WilUam del Hingandrode asprt. bosc.
crescente xii in salis Ric. del Wode.
Thomas fil Modeste xijrf. de plito debi.
Henry Abraham xijd. to take iii rodes new land from waste
in the wood of Hipperholme.
Rastrik. John del Botherode vid. p. sice.
Henry fil Modeste p. virid. vid.
Johna fil Xpiane p. virid. vid.
Sabina que sunt ux John fil Henry p. sice.
William Burreheved, Mathew de Totehill, ditto.
Hiprm. Walter fil Elie de Ourom iiijrf. & Thomas frater iiijd.
p. spiuis.
Michael de Haddegreue, Richard fil Walter, John le Pinder
de Ourom, ditto.
Jordan de Haddegreues p. virid. iijd.
Thomas del Broke, John del Wroo, Eva ux Thomas le Heyr,
John del Rode, Thomas del Rode, Roger del Brighouses, senior,
Thomas fil Roger del Cliffe, John fil Henry de Astay, John fil
Walter, Richard fil Jordan, John de Whytehill, Jd de Hallewaye
Simon fil Jordan, Henre de Coldelay, Henry de Goppelay,
Henry le Mar we, from iiid. to vid. each for viride, spiuis, or
sice.
Roger del Clifton vid. cap. 1 rod in bosc. of Hippm.
Henry Abraham xijd. cap. £ acre vasto.
Turn at Rastrik. Jury : — Alan del ffrith, Thomas de Dal-
ton ffis, Radus de Gouthelaghcharthes,* Henry le ffrankisse de
Staynland, [Ivo]Talvate, John de Bristall, John del Rode,
John Cricus de Hertesheved, Henry de Coldelay, John de P'rcy,
Thomas de Wytewode and Roger de Clifton.
Hiprm. Villata de Hipm. xiirf. non ven. Turn.
ux Roger fil John senior, brae. iiij<Z.
Magota de Chepelay brae. vid.
Ux Ad. Carpentare vjd. brae.
Ux W. Molendinare brae, iiijrf.
Ux Ric. le Taillour brae. vid.
Alex. Molend. de Brighouses non ven. vid.
•Golcar.
298 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIE8,
Due pultre wayue sunt in ppositura de Hipum vnde annus et
dies elaps est que vendi — del Wode p. vijs. Yid. Et ppus de
Hipum inde cartat.
Johnes Percy de Clifton p. non. ven. iijd.
Annabil de trax sang, de Agnete Rot-e her servant.
Will, le de Thornhill and John le Strengfelagh burga-
verunt domu Thorn, del Wode, took goods to value of xl*.
Hugh fil Will, fil Eve de Wakefeld trax sang, de Rio. del
Lathe de Clifton io attach.
Rob. Spillewoode trax sang, de Alex. Molend de Brighouses,
vid.
Beatrix ux Ade le Waynwrith trax sang de Emma Pynder de
Hipum, vid.
Alan de Bothomlay trax sang de Cecil fil Will, de Bothomley.
Hipum. Will, fil Robert de Haldeworth gave yid. for leave to
take 2£ acres in Haldeworth which John de Skirootes formerly
held of waste.
[Will, de Burga, psona of Thornhill.]
Hipum. Roger de Clifton ii*. virf. for 2 acres 1 rod of waste
in Wolueker.
Thomas le Webbester xijrf . for 1 acre waste at Underhouth.
Math, de Totehill iij*. for 2 acres of land in Bosoo de Hipum
in le Slede.
Richard de Bosco vi£ acres waste in Chypedene.
[Waterhouse family at Holme, this date.]
Hipum. Richard de Ouerom quer. de Elia fil Xpiane and
Robert his brother.
Cur. apd Brighouses die Mart, feast St. Edmund Reg. Anno.
R. R. E. pmo.
Hip. John fil Walt, de Oueron insult fee. Walter fil Elie de
eadm. and Matilda filie sue. The said Walter and Matilda
versus Richard brother of the said John.
John Molend and Matilda his wife.
John fil Oalfri le Colier gave vta. for heriot 6 acres in Ourom
p. dec. Galfri his father.
Will fil Ade de Hipron, vi<2. heriot 1 acre p. dec. Ade his
father.
John fil Will. Molend vM. heriot iij. parcels in Ourom p. dec.
of Thomas his brother.
John fil Ade fil John, xij<2: heriot 4 acres p. dec. Ad. his
father.
Will, del Hengandrode virf. heriot iii. prcels in Ourom p. dec.
Will, his father.
Richard le Taillour virf. for i rod in Brighouse of Roger de
Chepelay.
Molend (mill) de Rastrick farmed to William del Bothes and
Alex, del nrith.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL.
Turn at Brighouse. Jury: — John de Locwode, Alex, del
ffrith, Thomas de Dalton, John le fflemynge, John fil Ade de
Locwode, John de Hertesheued, John de Percy de Clifton, Galfri
del Dene, John de Bristall, Henry de Coildelay, Henry ffranceys
and Louecok de Nettleton.
ux Kio. de Schelff brae.
Boger fil Hanne de ffekesby trax. sang. Agnes ux Thomas
de ffekesby e.
ux William de Bradeley brae.
Ada ffullo. de Goulayecarthes tr. sang de Alan de Aldelay.
Malina de Holewaye de Northowram trax. sang. Malina ux
Ivonis de eadm.
fil. Ivonis de Prestlay tr. sang. Will. Coker. Alex, le Wayn-
wriht tr. sang Henry le Pynder de Hipm.
Alcok del Wodehouse tr. sang Will, ffoune. Ux Boger de
Brighouses brae, ux Will. Molend brae, ux Bic. le Taillor brae.
Pannage de Bosco de Hypm. vendit in gross to Will del
Bothes and Alex, del ffrith p. vj/i.
*Bic Thornhill pardoned for taking a stag in Saltonstall, 1274.
Alan de ffekisby, a juror at Bastrike, 1274.
Turning a road — To be returned, 1274.
Bobt. Saltonstall encroached on waste at Saltonstall 1274.
Bic fil Thos of Fixby 8*/- for leave to take 4 acres.
1276.
Hipum. John fil Jordan, Henry de Northwod, Peter de Hyp'm,
Will. Drake freg fald.
John de Haylay fforestar.
Will fil Hugh de Schypedene 1 acre which William del Dene
surrenders.
Yvo ffabr de Schypden.
John le Barn xijdL for 2 rods in bosc. Hypm.
Bichard de Hypm. owes xiij*. iiijrf. to John fil Jordan, pleg.
Hanne de Nortwode and Peter de Hypm.
Matthew and John sons of Boger de Bosco, Bastrik, heriot.
Hyprra. Hanne de Northwod de Hypum vid. for leave couend
meren dome, de Boger fil Hanne.
Gilbert del Bothes ijs. for leave to give in marriage his dau.
Alice, pleg. Hanne, ppos.
Anno ERE. quinto. Henry fil Boger de North wode gave viiid.
for the relief of his father's lands in Prsteley : pleg Henre de
Northwode & Bic. de Coppelay.
Alan prest de ffekesby.
Hypm. John clicus dm. Ingelard, Yicare de Halifax dat His.
p. fidelitate.
Wayf. vno pullo de Wayuo. at Sandall.
North bryg, Halifax, mentioned.
• 1274, or 2nd Roll very imperfect.
800 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Ad fil Will de Hypm, Alice de Coldelay, Richard de Hyp'm,
Will fill Hugh de Schepden xijd. for 1 acre.
Bad. de Bayrestowe ija. for 4 acres of John fil Roger and Ad.
fil Henry in le Brerechaye, Northowm.
1284.
John fil Jordan de Shypedene mortus est ; lands in hands of
the lord.
Henry de Risseworth, a juror, at Halifax.
Rastrik Turn. Jury : Robert de Stokkes, John de Schelf, Ad.
de Ourom, Henry p'pus de Hypm, John de Querneby, John le
Barne, Hen. de Dalton, Robert fil Dolfin, Gilbert Dynes, Robert
de Thackmache(r), Alan de fekesby, Thomas de Nettleton.
Peter de Nettleton broke the head of Thos. Edward virf.
Yx Robert Bate vend contr ass. vid. Eva de Rastrik ditto xii</.
Gilbert de Astay gives to Richard his son 2 acres in Hyperm.
Thomas fil Thomas de Hyperum took Jordan ffabr. (deodand).
Hypum. John de Rastrik, ppm, and Will, fil Peter de Hipprum,
house and 4 acres in Hypm.
Roger fil John Molend xijd. for leave to take 2 acres in Hiprnm
of Gilbert de Astay.
Will. Bercar ij hogges in bosc. de Hypm. iiij d. John Molend,
Henry de Astey, Jordan le cuiside, Jake de Halifax, Alicia fil
Mygeryth : ditto. Peter fil Alot de Hyprm esson John de Lewys,
pleg Hanne, ppos.
Gilbert de Astay op se vs Thos. de Hylton insult fee. in bosco.
de Hypm.
Hypm. John de Stanclyff.
Thos. Hogson p. sicca bosc. vW. pleg. John le Barn.
William de Hypum placed his two cows in the common pas-
ture of the field of Hiperum.
[Will fil Roger de Podesay.]
1285. (A good Roll.)
Rich, fil Symon del Bothes gave half a mark to have his lands
in peace till of age.
Jordan de Bosco gave 6d. for the relief of | acre to John his
son : pleg. Henry ppos.
Ad. Here de Hypu p. virid vW. pleg Roger del Clyff.
Mathew de Sonderland, tenant, is dead.
Gilbert del Bothes p. sicca bosco vid.
Bate del Bothes ditto.
Hugh le Tinker p. vir. vici. Will, del Scholecotes, do.
Will, de Hypun quer. Thos. le Webester.
Walter fil Matthew de Sonderland gave vi<Z. for relief of 6
acres, his father's lands.
Relicta Peter de Haldeworth sicca busca vid. Henry le
Hopper q. de El. de Schelff de pi. verb. pleg. Geppe del Dene.
Terra Will, le Toller taken by the lord.
WITH YORKSHIRE FOLK-LORE JOURNAL. 801
Thomas le Webster gave 6d. for leave to agree with Will, de
Hypu'.
Gristiana fila Ric : de Totehyll quer de Will, fil Roger de
Bosco. de pi verb vocata & non ven vid.
[Sourby. Ad fil Matth. de Saltletonstall.]
Rastrik. Roger fil Walter de Rastrik gave vid. for leave to
take 5£ acres with messuage in Rastrik of Walter his father.
Cristiana fil Richard quynel dat xiid. for leave to marry:
pleg John ppos.
Will, del Bothes vs. leave to take messuage and xx acres in
Hypu' of Alice de Hypu* and Peter her son : pleg Henry pps.
Distring. Ric. fil Walter de Sonderland ad respond Alice de
Southoru'.
Nalle de Dene, Henry de Hipum.
Lands of Ad. fil Will le Schapman in the hands of the lord,
he being dead.
John de Goldelay gave 6d. p. auxo. habend ad recupand qd
4am debitute Thorn fil Alot.
Henry le Pynder vid. 1£ rode in Hypu of Thos. fil Alot de
Hypm ; pleg. Thos. de Hypum.
Henry de Risse worth foreman juror, Turn apd Alifax.
Curia apd Rastrik die martis px post native, be marie.
Ricus Cade de Schypedene qs de Bate Bolder de plito verber.
pi. de ps. Math, clicus.
Mathew de Schelf qe de Alex fil Walter de Sonderland and
John his brother de plito trsgr. ps. Will fil Ivon de Hypu. Math,
gave 6d. for leave to agree.
John de Hovendene 6d. for special trial against Will. Drake.
Cecilia de Hypum op se vs. Alice fil Mygeryt & die qd ipa
• ienet Nalle fil sue in vno Wynd auene for x years.
John le Barne dat vid. p. inquis habend de vnaporco occiso
in Schypedene & inquis die. qd cains Thos fil Magot dc. porcu
jugulavit. ido satis in mia vid. pleg. Henre ppus.
Juliana fil Will de Schypedene gave 2/- for relief of lands of
Adam fil Will le Schapman.
Richard del Bothes qr de Henry de Northwode and John de
Bayrstowe de plito debi vs. Mia xijrf.
Richard Cade gave 6d. p. retraxit se v*. Bate Bolder pleg.
Alcok del Clyf.
Rastrik. Richard fil Ad. de Totehyll.
Hipu'. Gilbert del Bothes op se vs petre ppm. vid. pleg.
Henry pps.
John Jordan versus Gilbt del Bothes vid. pleg Jordan his
brother.
Thomas le Spensr qr de Roger del Clyf and John fil Richard
de vno qarto auene vid.
Ric. fil Waltr. de Sonderlande vid. p. lie. concord, cu Alice
mx Will de Suthorum.
802 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Ttirn, Brighouse Jury : phs de Schelf, Henry de Dalton, John
de Quernby, Robert del Stokkes, Alan del Glyf, John de Lok-
wode, Gibt. Dynes, Jordan de Rokes, Ad. de Hourum, Wills de
Bradelay, Will fil Vidue and Yvo ffabr.
Rastrik. Robert fil Robert ad exitu ville (Town end) trax sang,
de Rob fil John le flemang 2/-.
Hyp. Henry pps de Hypu cepit de Robo Cosyn latrone vnn
mantella de Wacheto & ipe euas. de pa. Henre uestiente ipm
esse latrone ido distring.
John fil Sybbe and Cecil ux Ad. Molend asportaverunt boaa
noctant.
Rastrik. Will fil Roger de Wodhouses.
Hyp. Julian de Schoulecotes est prgnans on Hugh le Tynker
& p. villata de Northouron nolveri illd. prsentare ido in mia 4
mark.
1297.
John de Bristall p. virid. vid. pleg. Walter de Ourum.
John del Wytehill ,, „ Ric de Bosco.
Ric. de Bosco for 1 ranis vento prstrate iijd.
Will Swyer p. esch. iii pore vid. pleg Peter del Clif.
Petre de Sutteclyf p esch iii pore ujd.
John de Astay, Henry de Goppelay for ditto.
Alex fil Ad Molend vid. lie concord Wm. Molend.
Hiperum. Will fil Nalle villans co his cattle with auene on
the land of Henry de Hipron which Will del Both pps. sold for
ijj. sine licence.
Cure and Turn apd Rastrik. Jury : — John de Quernby, John
le Barn, John le fflemyng, Thos. de Dalton, Alex del firith,
John clicus de Hartisheved, John de Prey, John del Rode, Ad
del Locwod, John de eadam, Henry de Hiperon, John de la Haye.
Richard Baton trax sang de Henry de Wyahou.
Richard Baton and Matilda his mother tr. sang Adam fil Yuon.
Galfri le Colyer leuauit vthes sup William ppm de Hipperom.
Eva del Broke habet molas manuales ad nocument dmn. que
nullas debet hore.
William le pipr qe de Alcok le Waynwrth and Ad fil John.
Henry de Schepden mortus est ; lands to the lord.
John del Rode p. sicca vid. pleg Ad de Brigghuses.
Alcok del Clif p. virid ii]d. pleg. Henry de Northwod.
Willm. de Heley p. eschap ij boues iid. pleg. Peter de la Lathe.
Walter fil Macok p. virid vid. pleg. Will de Sohypden.
Malekyn de Haldeworth p. eschap. i. bou ]d. pleg. Petre de 1*
Lathe (Barn).
Matilda relicta Ivon ffabr. vid. trax sang. Ad. fil Yvon.
John fil and her. Hen. del Dene xij d. for relief of his father's
lands.
Will, de Hagenewrth vid. leave to take Alice, widow of Robert
fil Will, le Chapman to wife : pleg. William ppos.
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[John fil John Wyclif, Wakefield, relieved his father's land.]
Adam le Waynwrth virid vid., John de Holeway p. esch. iiijc/.
Ad le Dyr esch. iiijd. Henry de Coppeley virid vjrf. pleg. Ad.
Home. Thorn fil Elie virid vid. pleg Rio. de Sonderland. John
fil William virid vie/, pleg Walter fil Eli : Henry del Rode sicca
Yid. pleg. Henry ppos. Roger fil Walter, sicca vjd. pleg Will.
de Schepden. Will. Garpentr. esch. iiijd. pleg Adam Molend.
Roger de Briggehuses, senior, sicca iiijrf. pleg. Adam his brother.
Will fil Walter de Schepden ijs. p. lie. cap. bovate in Hypm.
de Roger garcoe Rici de Clifton for xvi years, pleg Ad. ppi
Rastrik, and Roger fil John.
[Ellen fil Matilda of Fixby agt Henry de Fixby that he was
a bastard. Thos. Saltonstall bovate & half in Saltonstall, Rent
7*. bd. Ric. Saltonstall 2£ bovates at 9 /lid. Licence to build
a bakehouse.
Richard de Totehyll mortus est : lands in the hands of the lord.
Court at Rastrik. Beatrix fila & her Hugo de ffekesby xijd. for
relief of her father's lands. Thomas del Cote de ffekisbye xijd.
for 1 acre, pleg. Adam ppos. Rastrik.
Cecilia relict Richard de Totehill ijs. relief.
Hyp. Eli de Benteley owes vs. to Eue de Hiperm.
Roger fil John Molend ij*. for leave to take 1 acre and edifice
of Adam his brother in Briggehuses.
Rastrik. Thomas fil Ric. de Totehyll vis. viijrf. for the lands
of his father, pleg. Richard pps. Rastrik.
Hypm. Adam fil Henry de Northwod xviijd for x acres de
Adam fil Yvon ffabrin Breriehaye, Schepden.
Richard fil Hugh de Schepden dat xhZ. p. existend sub.
manucapt Rici fil Yuon de Hyp'on, John de Ouerum, Simon de
.Schepeden, Thomas fil Elie de Ouerum, Ade fil Iuonis and Ric.
del Wode.
Ric. fil Yuon de Prestely levavit (ditches) Shelf.
Cecil ux Ad Molend brae virf.
Will fil Radulph de Bayrestowe furabat de domo. Will fil
Oton de Schipden cags. & alia minuta ad val. viijd. io attach.
Richard fil Hugh de Schepden furabat viijd. from vid Will de
Pudesheye & qd est latro de plitz latrimis.
Richard fil Thomas del Cote iijs. ingress 1 bovate land in
ffekesby voc. Bernard oxe gangs de Thomas attecote, also xijrf.
for iiij acres ' tre nativ,' and x acres tre in custerode de Thos.
his father.
Hypm. Malina que sunt ux Ad. de Northowram land and
edifice to Richard fit Jordan de Northowram and John fil Walter.
Roger fil Will del Briggehuses ijs. cap. 1 bovate tre nativ. and
4 acres free land at Longeley in Hiperm. de Will fil Petre de
Hipron.
Rastrik. Adam ppos. de Rastrik \id. for 1 rod new land at the
Briggerode.
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[Soureby. Geppe le forester.]
[Ossett. Malina de Thyngelawe (Tingley).]
[Sourby. Ad. fil John de Horton land to Robt. fil Will, de
Saltonstall.]
Hypm. Agnes ux Ralph de Bayrestowe eschap iiijd. John de
Bayrestowe ditto ijd. pleg. Will fil Ede. Geppe le Colier ditto
in le Blacker virf. pleg W. Balder. Will de Halifax ditto iiij</.
Will Yunghare ditto iiijrf. pleg for each other.
Roger fil John Molendinare gave i mark for leave to take J
acre new land adjoining his garden and i acre in the Smythieker.
Richard fil Hugh de ffekisbye.
Hypm. Gilbert del Bothes op ves. Ric. le Bagger. John fil
Thos. Textor op se vs Alkoc le Waynwrth. Ad. fil John Molend
frater of Hanne pps. John le Barn qe de Rio. fil Yuon de
Presteley.
Turn at Rastrik. Jury : Robert del Stockes, John le ffiemeng
Ad de Locwod, Magr Thomas de Dalton, John le Barn, Will de
Bradelaye, Alex, del ffrith, John de Hertesheved clicus, Bad.
de Goutlekarwes, John del Rod, John de Proy, Tliomas de
ffekisbye.
[John fil Will fil Emme de Staynland trax sang de Will le
Pinder de Staynland.
Hypm. Jacke blade alias Mauk qr de Ric & Hugh de Presteley.
[John de Doncastre, seneohl.]
Rastrik. Adam ppos. de Rastrik xijct. cap 8£ tre of Hanne
Molendinare.
Hypm. Henry del Rode, Thos. de Hipern, Will de Bayrestowe
sicca iiijd. each, plegs. Petre Suthclife, Ad. Brighuses, Ad.
fforestar.
Petre de la Lathe de Haldeworth.
Adam fil John de Hiprom.
[Ossett. Dns Ric fil Walter de Heton, capells. Sum Total
Annum pquis— Rastrik xvs./vid. Hyper, xxviij*. vd.
[Adam the Baker living & having lands in Fixby viri. for not
coming to Brighouse Court. Fixby vill. xita. not presenting
the same.
1306.
Cecila de Brigghuses gave vid for leave to hold a toft in
Briggehuses and 1 acre 8 rodes in Rastrik which Adam le
Molend. formerly held : pleg Roger de Briggehuses.
Petre de Suthcliff qe de Ad. fil John.
Thos. de Totehill qe de John Spillewood about land at
Briggehuses.
Alcok le Waynewrth virf to take £ acre of Adam fil Alote.
Roger fil John Molend and John de Sunderland paid ij*. each
fine for not serving as greaves, as elected.
Roger, senior, of Briggehouses took of the waste.
Roger fil John Molend qe de John fil Ric.
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iti&fcr&al*, " Sfrt j&imtyrlanfc of (Bnglaitfc."
Without claiming folly the title sometimes given as above,
or that Nidderdale contains so much magnificent scenery in so
little space as Ingleton, none will deny that it is a charming
district in which to spend a few days, and we therefore hail
with pleasure the attempts of the Pateley Bridge Improvement
Association, which was formed in May, 1887, with the intention
of making Pateley Bridge better known as an inland health
resort.
The early history of Nidderdale and its inhabitants is written
in the Stone Celts and Flint Arrow Heads, which have been un-
earthed from time to time, and which bear testimony to its
having been inhabited by the ancient Britons.
At Blayshaw Bents, (8 miles from Pateley Bridge) are a num-
ber of pit dwellings belonging probably to the same epoch. At
one end is an enclosure known as the "Roman Camp,1' and
adjoining these pits are heaps of slag or refuse from iron
smelting works, indicating that at one time iron ore has been
won and smelted here; but whether by the Romans or the
Monks of Byland has not been determined.
The Romans have left traces of their visit. They had a camp
here, the site of which is now occupied by the residence of
George Metcalfe, Esq., and the house retains the name by which
the camp was known — Castlestead. Castlestead, or Castle-
steeds, is said to have been the common name given to the
Castella on the wall of Hadrian, and near Corbridge-on-Tyne,
there are two forts called Castlesteeds.
Philologists say that Habewell, (Soldiers' well) which is
about a mile from Castlestead, has been so named, because there
may have been a well there which supplied the soldiers of the
garrison at Castlestead with water ; but it is scarcely likely they
would be under the necessity of going such a distance for their
supplies.
Harefield, (the soldiers' field) the name by which the resi-
dence of William Harker, Esq., J,P., is known, has doubtless
also originated from its proximity to the camp named.
The Roman occupation is further borne witness to by Roman
Coins, 31 of which were found in How Stean, and these with the
exception of ten duplicates that were given to the then Lord of
the Manor, (John Yorke, Esq.,) are in the possession of Mr.
Metcalfe, the owner of the property ; also by two pigs of lead
dug up on Hayshaw Bank, bearing the inscription —
" Imp. Cffls : Domitiano, Avg. Cos : vii. — Brio."
— taking back the history of lead mining at Greenhowhill to at
least the year 81 a.d.
y.n.q. u
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That the Saxon and Dane settled here in their respective
periods there is little doubt, but peaceful times were evidently
vouchsafed to this corner of the country at that time, for they
have left their impress only on the language of the people. The
ginger-whiskered, cheek-boned dalesmen flock down the valley
to Pateley fair, and the family likeness is very remarkable.
At the time of, and after the Norman Conquest, the neigh-
bourhood seems to have been wild and uncultivated, and of little
value, as shown by the entries in the Domesday Book.
Less than a century after the Domesday survey nearly the
whole of the valley, excepting Bishopside, which belonged to the
Archbishops of York, came into the possession of the family of
Mowbray, by whose generosity it was afterwards divided be-
tween the monasteries of Fountains and Byland.
Numerous granges rose under both houses, and, to meet the
spiritual needs of the monks' retainers, Chapels were erected at
Bamsgill, by the monks of Byland, and at Bewerley by those of
Fountains. Only one gable of the former now remains, and
is in the present churchyard at Bamsgill, but the one at Bewer-
ley situated a few yards from the Hall, is in a good state of
preservation. The motto in large old English letters,
"Jfrott 9*0 ijonov *t gloria*"
and the large initials " $jtt. $•" of Marmaduke Huby, Abbot of
Fountains from 1494 to 1526. are yet conspicuous on the walls.
The motto is on the East end, and the initials on the East,
North, and South sides. The gardener's house, near to, is an
interesting Tudor building which, tradition says, was the
Priest's House.
Another relic of the same period is Padside Hall, which,
though not strictly in Nidderdale, is but a short distance from
Pateley Bridge.
In the building of some parts of their abbey, the monks of
Fountains made use of their Nidderdale possessions, marble
from the bed of the Nidd finding a place in that vast pile ; and
its roofs being covered with lead from Greenhow. In those days
the lead was smelted a little distance from Brimham Bocks, and
the hamlet that grew around the Smelting house retains to this
day the name " Smelthouse." Cornfield Crag, near Smelt-
house, two miles from Pateley, commands a prospect of the
whole valley.
Within a comparatively short time after the dissolution of the
monasteries the major part of the dale came into the possession
of the Yorke family, the Lords of Studley and Orantley, and the
Ingilby's of Ripley, getting other portions, and Bishopside re-
maining in the hands of the Archbishops of York.
Gowthwaite Hall, the former residence of the Yorke family,
is a fine relic of early 17th century architecture. Here the
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807
Gowthwaite Hall, where Eugene Aram taught.
notorious Eugene Aram, who was
born at Bamsgill, (two miles farther
up the valley,) and baptised and
married at Middlesmoor Church,
taught a school.
Pateley Bridge, the metropolis of
Nidderdale, was 600 years ago of
sufficient importance, that in the
year 1819, King Edward II. granted
a charter for a weekly market to be
held.
The Old Church, now in ruins,
takes us back to a yet earlier date in
the town's history, it probably having
beegi built about the year 1250,
though the tower was not erected till
1691. Walking in the Church
the visitor will find many evidences
of the longevity of the dales-
(some having reached the age
years,) telling of such a purity
atmosphere as quite warrants
present inhabitants pushing before Yorke Arms,
the notice of the public the claims of the valley as a health
resort.
The pure invigorating air that comes down the valley from
the moors that skirt it on three sides, and the excellent water
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
which abounds are, however, not the only arguments in favour
of its becoming a health and holiday resort ; for in this quiet
retreat is contained a number and variety of places of interest
and beauty that can rarely be found in combination within a
similar area. The district is rich in studies for the artist, the
geologist, the botanist, and the antiquary.
Brimham Rocks (Si miles from Pateley Bridge), are amongst
the greatest natural wonders of the country, and are particularly
interesting to geologists as an example of sub-aerial denudation,
(at least in the later stages of their formation). They are the
The Baboon's Head, Brimham Rocks.
remains of a thick bed of coarse sandstone or grit — the Third
Grits in the Millstone grit series, — the rest having been removed
by the effects of wind, frost, and rain. The ground occupied by
them is about 60 acres in extent, and forms a moorland plateau
which is about 990 feet above the level of the sea.
It is difficult to convey an idea of the appearance of these
rQcks to those who have not beheld them. They have been des-
cribed as a forest of massive boulders carved by nature into
fantastic and bewildering shapes. Grange says — " No descrip-
tion can do justice to them ; their grotesque singularity and
rugged grandeur alike defy the pen of the poet, and pencil of the
artist. Produced by a violent disruption of nature, when the
crust of the earth has been rent asunder, and these heavy masses
of millstone grit upheaved and piled around in random con-
fusion ; afterwards washed and worn into crevices, and their
forms rounded and smoothed by the waves of a sea beating on
and around them, the softer parts have yielded to the action of
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these elements, which the harder have resisted, hence their
strange and uncouth forms which fill all beholders with amaze-
ment. Thousands of years must have elapsed since any material
change has taken place in their forms, as they are thickly coated
with mosses and lichens, and no process of waste is visible at
present. Many of their heads are crested with masses of
heather or ling, growing out of a stratum of peat, in some cases
fifty or sixty feet above the surface."
Names suggested by their appearances have been given to
many of the rocks, amongst the great number of which are the
"Idol Rock," " Baboon's Head," "Pulpit Rock," and "Yoke
of Oxen." The first of these is one of the most wonderful, being
about 20 feet high, and perhaps 40 feet in circumference ; yet
resting on a pedestal which, in its narrowest part, is but twelve
inches in diameter. There is an extraordinary group of Rocking
Stoxes which can be easily moved. The largest of the group is
supposed to be a hundred tons weight.
Another moveable stone called the Boat Rocking Stone, is
probably 40 tons weight, and is nicely poised on the edge of a
precipice. It oscillates with slight pressure, and though its
falling over the cliff seems imminent when in motion, it would
take more than human strength to dislodge it.
The Great Split Rock which is in three parts, the whole
being about one hundred yards in circuit, marks the line of a
fault, which divides two portions of the rock from the third.
This, taken into consideration with the fact that the strata of
Brimham on one side of the valley, coincide with the strata of
Guyscliffe on the opposite side, is very suggestive as to the way
in which the valley has been formed.
The view from the rocks h magnificent, extending to Whern-
side, Simon's Seat, York Minster, the Plain of Mowbray, and
the Cleveland Hills. Admission, 6d.
South of the Rocks is Brimham Tarn, about half an acre in
extent ; and, on the opposite side of the road, about a quarter of
a mile distant, has been a lake covering about 10 acres, but the
embankment is now broken in the middle. No doubt is enter-
tained that the latter was one of the fish ponds belonging to the
abbots of Fountains. The hollows of two other fish ponds
which belonged to the same epicurean proprietors also remain
near Brimham Hall, which edifice occupies the site of an old
monastic grange, and is built of the stone of the former house,
with the letters of the inscriptions which were thereon, indis-
criminately distributed.
Akin to Brimham Rocks in their formation and appearances
are Cornfield Crag, near Smelthouse, Magil Crag, on Pateley
Moor, and Crocodile Rock, near Guyscliffe, each surrounded by
scenery variously picturesque.
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YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Guyscliffe, (a mile from Pateley Bridge) the counterpart of
Brimham Bocks, but which the elements have attacked in a
different fashion, is a prominent cliff, 1000 feet above the sea
level, and 600 feet above the valley below, forming a boundary
line between two classes of scenery widely different. Looking
Guyscliffe Tarn.
from the cliff over the valley, the spectator has before him a
prospect of York Plain, a panorama of nearly the whole of
Nidderdale, and immediately beneath, the extensive Guyscliffe
Woods commence at the foot of the precipice, whilst behind
stretches a vast tract of moorland scenery.
Quietly nestling in the wood below is Guyscliffe Tabn, about
200 yards from the foot of the Cliff, and situated in a deep
hollow formed for its reception by a land slip. It is of an
oval shape, about one hundred yards long and half as wide,
and, whether viewed from the top or contemplated from its own
banks, with the cliff towering high above it in the back ground,
and the trees intervening, it is a charming addition to the land-
scape. The face of the cliff is worn as by waves of the sea into
innumerable crevices and crannies, which are tenanted by the
oak, holly, mountain ash, and other trees and plants. The
woods, in which the oak trees predominate, are intersected by
many walks, and bestrewn with numerous huge boulders, which
at some time have broken away from the mass above, and now,
being covered with mosses and lichens, enhance the picturesque-
ness of the scene. A breach in the cliff has received the name
" The Three Gaps." " Katie's Parlour " is a cave covered with
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a large crag; and among the rocks dignified with particular
names are " The Giant's Chair," " The Needle's Eye," " Pulpit
Rock," " The Trough," and the " Crocodile Rock."
Ravensgill, near to, is the most beautiful of the many glens
of which the valley boasts, among them being Biddings-Gill,
Helks Gill, Colthouse Gill, Burn Gill, Ramsgill, and Brayshaw
Gill, and a brief description of the first will indicate the beauties
of the remainder. The ravine is densely wooded, and, emerging
as it does in the vicinity of Guycliffe, is of unusual depth on
each side. Entering it at its foot, a path sloping upward and
climbing over mossy banks leads to the heart of the ravine. At
first the scene is merely pretty ; on the south is a plantation
of tall larches, and beneath the path flows the waters of the gill.
Further on, where the walk winds among tall ferns and taller
trees, the effect of the glen becomes magnificent. Grey crags
and lofty cliffs of gritstone rear their grotesque shapes against a
back ground of scotch firs and spruces, whose foliage seems to
rise to the highest sky ; and far below, the restless brook gleams
in the sun's rays, as it bounds over huge rocks singing of its own
loveliness. The moorland valley of desolation beyond presents
a scene very similiar to the celebrated Doon Valley in Devon.
Tickets for Whitewood, Ravensgill, and Guy's Cliffe, 6d., (or 3d.
each in a party) from the steward of T. E. Yorke, Esq., Bewer-
ley Hall.
The way hence to Pateley Bridge can be taken through Fish
Pond Woods, where man's efforts in the formation of the lake
have most nearly imitated nature. Encircling the pond is a
footpath shaded by fine beeches, which at places overhang the
road, dipping the tips of their branches in the water and form-
ing natural arches.
It is an easy walk from Pateley Bridge to Eagle Hall, Woods
and Lakes, where a strong force of water issuing from the en-
trance to a disused lead mine (Eagle level), feeds the two lakes,
and waters the beautiful, wooded glen on its way to the Nidd.
Eagle Hall received its name from the crest (an eagle rising
with expanded wings', from a ducal coronet) of the White family
to whom the estate formerly belonged. The last of the family
interested in this estate was Sir Thomas Woollaston White,
Babt. The hall is the residence of the Hon. H. E. Butler, J.P.,
and tickets to view, price 3d., may be had at the Pateley Bridge
Cocoa House, which is now mainly managed and supported by
Mr. Butler, and is a great boon to visitors. Lodgers will find an
excellent library and reading room.
Panorama Walk, in an opposite direction, extends a similar
distance from the town past the Old Church, leading to the
Knott, and by the road side, a massive rock, fenced and seated
round, makes a splendid coign of vantage from which another
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magnificent view of the dale is obtained, looking upon Guyseliffe.
Ravensgill, Bewerley Hall, Gastlestead and Eagle Hall.
Stump Cross Limestone Caverns, (four miles from Pateley
Bridge, in the direction of Skipton) were discovered in 1860, by
two miners. As far as they have been explored they are about
1100 yards long. In some places so high that the roof is hardly
visible, in others so low that the visitor is obliged to stoop —
almost to creep, they are well adorned with an endless variety
of stalactites and stalagmites, the former of which when slightly
struck, emit musical sounds varying according to the length and
bulk of the stalactite. Some of the parts have received names
appropriate to their appearance. «* The Church," a spacious
part so named, (30 feet by 12 feet high) contains a series of
stalactites close together against one side called " The Organ/*
and when struck in quick succession, emit musical sounds like a
set of bells. The pillars are columns of snowy whiteness rising
from floor to roof. The Fairy Fountain is a small well of the
clearest water, supplied by a single drop from the roof which
keeps the cup filled to its brim. The Snow Drift is a congealed
mass of dazzling whiteness. The Crystal Column is an upright
cylindrical shaft which divides the passage into two. There are
many other objects of interest.
Another cavern of similar formation has recently been dis-
covered at Blayshaw, near Lofthouse, but as yet no facilities are
offered for the ingress of visitors, and even if it were open to the
public it would not at present be safe for any but expert cave
hunters to venture in.
Wath Woods and Waterfall, are one mile and three quarters
from Pateley Bridge. Here is a patch of charming woodland
scenery in the most romantic part of which is perhaps the best
example of a waterfall the valley contains. Tickets for the
waterfall, 3d. each, from Mr. Leach, Wath.
How Stean is about seven miles and a half from Pateley
Bridge, and equi-distant from Lofthouse and Middlesmoor. On
the road thither the tourist will pass Gowthwaite Hall, and get
a view of some of the sites of the old monastic grange — Sigs-
worth, The Holme Houses, Calfal House, Bowthwaite, and
Sikes ; and on one side of the Helks Gill, may be noticed a
large barrow (about twelve yards in length, by four in breadth,
and three feet in height), which has yet to yield up its secret to
the excavator.
At Ramsgill in the churchyard is the ruin of a previous edifice.
The cottage in which Aram was born is demolished, but a rude,
flabby image of a man's face, the nose broken off but carefully
preserved, is preserved over a newly built cottage mantelpiece,
which was cut on Aram's cottage as a memorial of him.
How Stean, as a piece of picturesque scenery has few rivals ia
the country; and as a geological curiosity, Professor A. H.
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Bridge over How Stean Beck.
keen, who occupies the Geological Chair at Oxford, says — " It
not equalled in England." The water's course is through a
•ecipitous chasm, or gorge of mountain limestone, about seventy
et deep, with a rugged bed of the same, which in the upper
trt is rich in encrinites.
The sides composed of numberless advancing and receding
elves, hollow crannies and crevices of every imaginable form,
d one long stretch of shelving limestone, provides a terrace
,1k with another shelving part overhanging it. An abundance
mosses, lichens, and ferns, beautify the stones and furnish the
iny niches and projecting shelves, whilst a thick growth of
a, ash, oak, hazel and other trees interlace each other's
lghs across the chasm, which is spanned by three bridges at
rerent altitudes. This interesting spot affords an example in
liature of the wonderful canons of Colorado. It probably
3s its character in its initial stage to a natural crack in the
ita ; and, subsequently, to the two-fold action of the waters,
;hanical, in carrying away objects which impeded its progress,
chemical, in dissolving the carbonate of lime contained in
limestone. It is impossible to describe the grandeur and
uty of the scene. A winding walk along the side of the pre-
ce affords innumerable views into the gulf below, and im-
^e merits made lately allow this to be done without danger.
Abyss is bridged at one point, and the view from here is one
nique beauty. The Black Maiden Hair, Maiden Hair Spleen
•t, Prickly Shield Fern, and Hart's Tongue are to be seen at
place.
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On the north east side is the entrance of a cavern known as
" Tom Taylor's Chamber," the other end opening into a field
about a hundred yards distant. It was in this cave that the
Soman coins were found. They were placed perpendicularly in
a crack in the rock, partially covered with water, and some of
the coins were even worn to a sharp edge with the continual
washing.
Gorge and How Stean Beck.
On the same side, about 200 yards from the stream, is the
mouth of a subterraneous passage known as Eglin's Hols. It
is of unknown length and extent. Some say it has been
explored to a distance of two miles from the entrance ; others
that it extends under the village of Middlesmoor. No authentic
account however exists of any thorough exploration.
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Middlesmook (eight miles from Pateley) stands on a hill which
vides the valley of the Nidd proper from that through which
ow Stean beck flows. There is a fine view from the church-
,rd.
Goydon Pot is in the former valley, about two miles from
rfthouse, nine from Pateley, and is reached by a pleasant foot-
th on the riverside. It, and Manchester Hole, are caverns
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nto which the river Nidd runs, commencing its two miles' sub-
terranean course which terminates near Middlesmoor Vicarage.
Except in times of flood these openings in the rock, suffice to
sarry the whole of the river, leaving the former bed dry, save for
the mountain streams that flow therein further down. The
mouth of Goydon Pot opens at the corner of an angular cliff of
816 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
mountain limestone, and is about nine feet in height, by twelve
in breadth, and the bottom, at an entrance, has a descent of four
or five feet. The cavern has been explored for a distance of 642
yards, at the end of which the rock above and the water beneath
meet and prevent further progress. In some parts it is necessary
to stoop and even crawl, whilst at one place the cavern opens
out to such an extent, that one explorer says it could easily hold
a couple of ordinary-sized churches. A little distance further
down, the water forms an immense cascade of three leaps, each
about ten feet in height.
Merryfield Glen, two miles from Pateley, is a pretty dell,
through which flows Foster beck.
Besides the many places of attraction within an easy circuit of
Pateley Bridge, that town is not an inconvenient centre from
which to visit Ripley Castle, (where Oliver Cromwell spent the
night before Marston Moor), Fountains Abbey, Hackfall, and
Bolton Abbey, and the pedestrian tourist could easily combine a
visit to Nidderdale with his tour to Wharfedale, Wensleydale, or
Coverdale. [The Editor has twice crossed from Pateley Bridge,
via Bamsgill, Howstein, Lofthouse, (with its remarkable Nidd
issues, seven miles from Pateley) Middlesmoor, Lodge (with its
broken bridge over Nidd, its wooden bridge, waterfall, its
" Wesleyan chapel, 1858," a wee building indeed, but ample for
the half-dozen houses around, its guide post, four miles from
Middlesmoor, ten from Ley burn), a mighty climb over the flank
of Little Whernside (beyond which, rising stiff and sullen, is
Great Whernside), to desolate Upper Coverdale, a trackless climb
over a boggy mountain due north to the more lonely Walden
Beck dale, down which we proceed to West Burton, a quaint old
market town, with renovated market cross, an extensive green
where the April and May fairs for Scotch cattle are held, an
Independent chapel, a Church schoolroom, a beautiful water-
fall and other objects of interest may be seen, to Aysgarth. Let
none but the very strong attempt this in a day, and be sure to
have daylight wherein to finish your work, for do as you will,
you are likely to get into swamps, and lose the tracks and have
to climb loosely built walls of six feet.] The following descrip-
tion of Lower Nidderdale gives one no idea of the utter desolate-
ness of the Whernside dales, but aptly describes the Pateley
district.
" Nature, in her own careless, bountiful, generous way, has
done more for the spot than the niggard and restricted hand of
man could ever hope to accomplish. Great, circling mountains
sever the valley from the world, and within the vast amphi-
theatre thus created, scenes the wildest and the sweetest* the
most rugged and the most rural, are to be found in equal profu-
sion. From far Whernside to the barren heights of Brimham
lies an infinite variety of land and water ; land which sometimes
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rises abruptly towards the middle sky, and sometimes slopes
gently under acres of corn ; and water which sometimes rushes
over mighty cliffs in a foaming cataract, and sometimes winds
along the valley in a succession of silver links. Over all hangs
an air of isolation which even that pioneer of noise, the railroad,
cannot altogether dispel. The long, irregular ridges which de-
scend from the moors on either side are dotted with red-tiled
villages, not the least attractive of which is Pateley Bridge itself,
with its steep main street, and numerous wynds branching out
to right and left."
For much of our information we are indebted to Mr. W.
Grange's interesting and exhaustive work on " Nidderdale,"
the copyright of which is owned by Mr. J. Mason, Pateley Bridge,
and we hereby acknowledge our obligations.
W. H. D., P.— B.
HALIFAX SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.
This building was erected in 1828 under the superintendence
and from the designs of Mr. John Oates, a noted Halifax archi-
tect at that time. Every visitor to Halifax, of literary tastes,
will make his way to Harrison Road to see the library as well
as the museum. The Halifax Literary and Philosophic Society
was instituted in 1881. Its earliest supporters were Christopher
Rawson, Esq., Edward Nelson Alexander, Esq., F.S.A. ; John
Srnith, Esq., Dr. Moulson, Dr. Kenney, and the Rev. J. B.
Reade. The subscription library was established so early as
1769.
Rishworth School. — Among the many Yorkshire grammar
schools unnoticed in Carlisle's Grammar Schools is that at Rish-
worth, near Halifax. The best account we know of is given in
*' Crabtree's Halifax." It was founded by John Wheelwright,
of North Shields, in Northumberland, gentleman, who by will
dated October 14th, 1724, gave his Yorkshire estates upon trust
to John Wheelwright, of Norland ; Ely Dawson, of Clay House ;
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and Abraham Thomas, of Dewsbury, for building a school at
Dewsbury and another at Rishworth. Authority was obtained
in 1824 to abandon Goat house in Rishworth, where the school
had been kept and the master lived, and erect the school
shewn in the engraving, kindly lent to us by Mr. Birtwhistle,
Halifax ; to whom we are indebted for the preceding and follow-
ing blocks.
o
Halifax ftarisb €\jnvt\j lUgtsttrs.
An attempt was made some years ago to print the first volume
of these registers as an appendix to the localized "Parish Maga-
zine," but when ninety-six pages of print were issued, recording
the entries from December 1588, to November, 1541, the work
ceased. Mr. Lister transcribed the work thus far, and the writer
partially continued the transcription as follows : —
Thomas Mychell de Skyrcote sepult fuit xv*° Novemb. [1541.]
Johes fil. Willm Gawkroger de Sowrby sepult fuit xxj° die.
Johana fil. Rici Berstow de Ovenden sepult fuit xxiiij0 die.
Hie incipit mens Decemb. Ano. Dm. 1541°
Margaret ux. Alex. Jackson de Halifax sepult fuit sod. die.
Johanna Mydylton de Sowrby, sexto die
Johes f. Rici Bynnes de Wrley xij.
Johnna f. Thoe [Thomas] Bayts de Sowrby xv.
Margareta nupr. relict W. Bowland de HypromeJ ..
Elena nupr. relict Johis Payge de Ovend. |XV1J#
Agnes f. Gilbt. Whewell de Northour. xviij die.
Johanna f. Richard Best de Halifax xxij die.
Alicia nupr. relict Thome Horsfall de Sowrby, vidua, xxiiij.
Johanna nupr. relict Johis Haldesworth de Sowthor. vidua )
Margaret f. Will. Whytngham de Ovenden jxxix.
Hie incipit mens. Januarij Ano. Dm. 1541.
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Sliz. f. Will. Lystr de Halifax, primo die.
tobtus Crowther de Sowrby, scdo die.
Tohn Cokecroft de Ovynden, quinto die.
illizth. Carcey de Halifax ) ,
k)hn f. John Rauson de Hiprome }sext0
Cds. f. bast. Will. Threpeland & Mgt. Stansfeld xiiij.
Ilizth Rici Turner de Sowrby xix.
[gt. nupr. relict Thoe. Sunderland, Halifax, vid. |
XX111J
ohanna f. Oliveri Ramesden de Sowrby
licus f. Rici Stoks de Ovenden, xxviij.
largareta f. Jacobi Walker de Wrley sepult penultio die.
Hie incipit mens February Ano. Dm. 1541°
820 YORKSHIRE NOTES AND QUEBIE8,
Bicus Smyth de Hiprome } A
John f. inft. Henr. Bayneforth, Warley[scnao-
Eliz. f. W. Gryar de Ovenden, quarto.
Wm f. Ed. Bomesden de Halifax, sexto.
Wm f. John Dykson de Sowrby septio.
Ghristabella nnp relict Gilbt Berstow, Hx. vid. ) •••
Eliz. f. Bic. Nycoll de eadem J™#
Robt. Coke de Hiprome, xij.
Isabella nup relict Johis Cokschote de Sorby xiij.
Robt. f. Georgii Dukeworth de Sorby xiiij.
Isabella nup. relict Johis Walker de Halifax, xvij.
Agnes f. ffrancissi ffawcett de Halifax xviij.
Jacobz. f. Thome Raynr de Halifax xxiij.
Margaret f. John Beke de Wragby xxv.
Margaret nup relict Johis Jaggar de Halifax xxyj.
Hie incipit mens. Mrcii Ano. Dm. 1541°
Robtus f. Laurentij Bayts de Northor. quarto die.
Isabella f. Henrici Batt p. de Byrstall, x.
Dns. Thomas Gleydehyll Cantarist in Gantarie vocat Wylbe
Ghauntre ac quond. vicarius de Gunesburghe sepult f. xij die.
Edwardus f. Bici Dobson de Sowrby ) -.
Johana nup relict John Nuttr., Hyprom ) ^
Willm Pyghylls de Mygeley xv.
Johana nup relict W. Holmes de South, vid. xvij.
Bobt. Estwod, Hx. xx°
Itm Bicus Beurley* de Sowrby Decollate. & Sepult. fuit eodm
die & ano.
* Baptisms 1542 (from p. 86) (Marcii).
Anna filia Bichardi Hebeltwaite de Skyrcote baptizata fuit
xxvjfc die eiusdem.
Bobertus filius Johannis ffornesse de Halifax )
Georgius filius Johannis Halde worth de Schelff J
baptizati fuerunt xxvij° die mensis ejusdem.
Bichardus filius Wilhelmi Hochsonson de Northourum bapt.
fuit xxix° Mrcij 1542.
Margareta fiUa Edwardi Gybson de Northorum bapt. xxix.
Bichardus filius Xpoferi Hooll bapt. fuit ultimo die Mrcij 1542.
Aprell 1542.
Agnes et Elizabetha filiae gemelli Johannis Wales baptizate
fuerunt primo. Ap.
Henricus filius Johannis Sayvyll de Skyrcote bapt. tercio.
Bobertus filius Bichardi Waterhouse de Skyrcote)
Itm Georgius fil. Johannis Herteley de Ovenden I
bapt. fuerent viij° die mensis eiusdem.
Georgius filius Bichardi Gawkeroger de Sowerby bapt. fuit
nono die.
* Beverley, not Bentley as generally printed.
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Baptisms Wanted — April to November, 1542. \ , nrk™*A
Sepulti Wanted— May 1542 to 1st April, 1548. J n01 copiea
o
Elizabetha filia Henrici Holl de Soyland baptizata fuit xxix°
die mensis ejusdem (Nov.)
Johannes filius Johannis Bynnes de Sowerby baptizatus fuit
vltimo die Novemb. 1542.
Johannes filius Richardi Lyster de Halyfax baptizatus fuit
primo die Mensis Decemb. 1542
Hie incipit secund. die mens. Decemb.
Item Richardus filius Bichardi Longbothum de Warley bap-
tizatus fuit eodem die & ano.
Henricus filius Edmundi Tylson de Sowerby bapt. fuit scdo.
die mensis eiusdm.
. Hugo filius Oliveri Speight de Warley bapt. fuit x° die.
B. Johannes fil. bastardus Briani Haldesworth & Johanne
ffayreburne de Northorum, xij°
Eufemia filia Xpoferi Smythe de Skyrcote, bapt. xyj°
Isabella filia Wilhelmi Shepperd de Halifax bapt. xx°
Esabella filia Roberti Waide de Sowerby bapt. xxvj*
Johanna filia Edmundi Bynnes de Skyrcote bapt. xxviij0
Thomas fil. Richardi Haldesworth de Northorum bapt. vltimo
die.
Hie incipit mensis Januarij Ao. Dm. 1542.
Isabella filia Henrici Redehaughe de Warley bapt. fuit tercio.
Item Johannes filius Johannis Hellewell de Sowerbi bapt. fuit
eodem die.
Johannes filius Johannis Nayler de Sowerby bapt. fuit quarto
die.
John f. John Haldesworth de Northorum) , , . ,.
Alicia f. Roberti But [h] rode de Halifax l™*1' sext0 me-
John f. Richard Benne de Schelff bapt. viij° die.
Robert f. Edwardi fforest de Halifax bapt. nono die.
Anna f. Georgii Holl de Sowland bapt. eodem' die.
Brian f. Robert Walker de Sowthorum, x°
John f. Robert ffowrness de Halifax \
Richd. f. Richd. Grenewod de Sowerby ) XV11J
Edward f. John Murgaterode de Warley, xix.
Wilhelmus filius bastardus and Isabelle Estwod, Sowerby,
eodem die.
John f. Thome Bolland de Hyprome, xxij.
Paulus f. Ed' Dobson de Hiprome, xxvto
Elizabeth f. Thome Baits de 8owerby, xxvj*>
John f. Richd. Holmes bapt. xxvij*0
Sepult Isabella f. Thome Leigh de Halifax ) , , - ^ . 0
Henricus f. Henrici Whytacr de Sowerb. \h^L fuenmt ****
Agnes f. Richardi Oldefeld de Warley bapt. xxx.
Hie incipit Mensis ffebruarij Ano. Dm. 1542.
v.n.q. v
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Margareta filia Georgii Crowther de Sowerby bapt. fuit secundo
die.
Margareta f. Edwardi Banaster de Sowerby bapt. vij°
Isabella f. Edwardi Heyley de Ovenden bapt. xj°
Elizabetba f. Jacobi Smyth de Sowerby bapt. xij.
Isabella f. Henrici Talyour de Sowthorum, xiij.
Agnes f. Roberti Sutclyffe de Hep ton stall, xv.
John f. Badulphi Stansfeld de Warley, xyj.
Elizabetha f. Bichardi Schay de Warley, xyj.
Milo f. Bichardi bryge de Warley xviij
John f. Bobert Crabtre de Sowerbi xxiiijto
Margareta f. Bichard Denton de Halifax, vlt.
Eds. filius Henrici law de Northorum, sepult fait vltimo die.
Hie incipit mensis Marcij Ao. Dm. 1542.
Edwardus f. Wilhelmi Dughty de Ovenden bapt. fait primo.
Bobertus f. Brianij Crowther de Warley \ K . *,«-„«*
Bobt. f. Bobt. Vycars de Northowrome I ^^JJS
Willms. f. Jacobi Grenehawghede Sowerby mensis eiusdem.
Isabella f. Bobt. Schoffeld de Hyprome J "ltmBls ««■««■•
B. Johane filia bastarda Bichardi Berstowe de Halifax &
Johanna Gray iij.
John f. Caroli Broke de Lyghtclyff
John f. Gilbt. Pennyngton de Warley -bapt. quarto die.
Agnes f. Alanj Hopkynson de Sowerby)
Bobert f. John Schor de Ovenden bapt. fait eodem die.
Agnes f. Persevalli Deyne de Mygeley bapt. quinto.
Willm. f. Hugonis Bayneforth, Halifaxie U . ^
Thomas f. Wilhelmi Myggelay de Myggelay J F K
Agnes f. Thome Oldefeld de Warley bapt. nono.
Bobert f . Brian Doggeson de Halifax ) .
Agnes f. Bichardi Brodeley de Hyprome ) •**
EHzabeth f. Thome Longebothum de Sowthorum, xiij°
Edward f. John brodeley de Halifax, xvij.
Margaret f. Gilbt. Deyne, Warley, xxj°
Agnes f . Boberti Appostelles de Ovenden ) - ..
Agnes f. Xpoferi Cosyn de eadem ) ^
[1543] John f. Bichard Nycoll de Halifax, xxv* die Mensis
Mrcij Ao Dm. 1548.
Nupti 1542.
Badulphus Stansfeld, Elizabetha Bynnes )
Georgius Estwode, Margareta Harryson j
contraxerunt matrimonium vicesimo tercio die Aprilis 1542.
Willmus Brodeley, Margaret Deyne, vidua, xxiiij.
Bichardus Brodeley, Isabella Cokecroft, contrax matm. solemn.
vij° die Maij.
Edmund fforness, Agnes Cowpon, ix Maij.
Edwardus Haldeworth, Helena Smythe, quinto Junij
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Jt Sag at Skipton.
The Bradford Historical Society had its first excursion for
1890, on May 3rd, when over a hundred persons availed them-
selves of the opportunity of visiting Skipton Church and Castle,
under the guidance of Mr. W. Harbutt Dawson, the author of
the " History of Skipton," (Edmondson & Co.) To illustrate
Mr. Dawson's paper, we have added a large number of engrav-
ings, two of which are kindly lent by him, three by Messrs.
Edmondson, of the West Yorkshire Pioneer, Skipton ; five by our
printer ; ten by Mr. Townsend, of the Craven Herald, Skipton ;
the remaining sixteen are our own. Some of the blocks are
of early workmanship, but even these have a history to tell, in
themselves, of the progress that has recently been made in
book adornment. Mr. Dawson commenced as cicerone by read-
ing the following account of the Parish Church :
" To deal first with historical data. We are not justified in
believing that a church existed at Skipton before the Conquest.
The Domesday Survey, completed in the year 1086, at any rate
makes no reference to one. Robert de Romille, on whom the
Conqueror bestowed the honour of Skipton, was the original
founder of the church as he was of the castle. The earliest
mention of a church at Skipton is in the time of William de
Meschines, who married Cecilia, a daughter of Romille. In the
year 1120 this church, with the chapel of Carle ton and village of
Embsay, formed the endowment of the priory of Embsay.
How long the original Norman structure continued in use it
is impossible to say ; we know, however, that at the beginning of
the fourteenth century an enlargement took place. Before the
extension, the church was doubtless without the north and south
aisles, as well as the clerestory, and in length it cannot have
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extended beyond the fourth pier from the west end. At the be-
ginning of the fourteenth century a tower was probably added,
and aisles were attached to the north and south, and were con-
tinued as far as the western tower-wall. The sedilia in the
south wall must be referred to this period, probably also the
door in the north wall now walled up, and the recess near it
used for holy water.
Whitaker thinks the sedilia may be dated considerably earlier.
" These, if they have not been removed (of which there is
neither tradition nor appearance) will prove, first, that the
former church consisted of one, or at most of two, aisles only ;
secondly, that the whole choir of three aisles has been added to
the original building eastward, and the appearances of the
masonry confirm this supposition."
The church was considerably enlarged in the latter part of the
fifteenth century, when the choir (with aisles) was continued
to its present extent. Not only does the appearance of the
masonry support this, but the fact that upon his accession to the
throne in 1488, Richard III., who was for some time lord of the
castle and honour of Skipton, ordered the payment of £20 to-
wards the repair of the parish church here.
The stonework of the western portion of the church is clearly
shown by the north and south walls to be of much older date
than the eastern. Against each of these walls there are six
buttresses, and the westernmost three are far more massive
than the others, although that nearest what is now the vicar's
vestry appears to have been restored at a date not far distant.
Near the westernmost window of the north wall is a door- way
which has been walled up. This is evidently of old date. A
little farther a window-space, about five feet in height, and of
rectangular form, has also been closed. The tracery of the
north windows is in four styles, and the south wall furnishes
another. The western portion of the south wall, as of the
clerestory, it may be noted, is battlemented.
A vicarage was endowed here in 1826 by Archbishop Melton.
However a fonner endowment existed, for in 1267 a vicar was
instituted, and in Archbishop Melton's endowment the former
endowment is said to be insufficient. In early times there were
several charities here, and mention is made of the charities of
the Rood, of Our Lady, and of St. Nicholas.
In the time of the Civil Wars, Skipton church was greatly
damaged by the Parliamentary forces, but was repaired by Lady
Anne Clifford. Even before she began to restore the castle
Lady Anne turned her attention to the church. In her pri-
vate memorials Lady Anne refers to the repairing of the
church : — " In the Summer 1665, whilst she was at Appleby
Castle, at her own charge she caus'd the steeple of Skipton
church to be built up againe, which was pull'd down in the late
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Warrs, and leaded it over and then repaired some part of the
Church and new glaz'd the Windows, in every of which Window
she put quarries, stained with a yellow Colour, these two letters,
viz., A P, and under them the year 1655. . . . Besides she
raised up a noble Tomb of Black Marble in memory of her War-
like Father." Six of the original quarries inserted in the windows
still remain. During the siege of Skiptbn Castle in the same
wars, the steeple received very rough treatment. Whitaker says
that it was " nearly beaten down by random balls." No doubt
this statement is tolerably correct, for Lady Anne Clifford herself
speaks of causing " the steeple of Skipton church to be built up
again, which was pulled down in the time of the late wars," and
of leading it over. The Lady's act is recorded upon a tablet
affixed to the north-east pinnacle of the steeple.
Skipton Church and Castle.
The fine oaken roof is one of the most interesting features of
the church. It was constructed, it is supposed, ^n the time of
Richard III., and is nearly flat. Whitaker does not refer the
roof to so early a period, believing that it cannot be older then
Henry VIII.'s time.
The ancient screen is a beautiful piece of workmanship. It is
said to have come originally from Bolton. Prior to 1802, the
screen supported a handsome rood-loft, but in that year, the
east or organ gallery was erected, and the rood-loft was con-
sequently taken down and the screen moved forward. Formerly
the screen bore an inscription with the date 1538. It will
hardly be believed that when the church was restored in 1854-5,
the churchwardens had the screen removed, and but for the
entreaties of the architect and of some reverent worshippers it
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old have been banished from the church for ever. The late
. R. H. Sidgwick kept it in his safe possession for some time
» it had, against his protest, been taken down.
Che south porch was erected in 1866. Reference must be
de to the Clifford tombs, which help to make Skipton
ish church so exceptionally interesting to the antiquary,
talton Abbey was originally the place of interment for those
he Clifford family who died in this county. After the Dis-
ltion, however, the sepulchre was disused, and Skipton church
ame the burial place. Henry Lord Clifford, the " Shepherd
d," was the last Clifford interred at Bolton, and Henry first
*1 of Cumberland was the first interred at Skipton. Here
e been interred the bodies of five earls, three countesses, and
r earls' sons. The tombs stand within the communion rails,
are three in number, but there is also a mural tablet close
The tombs are those of (1) Henry, first Earl of Cumberland,
Margaret Percy, his wife ; (2) Francis, son of George Earl
Jumberland ; (8) Earl George. The tablet is to the memory
"rancis, Charles, and Henry, sons of Henry, last Earl of Cum-
and.
i the time of the Civil War, as I have said, the church
3red greatly at the hands of the Roundheads. During the
•s of the siege of the castle, or the years immediately follow-
most of the brasses upon the two tombs then in existence
that of George Earl of Cumberland was built by the Lady
ie Clifford in 1654) were displaced, and the tombs themselves
* damaged. Within late years, however, five of the original
ses have been found. They were discovered about 1850 in
Duse at Thorlby which was undergoing repairs. These
ses consist of the figure of the Trinity, and the second of the
; on the tomb of Earl Henry, and three shields on the altar
b. The brasses yet missing were replaced by the Duke of
onshire when he generously restored the tombs in 1867, at
>st of J61000. Fortunately, before the tombs were spoiled
ng the Civil War, Dodsworth, the eminent antiquary, had
ed the inscriptions. The tomb of Henry, first Earl of Cum-
ind, bears an inscription round the edge of the slab recording
leath in April, 1542. Upon the slab are effigies in brass of
earl and his wife. It will be noticed that he is clad in
Dur, and wears broad-toed sabatons. Round his left leg is
Garter, and his head rests upon a tilting helmet, with crest,
'vern sejant. His feet rest upon a greyhound. He carries
ord and dagger, and a cross suspended from his neck by a
n. At his feet is a shield within the Garter, Clifford impal-
the old Percy arms (for similarity, see also the arms of
npton). Over his head within the Garter are the Clifford
3. His wife Margaret, daughter of Percy, Earl of North-
erland, is represented reposing her head on a handsome
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pillow. Over her gown is a mantle bearing the arms of Clifford,
Percy and Lucy quarterly, Bromflete, old Percy (Plumpton),
Vesci, and Poynings. The mantle is attached by a cord from
the neck to the waist, and the two tassels hang near her feet,
which rest upon a dog, the token of fidelity. Above her are the
so-called Old Percy arms ; beneath her feet the Clifford arms
within the Garter. Upon a stone standing vertically at the head
of the tomb are brasses of Henry second Earl of Cumberland
and his two sons kneeling in tabards charged with the Clifford
arms, the Earl's impaling Dacre, and over their heads, as shown
in the figure, a scroll inscribed —
§'cta trmitas un' fpeu* mt«*xre nob*.
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Brasses, on Clifford Tomb in Skipton Church, of Sons and Daughters
of Clifford.
the right are his two wives and two daughters kneeling, one
>rged with Clifford impaling Dacre on her mantle, one with
(Ford, the daughters in plain gowns. On the scroll is —
<y}ater be cell* be* tnteeveve nob\
» central emblem indicates the Trinity ; and those at the
- corners represent the Evangelists. Beneath the figures we
I —
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ttxbexlanb anb &mt Ijtj* ttttjffe banQljtev of
llictrtx Sovfr J! acre of GMUcslanfr mijick) gptr
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genrtj btpavttb tijte life tkje tiglftl? haxje of gten-
uarie in it}* tjerc of our iorfr @ob mcxcccbex.
This slab was formerly concealed by the large tablet now in the
east wall, but in 1844 it fell down and exposed the original slab
to view. With the exception of the figure of the Trinity and
that of the second son, all the brasses upon this tomb are
modern restorations. A long inscription referring to Earl Henry
and his family will be found on the east wall.
At the head of the tomb of Earl Henry is an altar-shaped
tomb to the memory of Francis, son of George Earl of Cumber-
land. This Francis was scarcely six years of age at the time of
his death, which took place in December, 1589. Upon the slab
of this tomb are several brasses, three original. The brass
containing the original inscription was stolen with others, and
Lady Anne Clifford replaced it with another, now remaining.
The tomb of Earl George stands on the south side of the altar,
precisely opposite to that of Earl Henry. It is most elaborately
adorned with armorial bearings. Whitaker remarks — " I much
doubt whether such an assemblage of noble bearings can be
found on the tomb of any other Englishman." There are no
fewer than seventeen richly ornamented shields upon this tomb.
The tomb was erected by Lady Anne Clifford. I came across
the original agreement made for its completion at Skipton,
shewing that £20 was paid for polishing the marble slab and
lettering. It is entitled " Agree* with Jo. Ellis for finishinge
the Tomb att Skipton, all saue the Tombe-stone," and is dated
9th October, 1654.
A slab bearing a long inscription referring to Earl George will
be found on the east wall.
In the churchyard are several interesting tombstones, includ-
ing one in Latin to a member of the Longfellow family. By the
south-west buttress of the tower, indeed partially beneath it, is
an ancient tombstone. It is supposed that it was removed from
its original position at the extension of the old Norman church
and placed here. Near the porch is also a tombstone of ancient
date, but it is not inscribed in any way.
o
[Another gravestone records in Latin the death of Ann,
daughter of William West, of Eastby, gentleman, and Ann his
wife, obijt 7 die 9 bris, 1716, aetat 6 " Hie etiam jacet supra-
dictus Gulielmus West qui obijt 14° die Januarij, sepult 17° et
Anno Christi 1728° ^Statis suae 69° . In pace quiescat." Two
brasses are affixed on the stone to other members of the West
and Baynes families. Another stone states that Mr. John
Swire died November 20th, 1760, aged forty-eight. A stone
bears a Latin inscription to the memory of two children of
Jonathan Colton, who was " Schol. in hoc Oppido Grammat*
sub-praeceptor," nat. 1708 ; ob. 1778.
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As usual in churchyards, there are several instances of the
epitaph :
•" Affliction sore
Long time she bore
Physicians were in vain.
Till God did please
To give her ease
And cure her of her pain."
In one case there is a departure from the stereotyped form
though at the expense of mixing up the third and first persons
feminine :
M Affliction sore long time she bore
All human help was vain,
Till death gave ease and God did please
To free me from my pain.
From floods of tears, from ills and woes,
The Lord hath set me free
And crowned me with immortal bliss
A happy state for me."
Tufton. Tufton (Baronet.)
Clifford arms : chequy, or and azure, a fess gules.
Tufton arms : sable, an eagle displayed ermine within a bordure
argent.
Tufton arms, baronet : bordure wavy argent.
Eussell, Baron de Clifford : argent, a lion rampant gules on
a chief sable, three escallops of the first. Crest — A goat statant
argent, attired or. Supporters — Dexter a wy vern gules ; sinister
a monkey proper, ringed round the loins and chained or.
Coussmaker : quarterly, one and four, azure on a chevron be-
tween three mullets or, as many trefoils slipped vert : two and
three (for Southwell), vgent» three cinquefoils gules, on each
six annulets.
CHE- SARA-SARA
Russell— -Baron de Clifford.
Cavendish.
Southwell— Baron de Clifford.
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Southwell, Baron de Clifford : see two and three, Coussmaker.
Supporters, see Russell.
Cavendish : sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent, attired or.
Robert de Clifford, first Lord of Skipton, son of Roger, by Isabel
de Veteripont (Vipont), was slain at Bannockburn in 1814.
^ '
The Rev. P. C. Kidd, late vicar.
rge, Lord Clifford, thirteenth Lord, and third Earl of Cum-
rland, married Margaret daughter of Francis Russell, Earl
Bedford. Anne Clifford, their daughter, sole heiress, was
m at Skipton in 1589. She married the Earl of Dorset in
08-9, and the Earl of Pembroke in 1630. Her daughter
Etrgaret (by the first husband)), was eventually sole heiress,
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having married John Tufton, Earl of Thanet. The grand-
daughter of the sixth Earl of Tufton married in 1729, Edward
Southwell, M.P., but their grandson Edward, Baron de Clifford,
died without issue, and his niece, Sophia Goussmaker became
Baroness. Her grandson, Edward Southwell Bussell, is now
Baron de Clifford. Sir Richard Tufton, natural son of
Rev. H. L. Cook, present vicar.
Tufton, eleventh Earl of Thanet, was father of Lord Hothfield,
of Hothfield, Skipton, Appleby, and Brougham.
Henry Clifford, fifth Earl of Northumberland, nephew of George
the third earl, had an only daughter who married Richard
Boyle, first Earl of Burlington, whose descendant Charlotte
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Elizabeth Boyle, Baroness Clifford, married William Cavendish
Marquis of Hartington, fourth Dnke of Devonshire.
Lady Grisold, Countess of Northumberland, (mother of Henry,
Lord Clifford, the last Earl of Northumberland, Lady Margaret
Wentworth, and Lady Frances Clifton,) was buried at Londes-
borough in 1618.
Edmondson's "Baronage" gives forty-nine quarterings as belong*
ing to the baroness of Clifford in 1784, including
Tufton, Clifford, an augmentation, azure three
(chain shots) or ; Vipont, six annulets or, three,
two, and one.
The eight quarterings in our illustration are, Clifford, (Scu-
damore), Bromflete, Vescy, Flint (?), Vipont, Atton, St. John.
Notes, Ed.]
Quarterings used by Earls of Cumberland.
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®he Castl*.
Mr. Dawson's second paper was as follows : —
Regarding the
original castle of
Skipton two facts
may be taken as
certain: that Robert
de Romille, the
first Norman
grantee of the
honour of Skipton
was its founder, and
that it was built in
the last quarter of
the eleventh cen-
tury— that is, at
the end of the Con-
aeror's reign or the beginning of his successor's. Of the
mracter of the structure we cannot judge from the remnant
tat remains, and we must therefore assume the building to
ive followed the usual Norman style. The remains of the first
stle include, at most, the western doorway of the inner castle
Wiitaker : "the treble semi-circular arch supported upon square
ers ") and the dungeon. In Mr. Whitaker's opinion this
?stern doorway is the only remnant we have.
It is very probable that in the twelfth century Skipton Castle
s very roughly treated, if not indeed actually destroyed. The
untess of Pembroke records in her Memorials that Robert de
fford "was the chief builder of the most strong parts of Skipton
?tle, which had been out of repair and ruinous from the Albe-
r/es' time." Six Earls of Albemarle held the honour of
pton during the second half of the eleventh and the first
f of the twelfth century. That period was one of disquiet
bloodshed. Independently of constant struggles among
m selves, the barons were at continual variance with their
?s, and more than one of the Albemarles rebelled against
crown. It seems to me probable that Skipton castle was de-
yed during the time of William Fitz Duncan, who became lord
kipton in 1152. This Fitz Duncan was a nephew of David
* of Scotland, and he desolated Craven in 1188. Fourteen
s after (1152) he was established by his uncle in the honour
Sciptun and Crafna," and John, Prior of Hexham, records
-ding the struggle that took place at the time, that King
d " destroyed a small fortress built by the enemy." This
ass I take to mean Skipton castle, for cogent reasons which
mot advance here.
e *' chief builder " of Skipton castle (to use the words of
A ime Clifford,) was Robert de Clifford, who entered upon
.q. w
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the honour of Skipton in 1809. Clifford no doubt found the
residence which had stood since the time of the earlier Albe-
marles neither strong enough nor sufficiently pretentious for a
noble of his importance. The mode of warfare and the style of
military architecture were changing. It was during the reign of
Edward I. that round towers became fashionable, and after that
model Clifford began the erection of a fortress. It must be borne
in mind that the eastern part of the castle is of comparatively
modern date, having been erected in the sixteenth century. The
quadrangular court which is formed by a series of rectilinear
apartments, and into which the Norman arch opens, is known
as the Conduit Court, and is so called from the fact that the
conduit bringing the supply of water to the castle terminates
here. The thickness of the walls varies from nine to ten or
eleven feet.
Skipton Castle.
Not long after the re-erection of the castle by Robert de Clif-
ford, it was visited by royalty. Edward II. is known to have
been at Skipton on the 1st and 2nd of October, 1828, for several
royal mandates printed in Rymer's Fadera are dated from Skipton.
The same Edward was in Skipton in 1824.
The eastern portion of the castle, about sixty yards in length,
the terminating point of which is the Octagon Tower, is of date
much more modern than the western. It was built by Henry
the first Earl of Cumberland in 1586 for the reception of Lady
Eleanor Brandon, who married his son Henry Clifford in 1587.
This lady was the daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk,
and niece of Henry VIII., and it was in consequence of her high
rank that the Earl deemed this enlargement of his castle neces-
sary. The erection of this eastern part occupied no longer time
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than four or five months. The entrance at the western end of
the castle was built by Lady Anne Clifford after the siege of the
seventeenth century.
To the west of the castle stand the remains of what was once
the Castle Chapel. Whitaker supposes it to have been founded
by Alice de Romille. In Archbishop Holgatc's Return of Chan-
tries and also in an inspeximus of Henry Lord Clifford, dated
1512, the founder is said to have been an Earl of Albemarle.
The original shell of the building may yet be traced, although
additions have been made to it in modern times. Several win-
dows and the original door are easily distinguishable, while the
piscina still retains its position in the south wall. This sacred
building is now used as a stable !
Skiptou Church and Castle.
To refer to some of the characteristics of the castle as it is.
There is first the tower with the conspicuous motto " Desormais "
(Henceforth), twice repeated. In a moulding extending round the
parapet of the central chamber of the gate-house is an inscription,
taken from one of Horace's Odes, intended to perpetuate the
renown of George, Earl of Cumberland. Below •• Desormais "
and just over the gateway are the arms of Henry, fifth Earl,
with the initials H. C. and the fractured date 16—.
Right of the archway is the Shell House, so called because the
four walls of one of the lower rooms are decorated with sea shells,
Neptune being shown over the fireplace. Tradition says that
George, Earl of Cumberland, brought the shells home from one
of his expeditions.
• Passing through the modern entrance to the western portion
of the castle, we stand in a wide arched passage leading to the
inner court. Facing the doorway a staircase leads to a spacious
apartment used as the steward's office. The walls here are but
four feet thick, while those of the older portions are nine feet
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and upwards. Facing this staircase is another narrow one ok
stone. An ascent of eighteen steps brings us to what is known
as " Fair Rosamond's Liner Chamber," a strange title, seeing
that that Clifford died many years before Skipton Castle came
into the hands of her family. At the head of the passage can
be traced the groove in which a portcullis was worked. This is
by the side of the Norman arch, which Whitaker believes to be
the only vestige of the original castle. We now enter the Inner
or Conduit Court, which is tenanted by a ancient yew tree. Of
what age it is, cannot be determined with any degree of certainty.
Whitaker supposes it to have been planted here in the place of
one destroyed during the siege of 1642-5, but the conjecture is
perhaps a doubtful one. It is probable the tree is much older.
However that may be, it still continues to flourish, notwithstand-
ing the persistent unkindness of relic-hunters. Three particulars
of the castle are worthy of notice : (1) every one of its numerous
rooms has a separate level, that is, cannot be reached without
either going up or down a step or a series of steps. (2) Each room
has two doors, for egress in case of danger. (8) There were no
windows but such as faced the interior quadrangle. Many loop
holes have been made into windows in modern times.
The first door to the left of the courtyard leads to the dun-
geon reached by fifteen steps. This dungeon was doubtless
frequently used in olden times. As early as the reign of King
John prisoners for offences within the fee of Albemarle were
committed to Skipton Castle, and afterwards removed for trial at
York. Henry, first Earl of Cumberland, towards the close of
Henry VIII's reign, had amongst other prisoners a notorious
deer-stealer named West, of Grassington. It appears also from
records at Bolton that in 1559 one Francis May was imprisoned
in the castle for hunting at night in Skipton Park, but he es-
caped ; wherefore searching questions were sent, on the Earl of
Cumberland's behalf, to John Henry son, the gaoler.
Near the dungeon is another very interesting apartment. The
floor lies some four feet lower than the passage by which it is
approached. The present entrance, however, cannot be the
original one ; it must have been broken through the wall. The
condition of the passage wall and the direction in which a door
at the head of the passage has opened seem to support this view.
Furthermore, entrance to the room can only be gained, when a
temporary ladder is taken away, by a sheer jump of several feet.
The apartment is nearly circular, and is arched, and at the west
side a loop-hole, now filled up, can be detected. The room,
which is under the kitchens, is about eighteen feet in diameter,
and sixteen feet in height, although the proper floor is a little
lower than the present one. To the right of the entrance is a
perfect archway, some six feet high, going beyond the wall
several feet, Where this leads to is yet a mystery, but I cannot
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avoid coming to the conclusion that the room was originally
entered by this arch. Of coarse conjectures as to the use of
this place are abundant. Some hold that it was merely used in
•conjunction with the kitchen, others that it was a dungeon,
while another conjecture is that from this room in times of
danger a secret place of concealment was offered to the pursued ;
and yet another that the archway referred to is the head of a
subterranean passage of indefinite extent. The last conjecture
is unworthy of consideration. And though I should hesitate
before setting this down as one of the " secret chambers " which
are supposed to be appurtenant to every ancient fortress, it
seems pretty clear, both from its extreme height and the pecu-
liarity of ingress, that the room was not one for ordinary domes-
tic use. It is of evident antiquity. A little labour spent in
excavation here might yield very interesting results.
Returning from this gloomy cellar to the court-yard, we reach
the banqueting-hall, on the same side, by means of a flight of
steps. A door to the left leads to the spacious kitchen, where
are two or three good old-fashioned fireplaces. The banqueting
hall adjoins the withdrawing room, in which there is a large
window facing the mill and the Springs. The door leading out
of this room is of very modern construction. The original one
was in the centre of the wall facing the door from the banqueting
room, and was scarcely three feet wide. It opened into a
passage almost as narrow, from which it reached that famous
apartment — absent from no well-ordered castle — Mary Queen of
Scots' Room. I suspect that Queen Mary's visit is an imaginary
one. The Queen was, however, imprisoned in Bolton Castle,
Wensleydale. Very near this room is a spacious drawing-room,
which can also be reached from the court-yard. From this room
a door leads to the Muniment room, which is very rarely entered.
Here are drawers and chests full of unsorted documents relating
to the Cliffords, the Earls of Thanet, and the Craven estates.
From the drawing-room a bed -room is entered, which is lighted
from the court-yard. A passage leads into what is known as
the Watch Tower, so named from its being the highest of the
towers. Near this apartment is a staircase — the narrowest in
the whole castle. The entrance will scarcely admit the shoulders
of a man of even ordinary size, as it is not more than eighteen
inches wide. The staircase leads to another bedroom, in which
are four windows. From this room access is gained to the roof.
The first door to the right of the entrance to the court-yard
leads into a dark apartment in which there is a loophole, now
nearly concealed by a fireplace, Farther on, in the Watch
Tower, is the " guard-room," which commands a view of the
gateway, the castle entrance, and the bailey. There are here
three loopholes. Over several of the doors in the court-yard are
carved the arms and quarterings of the Cliffords. The eastern
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part was built in the sixteenth century, and contains beautiful
old tapestry; famous portraits, including those of Cromwell,
Lady A. Clifford, George, Earl of Cumberland; and other
objects of interest. In the Earl of TlmneVs bedroom the tapestry
designs are " Solomon passing his judgment,'1 " Queen Esther
and King Ahasuerus," and " Joseph and his brethren — the dis-
covery of the cup." In another bed-chamber — the one in which
the second Earl of Cumberland is said to have lain when in a
trance — the scenes pourtrayed are " An Eastern marriage,"
several New Testament incidents, and " Forest scenes." In the
drawing-room the " Four seasons " are beautifully represented.
The highest room of the Octagon Toner, known as the " State
Chamber," also contains some very curious tapestry work. The
" Siege of Troy " forms the subject of one portion, two forest
scenes occupy another side of the room, while the " Spanish
Inquisition " is a piece of work of very large dimensions.
o
[The original Clifford picture is at Appleby Castle, and the
Skipton copy is now at Hothfield. It was drawn up by the
accomplished Lady Anne, Countess of Pembroke. It is 8£ feet
high within the frame, and the two folding side pictures are
three feet ten inches wide. The frame is five inches wide.
The middle picture represents George Earl of Cumberland, his
countess holding in her left hand a book (Psalms), their eldest
son Francis, and their son Robert. The earl wears a blue sash,
and the garter is buckled round his left leg. A ring adorns the
thumb of the countess's right hand. Francis holds an ancient
shield, F., on which is a long biographical account of the two
boys. Three books, "Alkimee", "Senekae", the Bible, are shown
on a shelf. At A is inscribed a biographical account of the earl ;
at G, his arms within the garter ; B, is the portrait of Lady
Frances, wife to Baron Wharton, with inscription below ; C, is
the portrait of Anne, Countess of Warwick, with inscription ; Dr
is the portrait of Elizabeth, Countess of Bath, with inscription ;
E, Lady Margaret, Countess of Derby, with inscription. Around
the border of the centre picture, beginning at the bottom of the
left side is the pedigree, with shields, from Norman times. J is
a scroll containing a memoir of Roger de Clifford.
The left hand picture represents Lady Anne Clifford when
young. M contains a biographical account ; K, is the portrait
of Samuel Daniel, her tutor ; L, is Mrs. Anne Taylour, her
governess.
The right-hand picture represents the Countess Dowager of
Pembroke ; P, gives further biographical notices of her ladyship ;
N, is the portrait of the Earl of Dorset, her first husband ; 0,
that of Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, her second husband.
A full account of this genealogical work of art will be found
in the third edition of Whitaker's Craven.
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Of Skipton worthies of the present day, we have pleasure in
giving the portraits of Walter Morrison, Esq., of Malham Tarn
Walter Morrison, Esq., M.P.
House, the present M.P. for Skipton division (Liberal Unionist) ;
S. Cunliffe Lister, Esq., of Swinton and Manningham, who
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S. Cuuliffe Lister, Esq.
?ted as Conservative candidate for the division when first
d in 1885 ; and Sir Mathew Wilson, Bart., of Eshton
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Sir Mathew Wilson, Bart.
(Liberal), who gained the seat in 1885, and had previously
represented it and the rest of the North West Riding. A fine
statue of Sir Mathew stands near the Parish Church gate, at
the head of the Market Place, High Street.
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J. Conlthorst, Esq.
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Conservative Club.
J. Coulthurst, Esq., J.P., D.L.,
has served as High Sheriff of York-
shire. The pedigree of the family
will be found in Whitaker's Craven,
third edition. Mr. Coulthurst is
the president of Skipton Conserva-
tive Association.
The next portrait is that of the
president of the Skipton Liberal
Association, J. B. Dewhurst, Esq.,
J.P., and County Councillor, whose
great firm is known far and wide,
and whose beautiful factory is at
once an ornament and a Boon to
the town.
Coulthurst Arms.
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J. B. Dewhurst, Esq., J.P.
the important buildings that adorn Skipton we can only
iews of the Conservative Club, Christ Church, the Grammar
d1 and the Wesleyan Chapel, but many more should be
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Christ Church.
Grammar School.
In the Grammar School is deposited the remnant of the Petyt
Library, which belongs to the town, the gift of Sylvester Petyt,
Esq., whose portrait in oil may be seen in the parish church ves-
try. It is rich in seventeenth century volumes, but has been greatly
neglected in former years. There is a manuscript catalogue winch
reveals that many volumes are missing, and the town authorities
would do well to have a new catalogue made by an expert
bibliographer, and have the volumes placed where they will be
available as a reference library.
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Wesleyan Chapel.
are is an old-world quaintness still lingering about the
of Skipton, notwithstanding the great alterations made in
resent century. Its central importance in the old coaching
is represented by two direction boards near the church
: Settle 16 miles, Kendal 45, Lancaster 43 ; Knaresboro'
les, Harrogate 21, Ripon 80. Even the bellman, in his
ed coat, hat girdle, and scarlet waistcoat, has a glamour of
times. Two old views will show the reader what Skipton
riien the railway first reached it. There is now a fine new
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE
.RISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY'S, HONLEY;
By Mrs. Mary A. Jaoger. Continued from page 240.
e Inscriptions written in Latin on the old Church plate,
Tated, are as follows : —
l the large paten, — " To the glory and honour of God, for
)eople'8 convenience, and for the welfare of the Chapel of
ey, this piece of silver have the inhabitants presented,
her with the rest, for the constant celebration of the
larist."
i the small paten, — " Sacred to God and the Church, at
ost of the inhabitants. A.D. 1792."
i the chalice,—44 Honley Chapel, A.D. 1754."
itherthong and Crosland, though now separated from
ley with regard to Ecclesiastical matters, looked upon the
edifice with a little envy. When the natives of these two
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townships were returning home on a Saturday evening, or from
the far-famed Honley feast, they were wont to stand under the
Church wall and shout derisively at the new building. Then
farewell greetings were not at all respectful. They would ex-
claim— " We neither care for your new church, nor yet for your
grand steeple with its four clock faces, and your pinnacles ; *e
won you at York! we won you at York!" This pleasing
retrospect of their last victory so elated the natives of Cropland
that when they arrived at the bottom of the defile, known as
the " Sentry," the superfluous high spirits had to be let off.
Mag bridge divided the two townships, Honley and Crosland,
and this structure had to be the safety-valve ; for as a rule, the
coping stones on Honley side were toppled over into the water.
Honley resented this, and took the same trouble with the
coping stones on the other half belonging to Crosland. The
bridge stood almost as many sieges as Pontefract Castle, and
often was utterly dismantled, and dangerous to cross.
The new Church arose to its completion amidst many
difficulties; for there was carelessness and mismanagement
on the part of both Contractor and Clerk of Works. It required
all the activity, diligence, and ability of Mr. James Stocks, the
Churchwarden, to bring it safely through its various troubles.
The cost of the re-building of St. Mary's Church amounted
to over £4000. The following is a list of the donors, none
with the exception of two, any longer worshipping here in the
" Temple made with hands :" —
£ s. d.
The Ripon Diocesan Church Building Society ... 400 0 0
The Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth ... 820 0 0
Miss Mary Anne Armitage 500 0 0
William Brooke, Esq 600 0 0
Thomas Brooke, Esq 200 0 0
George Jessop, Esq. 150 0 0
Mrs. John Allen 100 0 0
John Brooke, Esq 50 0 0
Geo. Beaumont, Esq. 50 0 0
Mrs. Waddington 50 0 0
James Stocks 80 0 0
Honley Co-operative Society 24 6 0
Charles Brook, Edward Brooke, Enoch Vickerman,
Mr. Teale and Edward Lees, each £20 100 0 0
Godfrey Drake, Esq. 10 10 0
Miss Brooke, Miss E. Brooke, B. L. Shaw, Wm.
Wilkinson, Benj. Mellor, Joseph Haigh, John
Dyson, Thomas Dyson and Wm. Leigh Brook,
each £10 90 0 0
Joseph Milner ... 5 5 0
Thomas Schofield 5 5 0
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£ B. d.
Walter Piatt, Rev. C. Drawbridge, Mr. and Mrs.
Tidswell, W. Green Armitage, Wm. Leigh, Wm.
Drawbridge, Abraham Lit tie wood, George Lock-
wood, B. France & Son, Wm. Bottomley, Mrs.
Donkersley, B. Little wood, Joseph Littlewood,
Mrs. Eastwood, Charles Hallas, Miss Smith,
Bev. Geo. Hough and Mrs. W. Leigh, each £5 90 0 0
Smaller Subscriptions 42 17 10
Received for Vaults 20 7 10
Bank Interest 47 15 11
£2,785 6 7
William Brooke, Esq. made up the balance ... £1,484 11 8
Total Cost ... £4,219 18 8
In the summer of 1878, considerable improvements were
carried out. Previously, gas had been introduced. The Church
was cleaned and all the woodwork repainted. New systems of
ventilation and of heating by hot water were introduced. The
pews in the body of the Church were altered, so as to allow
kneeling more conveniently, and a wooden screen with folding
doors was thrown across the entire width of the Church at the
west end, as a protection from draughts. The total cost defrayed
by subscriptions and collections was £469. Mr. Thomas Farrar,
who was then Churchwarden, devoted much time and energy to
these alterations.
The Bells. — Two new bells and a clock were added to the
Church in 1885. The bells were supplied by Messrs. Taylor,
of Loughboro, and their cost was defrayed by public subscrip-
tion. The large bell weighs over one ton ; the small bell, five
cwt. They were dedicated to the service of the Church on
Sunday, October 25th, 1885. The morning preacher at this
interesting ceremony was the Bev. Canon Bardsley, vicar of
Huddersfield, and Rural Dean. His text was "They made
them golden bells." In the evening, the Rev. Canon Ingham
Brooke, Rector of Thornhill and Rural Dean, occupied the
pulpit. He preached to a crowded congregation from the text
44 Where art thou ? "
The new clock was supplied by Messrs. Potts, of Leeds ; and
the sole cost was defrayed by a lady parishioner. The old clock
had begun to exhibit signs of age, and was very erratic in its
moods, cold and changeable weather having a disastrous effect
upon its internal organisation. The new clock, which is a great
boon to the inhabitants, chimes the hour and half-hour; and its
deep rich sonorous tone sounds over hill and valley. The old
bell, which previously hung in the tower, has been transferred
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to the chapel in the Cemetery. On account of its cracked tone
it was re-oast in the year 1758, and bears that date. As previ-
ously stated, it is said that the old chapel was nick-named
" Old Peg," on account of the cracked tone of its bell ; but I
cannot Touch for the truth of this statement. Harsh or har-
monious as the tone may be, its death-toll has long sounded
down the valley telling of man's mortality. There is an old
custom associated with this bell that makes it interesting. The
custom may be only a relic of Popery, when people went to the
Old Oratory to be shriven ; but in our enlightened age we can
afford to forget that fact. I refer to the ringing of the " Pancake-
bell." Formerly, its first toll was the signal, that in Honley
all parish apprentices, as well as other apprentices to any
handicraft, were free from their master's control on that day.
Though freedom is not as pleasant as its sound, the apprentices
were wont to rush up Church Street with wild whoops of
delight, to salute the old bell and play sad havoc for the rest of
the day, chiefly kicking the football in the streets.
The ringing of the " Pancake-bell M is still kept up, and I hope
the day is far distant ere the time-honoured custom will be dis-
continued. On each Shrove-Tuesday, the children will rush
out of school, and with the trust of childhood, which even an
advanced education cannot altogether crush, look up at the
steeple with wistful earnestness, as if they expected the pancakes
falling down,— a belief not quite extinct in the village.
Baptisms and Marriages.
Previous to 1813 all baptisms and burials belonging to
Honley Parish are recorded in the Parish Church at Almond-
bury. The first baptism entered in the Honley register is thai
of Matthew Roberts, son of Charles Hallas, Clothier, LudhiH,
Deer. 18th, 1812. A license was granted on July 11th, 1887,
for the solemnisation of Marriages in St. Mary's Church, and
the first marriage that took place was on Dec. 3rd, 1887,
between Henry Beever, of Honley, and Anne Brooke, of Brock-
holes. Previous to this date, all marriages took place at
Almondbury. I have heard the description of the picturesque
bridal-train, as they set out from some hill-side home; the
lady decked in her bridal finery, mounted upon the pillion ; the
gentleman upon his good pack-horse, that for once was exoner-
ated from the prosaic duty of carrying pieces to Hudderofield
Market. The bright colours worn by those who accompanied
them, rivalling in appearance the bloom of the blushing gone
and heather, that they mayhap rode through. After the cere-
mony, the best mounted in the train would race back to the
village, the first to arrive having the honour of kissing the
bride. Old customs die hard, like the fox ; and many Honley
natives have had the same inclinations to wend their way to
Almondbury to perform this important ceremony.
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Again Honley people have been troubled with the disease of
restoration. The attack is so mild, however, that it has only
developed into " proposed alterations." I am glad to say that
the Church will not have to pass through the same fiery ordeal,
as many other luckless edifices have had to do.
At a public meeting of the Parishioners, held on Monday,
Deer. 20th, 1887, in the National School, it was resolved to
alter the interior of the present Church. A building com-
mittee was formed, and it was decided that Mr. C. Hodgson
Fowler, Diocesan Architect, Durham, should be intrusted
with the alterations. The organ is to be removed from the
West to the East end (its once original position). The high
singing-gallery is to be abolished ; and oak choir-stalls to be
substituted in the Chancel. The body of the Church will be
re-seated with open benches ; but not, I am glad to say, made
of the now hackneyed pitch-pine. The pews in the galleries
remain intact, but the fronts of the galleries are to be moved
further back. An improved system of heating and ventilation
is also to be introduced. A new pulpit and Lectern is to
take the place of the present pulpit, reading and clerk's desk.
Captain Jessop and Miss Siddon intend to present the Church
with the new pulpit, in memory of the departed ones of
their family. The three large East windows of transparent
glass are to be replaced by memorial-windows. These windows
are to the memory of the late Mr. Thomas Brooke, of Northgate
House, placed there by his family. No words of mine are re-
quired to bring to memory the noble traits of this good man.
I can only say of his deatb, what David said of Abner's death,
"that a great man had fallen in Israel," and my readers will
echo this. The subjects of the middle window are the Birth
and Crucifixion of our Lord, and of His being seated at God's
right hand after His ascension. The two side windows contain
illustrations from the Te Deum.
Near upon a thousand pounds, the proceeds of a bazaar, the
subscriptions of the members of the congregation, and dona-
tions from outside Churchmen, have already been collected and
promised for the proposed alterations. Other gifts for various
purposes have also been promised. A surpliced Choir of men
and boys is to take the place of the present mixed choir, one of
whom, Miss Brooke, of Northgate House, has faithfully per-
formed her voluntary duties as leading Soprano for 22 years.
In closing this account of our church, I can only hope that
the poor memorial will be received in the same spirit that it is
written: to the memory of those who ought to have "the
pleasing tribute of a Sigh."
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Witty Doctor. — (Page 298). Archbishop Mountain was
appointed to the See of York, 1628. It is therefore clear that
Charles I. was then reigning and not George II. F.G.
Denison. — Wanted baptismal register of John Denison, who
was residing at Pontefract from 1750 to 1789, and his marriage
certificate to Miss Hagar or Eager. N.
Denton Beoisteb. — In your notice of Oainford Register,
(p. 290), it should have been stated that Mr. Walbran tran-
scribed Denton Register, and had eight copies printed by Mr.
W. Harrison, Ripon. See Mr. Walbran 's History of Gainford.
Denton is a chapelry in Oainford parish. £.
Kildwick. — Few Yorkshire people pass through Kildwick
Railway Station without making a remark on this name,
" killed- wick," that is, " killed-alive ;" and especially since the
railway accident here a few years ago. The false explanation
comes more readily than the real one "The wyke of Kilda,
or Childe." Archil held Ghildeuuic, Gamel had Fernehil,
Ravenchil owned Sutun, Torchil had Cutnelai (or Cononley),
Gamelbar held Esebrune, whilst Bradelai was held by Archil,
Torchil, and Gamel, under the King, in 1085. " Chil" forms
part of the name of three owners, and probably all the five
were descendants of Childe, whose name is associated to-day
with this extensive Airedale parish. Very shortly these pos-
sessions were annexed to Skipton under Robert de Romille.
Gislebert Tyson held Estbrune, and also Stiueton (Steeton),
which previously belonged to Gamelbar, and also Glusebrun
and Chelohis (Melsis), which Gamel had held ; whilst Osbern
de Arches held Siglesdene (Silsden). William de Percy got a
part of Gamel's lands in Glusebrun and Ghelchis.
Kildwick Church is one of the two in Craven mentioned in
Domesday. It, with the village and manor of Kildwick, was
given by Cecilia de Romille to the priory of Embsay, afterwards
Bolton. Robert Wilkinson and Thomas Drake, two Halifax
men, obtained Kildwick at the Dissolution of Monasteries, and
Drake alienated the manor, in 2 Edw. VI., to John Garforth,
of Farnhill, from whom it passed by purchase, 1 Eliz., to Henry
Currer, Esq.
Kildwick Hall is sheltered from the east wind, and commands
a fine prospect of Airedale, the river winding between high
embankments, a clear, undented stream. Abandoned river-beds
tell tales of ancient floods, and changes of course. Whitaker
gives a full list of Vicars since 1272. The Church is 176 feet
long, and is generally spoken of as the Lang Bark of Craven.
It was rebuilt in Henry VIII 's. reign, and consists of nave, and
north and south aisles. In the outer north wall may be seen
some big, unshapely blocks of stone. The east window was
erected in 1854 by W. Bradley Wainman, of Carr-heai, to the
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Sir Robert de StWeton.
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memory of three of his children. There are seven lights, the
figure of the Saviour in the centre, two evangelists on each side,
Peter and Andrew at the extremities. At the east end of the
north aisle is the Gurrer chapel, and at the east end of the
south aisle is the Horsfall, or Malsis chapel, the Horsfalls hav-
ing owned Malsis before the Spencers, whose vault is below,
and to whom (the Spencers) a stained window and mural tablet
have been erected. In the chancel is a stone bearing the
inscription — "Hie jacet Willielmus Horsfall, mercator Londin-
ensis .... 1668, August." The Horsfalls' arms, three
horses' heads, but no bezant, are cut at the head of the stone.
On the top, right corner of the shield is a crescent. The re-
gister records his burial thus: — Gulielmus Horsfall, marctor
Londinensis, de Malsis Hall in Sutton, bur. 26 Aug. 1668. In
the north aisle is a gravestone with Calvary Cross. There are
several mural tablets, and brasses to Joseph Heaton, .Weinmans,
Smiths, Ianson, Holmes 1728 (a fine one with carved oak frame).
The memorial windows are to the memories of the Rev. Thomas
Marsden; the children of Thomas Bairstow; Thomas and
Richard Robinson and Robert Smith ; Richard Hartley ; Joseph
Heaton ; Maria Sarah Marsden, ob. 1871, aged 71 ; and Rev. J.
T. C. Fawcett, M.A., 24 years vicar, died 26th Aug., 1867,
erected by parishioners and friends. In the chancel is an old
oak box, like a coffin, used for storing choir music. An old
oak pew, 1683 E.E., and another, 1681, are worthy of note.
The font is over four hundred years old. It is octagonal, hav-
ing sculptured on the sides (1) gt. j)» ©«, (2) f#U» (8) reed
and sponge in saltire, (4) two whips in sal tire, (5) three nails
and two dice, (6) sword and torch in saltire, (7) hammer and
pincers, (8) !*♦ ©♦ $♦ $» An old font cover was broken
up and made into chairs, and a new carved oak one has
been lately substituted. The tomb of Sir Robert de Steeton
is a great attraction. He died in 1807, and his effigy has
been well preserved, see the illustration herewith. On both
sides is a modern inscription — Robertus de Styveton obiit
a.d. mcccvii, and at the foot the words — Renewed by sub-
scription, 1854. In the windows of the north aisle are several
shields of arms, ancient and modern. On the huge stone clock
face of the tower is painted — "The gift of William Currer,
Esq., of Steeton, late citizen of London, 1709. Renewed
by subscription 1828." The horse-steps and remains of the
stocks near the gate, and the old coach-house are mementos of
early times. The registers reach back to 1575, and amongst
the burial entries is one to a person aged 112, I am told. The
first book is beautifully written, but the second volume, 1626, is
a gem. They are about the finest and best preserved I have
seen. The oldest dated gravestone now remaining in the yard
is to Mary Craven, of Bradley, 1672. Near the s.w. door is one
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" to the memory of the Rev. Mr. Robert Hargreaves, late curate
of Todmorden, in Lancashire, died Aug. 6, 1770, aged 77. He
was born in Farnhill, and was only son of Mr. James
Hargreaves, an eminent tradesman/' (At Farnhill lived
Turner the soldier, whose fame is recorded in a local book on
natural history, in a series of oil paintings in the possession of
a descendant at Bradford, for having slain a tiger in India, and
old people remember the travelling exhibition of Turner and
the tiger.) In the chancel are stones to commemorate William
Bawdwen, Esq., of Stone-gap, who died Jan. 22, 1776, aged 55,
and Roger Coates, Esq., of Kildwick Grange, who died March
17, 1660, aged 41. Of the intermarriages of the Coates, Swires
and Horsfalls, we have not space to write at present. A tablet
bearing arms, is erected to the memory of Samuel Swire, Esq.,
of Cononley, died May 5, 1763, aged 62 ; Elizabeth his wife,
died April 12, 1790, aged 85 ; rtoger their son, died Jan. 22,
1778, aged 42, and Elizabeth his wife, died July 18, 1773, aged
48. Close to the south wall of the church is an inscription as
follows : — " This stone rescues from oblivion the memory of
Thomas Wade, of Silsden moor, who after a life of plainness,
uprightness and temperance, died Feb. 11, 1810, in the 103rd
year of his age." With notes from three more gravestones (at
the east end,) we will conclude. (1) Thomas, eldest son of Rev.
Thomas Marsden, Vicar of Kilawick and Skip ton, died 14
March, 1850, aged 54. Maria Sarah, daughter Rev. Thomas,
died 17 Oct., 1871, aged 71. Henry Horner Granger, 6urgeon,
Skipton, grandson of Rev. Thomas, died 17 Oct., 1878, aged
64, and Elizabeth, relict of H. H. O., died 14 July, 1888, aged
75. (2) Rev. Mr. John Topham, late vicar, died August 5,
1788, aged 61. (8) Thomas Dewhurst, of Sutton, died Nov.
29, 1755, aged 81 ; a descendant of Thomas Dewhurst, late of
London, minister. Mrs. Ann Dewhurst, of Sutton, died Nov.
15, 1758, aged 72, mother of above-said Thomas Dewhurst, of
Sutton, and relict of above Thomas Dewhurst, late of London,
minister. (It is marvellously true to name a son a descendant.)
The Garforth or Garthford family have resided at Steeton more
than three centuries, one of whom was vicar of Kildwick in
1659, and of Gargrave in 1667. The Plumptons held the
manor of Steeton after the Steetons, and most of the manor
was acquired by the Garforths in 1600-4.
Into* iSominum*
Allen, 10, 13, 14.
Aram, 54, 55, 306.
Arches, 360.
Archil, 360.
Arlush, 50.
Armytage, 7, 10, 15.
Bailey, 180.
Beaumont, 65, 96.
Bevors, 6.
Boardingham, 1.
Booth, 34.
Boynton, 100, 251.
Brigg, 88.
Brierley, 57.
Bronte, 49.
Credmon, 52.
Calverley, 5.
Canute, Cnnt, 187, 241.
Cave, 254.
Cavendish, 332.
Childa, 360.
Clarebro', 6.
Clifford, 325, 345.
Coates, 361.
Collyer, 85.
Colton, 330.
Cook, 334.
Copley, 168.
Coulthurst, 349.
Cowper, 6.
Crawshay, 30, 203.
Crossley, 32.
Cunliffe, 254.
Currer, 360, 361.
Denison, 360.
Dewhurst, 350, 362.
Dickenson, 34.
Dixon, 16.
Dove, 140.
Downes, 7.
Doyle, 51.
Drake, 360.
EUah, 202.
EUand, 292.
English, 253.
Fawkes, 208.
Federer, 56.
Fitzhugh, 103.
FitzwilUam, 10, 12, 14.
Foljambe, 19.
Forshaw, 143.
Frobisher, 66.
Gamel, 360.
Gamelbar, 360.
Gargrave, 119.
Garforth, 362.
Gent, 56.
Gould, 271.
HargreaTes, 361.
Hildyard, 176.
Hill, 7.
Hilton, 179.
Hinchliffe, 253.
Horsfall, 254, 361.
Hunter, 252.
Ismay, 65, 253.
Jackson, 28.
Jenkinson, 116.
Jennings, 254.
Jollie, 40.
Kay, Key, 5, 6, 196.
Kendrew, 68, 202.
Kidd, 333.
Kilner, 252.
Lang, 208.
Langfellow, 18.
Lanchester, 252.
Linton, 141.
Lister, 347.
Logan, 253.
Maister, 180.
Mangery, 48.
Mawd, 23.
Marsden, 361.
Marvel, 176.
Metcalfe, 55, 80.
Middleton, 21.
Mirfield, 109.
Monceanx, 99.
Morris, 142.
Morrison, 346.
Mountain, 298, 360.
Nowell, 53.
Osborne, 291.
Peel, 56.
Percy, 360.
Petyt, 852.
Pritchett, 122.
Batcliffe, 6.
Ravenchil, 360.
Rayner, 6, 98.
Riley, 51.
Rokeby, 290.
Rollit, 181.
Romille, 360.
Rotherfields, 105, 107.
Saville, 5, 120, 168.
Dee, «r«/>
Settle, 98.
Shepherd, 7.
Sbipton, 54, 82.
Sill, 6.
Skelton, 6.
Somester, 5, 6.
Spencer, 361.
St. Qointin, 102.
Steeton, 361.
Storr, 101.
Strafford, 292.
Stranbenzie, 7.
Sunderland, 98.
Swinglehurst, 33.
Swire, 362.
Sykes, 169.
Taylor, 271.
Topham, 362.
Torchil, 861.
Tufton, 331.
Turner, 252, 362.
Turton, 141.
Tyson, 360.
Ulf, 139.
Wade, 362.
Wainman, 360.
Walbran, 290, 360.
Warburton, 244.
Watson, 66.
Waugh, 1, 7.
Webster, 294.
Wentworth, 117, 292.
West, 330.
Wheelwright, 817.
Wild, 140.
Wilkinson, 50.
Wilson, 35, 348.
Wordsworth, 257.
Worral, 62.
Torke, 306.
Mnbtx Jtatatmn.
Aldborough, 138.
Arthington, 62.
Askrigg, 258, 294.
Bacup, 87.
Burden, 266.
Barmston, 98.
Barnoldswiok, 33, 84, 37.
Barnsley, 163.
Bedale, 64.
Bolton, 263-5.
Bradford, 53, 272.
Bradley, 360.
Brandesbnrton, 102.
Brighouse, 295-304.
Brimbam, 308.
Cawthorne, 292.
Ohapeltown, 269.
Chiirwell, 270.
Gononley, 360.
Danby, 62.
Darlington, 128.
Doncaster, 272.
Dovecote-gill, 189.
Drigblington, 180.
Dumb-steeple, 49.
Easby, 50.
Easingwold, 64.
Eastbnrn, 360.
Elland, 292.
Embsay, 362.
Farnbill, 362.
Fewston, 269.
Filey, 56.
Flambro', 62.
Fnlford, 132.
Fulneck, 142.
Gainford, 290, 360.
Gallowbill, 252.
GilderBome, 35.
Goodmanbam, 182.
Gordale, 261.
Gowtbwaite, 306.
Goy don-pot, 315.
Granny-ball, 97.
Grindleton, 57.
Halifax, 124, 262, -294,
817, 319.
Harrogate, 52.
Hardraw-scar, 259.
Helmsley, 208.
Hillhouse, 164.
Hilston, 101.
Hipperbolme, 295-304.
Holling-baU, 18, 251.
Honley, 193, 238, 355
359.
Howden, 50, 62.
Howley, 104.
How-stean, 813.
Huddersfield, 10, 15.
HnU, 101, 172, 207, 252.
Hnmber, 204.
Hunslet, 268.
Hnnton, 252.
Bkley, 138, 250.
Ingleborougb, 16, 65.
Keigbley, 87, 145, 225.
Kildwick, 360-2.
Kilnsey, 257.
KnareBbro', 63, 66, 134,
262.
Leeds, 48, 64, 141, 169.
Lightcliffe, 122.
Malbam, 260.
Malsis, 360-2.
Melbeeks, 271.
Mexborough, 252.
Middlesmoor, 316.
Millsbaw, 253.
Mirfield, 64, 253.
Mount Grace, 52, 61.
Morley, 117, 268.
Nidderdale, 805.
Northallerton, 141.
Nunbuxnholm, 181.
Ossett, 141.
Otley, 64, 253.
Owram(North), 298-304.
Pateley-bridge, 305.
Pontefract, 206.
Pudsey, 127.
Bastrick, 295-304.
Rawden, 87.
Ravensthorpe, 126.
Beetb, 131.
Richmond, 50, 258.
Bipon, 161.
Rishworth, 317.
Riveaux, 260.
Rodhill-end, 35. 37.
Rotherham, 165.
RothweU, 270.
Roundhay, 269.
Rowley, 251.
Ryedale, 138.
Rylston, 266.
Saddleworth, 142.
Saltburn, 125.
Saxton, 273.
8carbro\ 162.
Sedbergh, 190.
Belby, 123.
Semerwater, 54.
Settle, 51.
Sheffield,40,166,167,253.
Shelf, 131.
Sherburn, 208, 273.
Shipley, 256.
Silsden, 360.
Skipton, 322-355.
Skipae*, 269.
Sproatley, 267.
Stamford, 85.
Stanbury, 231.
Steeton, 360.
Sutton, 87, 860.
Todmorden, 63.
Wakefield, 1,5, 136, 202,
294.
Warley, 62.
Washburn, 58.
Wath, 290.
Whitby, 128, 252.
Wilsden, 290.
Winestead, 173.
Winteringham, 267.
York, 1, 63, 187, 202,
207, 241, 269, 273.
Yorkshire, East, 205,255.
Yorkshire, West, 3.
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